(S37) Offseason Task

[Jimi64]

8. Pilot RedSun would win the award for winner of the league wide staring contest. RedSun is a stoic man that says little, and when he is on the sidelines, he often simply stands like a statue, with his arms crossed, watching the action on the field without a hint of emotion. He does not appear to speak to anyone, he simply stares. At the annual ISFL Staring Contest Competition, in each round he would strike the same pose. Arms crossed, eyes staring without emotion. After each competitor would finally blink, he wouldn’t even move from his spot or stop staring. He would not give his eyes a break, and perhaps he didn’t need to. Some were questioning if he even knew he was in a staring contest: nobody recalled him signing up or saying he would play, he simply showed up. Due to him not adjusting his position, some believed that RedSun had made a fatal mistake. The competition was taking place outside, and RedSun was facing west. As the day went on, by the time of the championship round, the sun would be facing brightly into his eyes. Either RedSun would be forced to blink for the first time today, or the more unthinkable would happen: he’d have to move. However, in the championship round against newly drafted cornerback Tingis Pingis, Redsun did not flinch, and in fact won easily. The reflection of the sun in Redsun’s eyes was enough to make Pingis easily falter. After he was congratulated and most people went home, some people reported seeing RedSun…taking out his eyes? They were then put into a case made for glass eyes. Could he be blind? Then how could he play offensive line? Of course, these are unsubstantiated rumors, simply whispers. The odds of RedSun playing with glass eyes and using that to essentially cheat in a staring contest is too weird to be true, right? Regardless a new trophy would sit next to the Ultimini trophy in RedSun’s home. One would expect more to join them.

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9. As commissioner, I would make a change to the Most Dedicated Member award. I think it could potentially be an interesting change that does even more to highlight the amount of good users in the league if we based it more off of the NFL’s style of the Walter Peyton Man of the Year award. To copy that style, each team in the ISFL would nominate one player on their team to be considered for Most Dedicated Member. These users would be revealed earlier in the season than usual, potentially about halfway through the regular season. This would include a media post issues by the league with a list of the members that incudes write ups from the GM’s (or others, such as a user that was highly positively impacted by the nominee’s actions) that describe why that user should be considered Most Dedicated Member. In the NFL, the Man of the Year award is considered (by the NFL PR team, not the general public) to be the most prestigious award for a player to receive, and the player then receives a patch on their jersey to signify them winning the award. It could be a nice change to display that award as a trophy on a player’s profile. I would not change this to be for any award, just the most dedicated member award (otherwise we’d easily reach oversaturation). Maybe they could get their name in a special color on the forums, as well as a special role in the general ISFL server. Emphasizing this award more would be a good move to promoting the type of dedication that is needed to continue a high level of functioning that the league maintains. Or it could just promote being a good person on the forums and on discord. Oh and I would also make offseason task/Ultimus week worth 12 points. It’s 4 PT’s worth of writing so it should be 12 TPE. I’ve fought this battle for a long time.

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[JoshiePoo]

Option 1:
The Honolulu Hahalua scored back to back ‘ships this year after taking down the Sarasota Sailfish in the 2051 Ultimus. With an impressive 11-5 record, Honolulu controlled the ASFC from start to finish, ending the season with a dominant 9-3 conference record. Their 423 points for and 311 points against both lead the ASFC, making the Hahalua one of the most efficient teams on both sides of the ball. Yet many of their individual stats don’t jump off the board at you, which is curious for a two time, back to back Ultimus winning squad.

We’ll begin with the offense, and who better to start with then the play caller himself, QB Dexter Zaylren. After a stellar 2050 season, Zaylren returned with an efficient 2051 season for the manta rays. He threw for 3334 yards on 306 completions with a 62.3% completion percentage. A 31:10 TD to INT ratio also contributed nicely to Honolulu’s success in the regular season, with Zaylren being tied for lowest INTs on the year. In the receiver room, 3 guys held down the fort for the Hahalua. WR Sal Ami led the team with 1099 yards on 77 receptions, with an astounding 15 TDs, for an almost 20% TD percentage. That’s right, every fifth ball that Ami halued in was caught for a TD, and he finished second in the league in TDs. Ami was supported by WRs Bayley Cowabunga and rookie Leek Mai-Heinous who both had respectable numbers on the year. Cowabunga brought down 65 catches for 740 yards and 2 TDs. LMH also had 740 yards, on 67 catches this time, and added 8 TDs of his own to the mix. In the back field their premier back and team captain Buffalo Hunter averaged 4.6 yards on 379 carries for 1736 yards on the season, good for third best in the league. Hunter was supported by the aging Goat Tank, who had 918 yards of his own on 226 carries, with 9 TDs to add to Hunter’s 8 TDs.

On defense Honolulu had some spectacular star power show up both during the regular season and the playoffs. We’ll start with on-ball LB Big Slammu, who had a career year, racking up a league leading 20 sacks, 130 tackles, 17 TFLs, 5 forced fumbles, and 7 passes defended on his way to winning the Defensive Player of the Year. Just an incredible year from Slammu, who was instrumental in shutting down opposing offensive gameplans and bringing the Hahalua to the top defense in the ASFC. On the other side of the line was LB Xavier Walls, who complemented Slammu nicely to the tune of 90 tackles, 8 TFLs, 12 sacks, 4 forced fumbles, 2 interceptions, and 7 passes defended. On the outside CB Lip Gallagher terrorized opposing QBs with 102 tackles, 8 interceptions, and 32 passes defended. Gallagher’s 8 picks were good for second in the league, and he added on an absurd 4 defensive TDs to his campaign.

In the postseason Honolulu matched up against division rival and longtime foe Arizona in the conference championship game, in their third such matchup in 3 seasons. Arizona was led by QB Wendell Sailor and league MVP RB Jay Cue Jr. The game was close from the outset, with the teams trading blows well into the 4th quarter. With 1:50 left on the clock and a score of 28-21 HON, CB Miles Weperom jumped on a ARI WR Captain Billy Stinkwater route and pulled in the INT, returning it 61 yards to the house to ice the game for Honolulu. The Hahalua would go on to win 38-21 and advance to their third Ultimus in three years, with a chance to go back to back.

A scary Sarasota Sailfish team awaited Honolulu in the Ultimus, led by first team All-Pro and league leading passer QB Carter Knight. The Ultimus came down to the wire, with Sarasota leading 28-24 going into the finals minutes of play. But the two minute drill from Honolulu was simply too much for the Sailfish to handle. Zaylren drove his team methodically down the field, before finding LMH on a 35 yard route in the endzone for the lead and the Ultimus victory with only 1:19 left! Zaylren was excellent in the Ultimus with 261 yards and 4 TDs. But the big story was the three INTs from the Honolulu defense, including two from Lip Gallagher to shut down the star power of Carter Knight. Back to back ‘ships, incredibly impressive, can they go for three?
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[Dagumpa]

PBE PT

[QuirkyTurtle]

Tier 3. 25. +2.5
If Cornerback was not an available position to choose, then I think I’d like to play running back. Firstly, I chose cornerback as my previous career was at wide receiver and so I wanted to try out he defensive side of the ball. See if I could rack up them PDs and interceptions, and also because it is always a needed position amongst teams much like wide receiver. However, if I had to choose a different position it’d be running back. It’s a highly competitive position, much like Quarterbacks, and there are fewer spots to fill, but I enjoy the fantasy football side of things and being an offensive player allows me to be included in that arena where I could pick myself and have even more reason to score TDs. I think perhaps once Jimmy Jeeta retires after a long and successful career, I’ll recreate at RB and give it a go. Perhaps a Jeeta Jr will enter the mix.

Tier 3. 27. +2.5
There are actually a few teams I think have incredible branding. One of my favourites would be the Yellowknife Wraiths. I think the colour scheme of Black, white and sky blue is such a good one, especially with black as the main colour. The logo also looks professional and intimidating and sits really well on a helmet or jersey. The other logo I am very fond of is the Bondi Beach Buccaneers. That’s not really much of a surprise as it’s another skull logo. Perhaps Im just into skull logos. But like the yellowknife Wraiths, the Bondi Beach logo its very professional and intimidating and sit beautifully on a helmet or jersey. One logo I take some issue with, not that its my least favourite or anything, and its odd for me to criticize this logo since I’m the one who designed it, but the Berlin Fire Salamander logo could do with a revamp in my opinion. While from a outside stance, I do think it’s looks pretty cool, and the colours obviously work well for a german based team, but it’s missing that something that allows for it to look like a professional football team logo that can be displayed on their helmet. Just an opinion though, as I know it’s received a lot of praise from the community in the past.

Tier 2. 10. +5
Jimmy Jeeta’s story begins all the way across the seas in little old Britain. He is the second youngest of 7, with one of them being his elder brother Eddie Jeeta, who made it all the way into the ISFL league to play with the Austin Copperheads as a wide receiver. It was a very exciting time to be a ISFL fan in the UK, as the very year Eddie Jeeta would get drafted into the DSFL, the league had two new expansion teams, with one being a team for London. Eddie would play 9 seasons in the ISFL before retiring and Jimmy always knew he would follow in his brothers footsteps. Only while Eddie would excel as a receiver, Jimmy would excel on the opposite side of the ball at Cornerback. Growing up in a small town in Watford, with the guidance of an awe inspiring Eddie, Jimmy and his friends would learn the game of football and would play in the streets every chance they could. Thanks to the Jeeta genes, much like his brother, Jimmy would grow tall to 6’2 with long arms, perfect for your prototypical ISFL player. Jimmy spent a lot of his time playing wide receiver like his older brother, and learning from him. However he’d end up using this knowledge to help his corner game, and would eventually decide to play defence. Once grown up, and making a name for himself, Jimmy would receive a scholarship to Clemson University over in the States. He’d spend 3 years there fighting for that coveted CB1 role on the team. Jimmy would reach CB1 in his junior year and found a lot of success. He would get 50 tackles, 2 TFLs, 12 PDs, 6 INTs, and 2 TDs that final year. He then decided I was time to declare himself for the S37 DSFL Draft and move on to the next step to entering the ISFL.

[TheDangaZone]

SHL PT for minimal tpe

[AW13]

Purchased OT Pass

[37thchamber]

8. With awards season upon us, make up an award for your player win for something not on the football field? (300 words)

Obviously the award is for the best ostrich racer. Remi wins this without breaking a sweat. You talk about his size being a factor, and that he was much smaller when he raced previously... did you not consider that he could trim back down to his previous size? Hm? Come on, this is simple stuff.

What's that? I can't prove he's the best? Okay, well how about we hold an actual ostrich racing tournament to decide it? You totally can do this to decide the award. Whatever format you like, even. It won't matter. Because, really, how can anyone else possibly win?

Let me break it down for you:

Does anyone else have several years of experience in the field? No.
Does anyone else have the technical expertise required for ostrich racing? Probably not.
Does anyone else have extensive gentlemanly training in the equestrian arts, which conveniently carry over very nicely into the field of ostrich racing? Almost certainly not.
Does anyone else have experience firing a pistol or rifle from horseback -- which is much like firing from ostrich back -- in order to eliminate their competition mid-race? Seems unlikely.
Does anyone else have connections with ostrich breeding stables, to ensure they get access to the best racing ostriches? Don't make me laugh.
Does anyone else have a crippling addiction to drugs that enhance their performance in ostrich racing -- which is notoriously unregulated in such areas -- and an endocrine system conditioned to work with those drugs to maximise their beneficial effects? I would be remarkably surprised.
Does anyone else have connections to two organised crime syndicates, both of which operate in multiple continents, and would quite easily collude with them to ensure victory based on the potential profit from illegal gambling on the side? Hardly a possibility.

Look, I could go on, but I think I've made my point. The bottom line here is that Remington Aloysius Musgrave-Smythe, adopted son of King Sebastian I of Great Britain, is the greatest ostrich racer in the ISFL today, and, dare I say, ever.

19. Written Option: If your player had a show starring them, what would the plot be? (150 words)

There are so many options here but if I stop and think about it for a second... it's easy. It would be a comedy-drama show about a drug-addicted financier who secretly races ostriches on the side. Art imitates life innit? Call it uh... Lifestyles Ostrich and Poor or some other similarly contrived pun that doesn't actually work.

Naturally there would have to be a witty sidekick who provides the drugs but says they don't want to, and a flawed mentor -- would be a little on the nose to use Remi's adoptive father, and possibly an international incident waiting to happen, so use Antoine Delacour instead; he's troubled by his mistakes with past mentees or something, I dunno. Didn't he literally fight Lennox Garnett that one time?

What else? Oh a love interest. Honestly this depends on what you're going for and whether you've hit diversity quotas. Those are things on American TV, right? So uh... Tessa Thompson if you want strong black woman™ (also hits the LGBTQIA+ demographic), Gugu Mbatha-Raw if you want posh lady with delicate beauty (also black woman), or just cast Monica Bellucci as the aging heiress widow since she's European so that's automatically classy. Also women will want to be her, men will want to be with her. Winner. No I am not just listing famous women I find attractive, that would be crude.

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.

SHL Affiliate (academydropout)

[Alcott]

1. It came as almost no surprise that the Honolulu Hahalua again found themselves on the peak of the ISFL stage for the second season in a row. What did come as a surprise was the fierce competition for the title coming out of the NSFC, where both the Chicago Butchers and Sarasota Sailfish arrived in the playoffs with better records (13-3 and 12-4 respectively) than the Hahalua (11-5), and the back and forth battle that the Sailfish presented in the Ultimus, almost stealing away the back to back titles for Honolulu. But before we get into the epic and final game of the season, we can take a quick review of how each of the teams managed to find themselves in the championship match.

Honolulu Hahalua
The first game of the playoffs was pretty much a routing from the start for the Hahalua, taking a 21-0 first quarter lead over the fourth seed Orange County Otters that limped into the playoffs with a 7-9 record. Eventually the Otters did manage to muster up some fight after the Hahalua started to let off the gas and score 14 points (half of which were a 4th quarter garbage time touchdown pass from Tron Carter to Goat Tank Jr), but ultimately the game was never as close as the final score of 24-14.

In the ASFC championship game, the Hahalua met up with the third seed Arizona Outlaws, who were riding a high after putting a pretty good beat down on the second seed San Jose SaberCats in the previous round. And the Outlaws actually put up a pretty good fight throughout the game, even holding a one point lead early in the fourth quarter, but the offensive and defensive onslaught of the Hahalua was too much for the Outlaw defense to hold against, and the team from Honolulu threw on an additional 18 points in the final three minutes of the game to put the Outlaws to bed for the final time of the season.

Sarasota Sailfish
The first round of the playoffs featured a matchup of the second seed Sarasota Sailfish taking on the third seed Yellowknife Wraiths, and it was probably the best game of the first round. Showcasing a solid defense all around, not surprising considering the game had the first (Sarasota) and second (Yellowknife) place defenses in the league pitted against each other, and was a tight contest throughout. The Sailfish routinely found themselves in Yellowknife territory for the first half, but only produce 15 points on 5 field goals as the Wraith defense held firm. Eventually a fourth quarter touchdown from superstar running back John Huntsman would propel the team to victory, but only by a three point margin as the Wraiths refused to die without a fight.

In the NSFC championship game, the Sailfish this time met the first seed Chicago Butchers, the only team in the league to have a better regular season record than themselves. This game, however, was the absolute least competitive of the whole playoffs, with Sarasota just bulldozing the Butchers to a 22-2 victory. The game could have actually been much more out of hand than it was, as again the Sailfish offense faltered until late in the game, once again relying on the leg of their kicker, King, to put them up with another 5 field goals.

Ultimus
And here we are, at the season finale with the second and third regular season record holders, and boy was it a game for the ages. The two teams battled back and forth, with 7 lead changes throughout the course of the game. But ultimately, the Hahalua were able to arise victorious and a Zaylren touchdown pass with just 79 seconds remaining in the game to put his team on top and let the defense finish it off.

[PDXBaller]

The league has a rich and fascinating history, and our perspectives on it differ from person to person. In 600 words or more, describe any significant moment in ISFL or DSFL history, whether you were around for it or not. Describe the context, the significant members, and the events. What exactly made this event so famous (or infamous) and why does it deserve to be remembered? Events might include championship wins, the inducting of players to the hall of fame, or even a league scandal.

I don’t know if this was significant in league history or if anyone will care, but I wanted to write about my time in the early days of the DSFL and taking over for Portland. Maybe someone will find it interesting but at least it’s something I wanted to document! After my first season and getting drafted to Philadelphia in S3, I was enjoying my time in the league and meeting people. Things were much different back then… we had just launched the DSFL in S3 with 6 teams. After seeing Portland made into a DSFL I was super excited. Unfortunately they were one of the bottom teams in the season and I had heard their GMs went inactive so I leapt at the opportunity to take over in DSFL season 4. I revamped the logo and colors since it shared the same scheme as Kansas City to a black and yellow scheme since it hadn’t been done before in the league and I wanted something unique among all teams. Recruiting was a shitshow back then (and it probably hasn’t gotten much better) but you were working really hard to chat with every recruit and try to get a gauge on their activity. The league didn’t recruit as hard as it does now so it was really difficult to find those gems in the rough.

We had some pretty competitive GMs back then with kckolbe in charge of San Antonio. He was a big rival of mine and we tried our hardest to outdo each other. So it’s only fitting that we happen to face each other in the Ultimini. I wouldn’t say our rivalry ever got vicious, but there was always a big competitive energy between the teams and we always tried to one up each other in trades or strategies. We both felt like we had a good understanding of the sim and had been aggressive in our drafting and the inactive draft when we had downsized the league to 4 active teams.

I had lead the Pythons from a 5-9 season to 11-3 behind a high flying offensive scheme with Jameis Christ at quarterback and I lucked into an active receiver in John Wachter. Even though the team was mostly inactives, I had made some moves in the offseason to acquire and decent receiver in John Goose and some offensive linemen to support our scheme even though they were all inactive! It wasn’t optimal, but we made the best out of what we had at the time. Fortunately, I lucked out with drafting Carlito Crush at tight end and some active defensive players in Waiters, Taylor, and Parker so we had some semblance of a developing offense. Funny enough, we had only lost to our division rivals, Chicago, as our only losses in the season. We steam rolled the Seawolves in the West semifinals 31-0 and kckolbe lead his team to an easy 24-7 win over Tijuana too. Now, I can’t find the information for the game in the index and it’s been way too long for this boomer brain to remember but I do know that we won and it was a good victory! This victory set the tone for the team moving forward and (in my eyes) kick started the franchise moving forward. I won’t talk about the next season and how we lost to the bots of Palm Beach (booooo)… Anyways, I was really happy with how the season turned out and looking forward for many seasons we were able to build on that success and maintain a competitive playoff team and win more Ultimini’s. I hope to see more success in the future! #Pythons4Eva


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[Fordhammer]

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