08-14-2022, 08:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2022, 10:01 PM by slate. Edited 1 time in total.)
Quote:12. Choose a team or player to write about that isn’t your own. What did they do well in the last season? Have they shown any drastic improvements from previous years? What could they do better?
While this is probably a very easy way to answer this question, I will write about the team that my former player spent their entire career on - the Sarasota Sailfish. In Season 35 of the International Simulation Football League (which astute readers may notice is the season before this most recent season), the Sailfish snapped an 11 season long playoff streak by losing the final four games of the season and finishing at 7-9, the second worst record in the NSFC. Given the large number of various unfortunate circumstances which coincided to result in this disappointing turn of events, I think that many teams would have felt deflated and let the end of the streak signal a transition for the team and need to change their approaches.
The Sailfish, on the other hand, were resilient. Under the steady leadership of @abh89 and @Fronk and the positive and upbeat locker room environment that has come to characterize their Sailfish since their founding in Season 22, they took the bad luck in stride, grieved the loss of the streak, and then resolved and energized themselves to come back swinging in Season 37. The team's offense, already sparked by the addition of Nicholas Kaepercolin Jr. through a trade the previous season, quickly announced that it had taken another step forward as they put up 45 and 48 points in two of their first four games. The team ended up leading the league in both scoring offense and scoring defense, putting up 28.8 a game while allowing only 19.2. While they were unable to wrest the 1st seed away from Chicago, they were able to beat them away in a resounding 22-2 victory in the NSFCCG, shutting out the #2 scoring offense in the league on the road. While they ultimately fell 3 points short in the Ultimus to a stacked Honolulu team, the team made huge strides forward from the previous season and should be the team to beat in the NSFC just 2 seasons after their disappointing streak-ending season. Quite the turnaround!
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Quote:28. Choose one existing award. Tell us why you think a certain player should win that award this season. Stats, or anything else possible should be used to support your case. (Written or Graphic Task)
While positional awards have gone away this season in favor of the All-Pro teams, I think it is still an interesting conversation to have to recognize who is the singular best player at a given position. For some positions, that is obvious, but for others, there are several players one could make a case for.
I would like to share my case for why Sarasota wide receiver Nicholas Kaepercolin Jr. was the best WR in the league in 2050. While he ranked only 5th in yardage, Kaepercolin Jr. set a league record for receiving TDs in a season with his 18 surpassing the previous record established in S9! To his detriment, he also saw a huge number of targets in the SAR Raid offense, with his 176 targets coming in 2nd to league receiving yard leader Johnny Patey. The huge number of targets also means that his advanced stats, like yards/target, aren't quite on par with some other receivers - notably, Bernd D. Brot, Cole Maxwell, and Vincent Sharpei Jr. all surpassed 10 yards per target, while NKJ lagged behind at 7.9.
With all of that said, I think NKJ was still the most exceptional WR of the year thanks to his record-breaking performance. In addition, NKJ converting over 10% of his targets into TDs was well ahead of the pace of other top WRs, so it was not just that he was scoring lots of TDs thanks to the passing volume directed at him. And he passed the eye test as well, with NKJ frequently making important plays for the Sailfish despite his on-paper inefficiency.
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Quote:30. Affiliate PT from either SHL/PBE/WSBL. The Weeks must match with the timeframe of this Offseason Task. And you may only use a max of 1.
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