(S46) PT #2 - The Butterfly Effect

[GlimsTC]

Throughout Swaggert's career, two questions have constantly been posed to him: "Would you be willing to play Tight End?" and "Can you please stop chewing with your mouth open?"

In regards to the first question, for some reason every team Swaggert has run into always wants to deploy him at the big man position. Now, Swaggert definitely has more meat on the bones than your average runningback, but the insinuation CONSTANTLY that he's TE sized big is an INSULT to both his skills and bodysize. Swaggert always practices body positivity, but if he did give in the shaming of GMs, he'd probably be a pretty solid blocking TE constantly complaining that he's not scoring touchdowns.

As for the chewing with his mouth open, well, that's simple. Swaggert is ALL about getting attention, so if he was to start purposely gaining less attention, he'd risk fading into obscurity. Swaggert probably doesn't even get drafted at all if he doesn't have all the attention and personality to back his amazing skills, so he'd have gone round 4 in BOTH drafts somehow. Dark timelines, truly.

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[dogwoodmaple]

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[UberBJ]

I like to think that if Cheecago Boucher had gone a different path it would've started at either the ISFL or DSFL draft. I doubt he'd ever have switched schools or anything like that.

For starters, lets imagine if he had gone to a place like Norfolk, with the famed Maximous Bourdeoux. He probably wouldve won a championship and gotten complacent and never turned into the recent defensive rookie of the year. Or god help him if he were to go somewhere like Minnesota where they live off of dairy and dairy accessories. He'd get so big he'd turn into an offensive lineman.

Now the ISFL path couldve changed alot of things, some teams may have put him into a different position. He coudlve gone to a cursed place like Colorado where he wouldve probably gone inactive out of spite or sadness. Or he couldve gone to Baltimore and becoming a running back which also would have been sadness.

[Nathan]

When I heard the S43 Charity Drive was happening, I decided to put my recreate position up for auction.  Zayn won it and after I retired my original player after the Season 44 Ultimus (corpsed), Zayn said to recreate as a Safety.  The trajectory for my current player’s career will be radically different and the experience of being a Safety different than what I likely would’ve picked myself.  Seeing how the offense in Berlin was completely flaccid between S39-S42 (the interim between our two Ultimus appearances), I decided to swap to Offensive Line for my last three seasons.  I likely would’ve recreated as an offensive lineman again due to how frustrating that period was, and how much a bad offensive line hinders an offense.  Instead, as a Safety I’m looking to prevent big plays more or less as a rangy db.  The experience is also more active since you’re waiting to see your player make that big play of a pass breakup or an interception, whereas OL half your pancakes don’t even get reported

[Tayjay]

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[DL14]

Written option: Every player's career is made up of a number of turning points. What would have happened if you had gone down a different path instead – like choosing a different school, playing a different position, or being drafted by a different team? Describe the moment in question and how your career would be different from how it is now!
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As you say Baron (or whoever else is grading this, much love btw), there are many turning points in my career, some which I may not even be aware of. Had I gone to a different school… it is likely I never would have played football to begin with, as I most likely wouldn’t have been in the foreign exchange program that allowed me to get a chance in the first place. Had I played a different position, it is not extremely unlikely I would have still found success (unless I was a tight end). Had I been a kicker or a kick return specialist like in my early days, I still would have likely been successful even without the extra visibility. I could have very easily gone to different teams in both the DSFL or ISFL. I fell to pick 40 in the DSFL draft because no one wanted me due to character concerns, Had it not been for Norfolk, I could have easily slipped down to Norfolk’s next pick way later down the line or even to one of the last places in the class outright, which would have landed me in a very different team and thus a different story would have ensued. It is roughly the same for the ISFL draft, as I was never going to be worth anything earlier than a mid 2nd rounder at best, but I was a 3rd round or later prospect that draft. Had I not been drafted to Baltimore with pick 32, I easily could have gone to YKW who had expressed interest at pick 34. And later down the line, there was the possibility of OCO or CTC at 45 and 46 respectively. I’d say I maybe didn’t land in either of the best places for both of my drafts, as I got unlucky with Norfolk being a deep rebuild and becoming successful only after I left and Baltimore forcing me to wait 3 seasons (which would have been 4 had it not been for Sam Mercury’s trade) in order to come up. Maybe it was for the better, but I guess I'll never know

[aeonsjenni]

I sometimes wonder how Marie's career would have turned out had she been drafted 1oa to the Silverbacks, rather than 2oa to the Yeti. I remember that I very much wanted to go to the Yeti, so I didn't work very hard to woo New York to draft me in hopes they would pass on me. I was also very sick when Zayn scouted me, like literally in the middle of a fever dream, so I don't think I impressed very much either way. It's therefore feasible (though still not very likely) that New York might have chosen to draft me 1oa had I worked for it. I know that NYS was looking to draft Zayn's replacement, so it's much more likely that I would have been groomed to take over as a GM within a couple seasons. I honestly have no clue how I would have done in that situation, though I think it's much more likely that I would have swapped positions, possibly to CB or DT. Overall, I think the fact that I went 2oa worked out best for both myself and NYS, since I don't think I'm half the GM of wizard, but either way I think it could have been fun.