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Everyone looks at the sim to find a way to better situate themselves for team success. Whether that was the illustrious 79 speed QB glitch, or discovering certain builds being more broken in the code of the game to even discovering which formations are better then others, but nobody has looked at the actual dots on the fields themselves. Yes we are all a bunch of coded stats and 1s and 0s, as well as attributes, but when you watch the games you do not see that but instead a number and a color.
In this first part of a possible two part series, we will be examining the best color to ever grace the ISFL halls, whilst also looking to see which on the color scale can lead to both team success and individual success. We will be listing these off of the very basic primary and secondary color scale (yellow, red, blue as primary and orange, purple, and green as secondary). To begin I must assign all teams to a specific color. They are as follows:
Primary:
Yellow-
Red-
Blue-
Secondary:
Orange-
Purple-
Green-
I based all the teams off the color of their home kits (I understand that Yellowknife is a black dot but seeing as that is not a primary or secondary color I decided to group them in team blue as the numbers on the players are in fact blue). At first glance it seems we have way too many red teams and a very little abundance of bright colors in orange and yellow. Now we can look at team success and individual success.
Championships (Team Success)
Team success is best measured by of course winning a championship and having your banner and a parade hosted in your home city. Based off of colors alone and winning a championship, the rankings are as followed:
*Note there is one missing Ultimus as the Philadelphia Liberty did win an early championship but have rebranded into the Cape Town Crush, switching from team blue to team purple. I did not know where to include the liberty, so they have been excluded from all calculations.*
Blue: 11 Championships (Wraiths 5, Hahalua 4, Sailfish 2)
Red: 11 Championships (Arizona 9, Butchers 1, Yeti 1)
Orange: 8 Championships (Otters 8)
Green: 7 Championships (Sabercats 3, Silverbacks 2, Copperheads 2)
Purple: 4 Championships (NOLA 3, Crush 1)
Yellow: 4 Championships (Hawks 4)
From a very easy standpoint the colors that have more teams have more championships (wow who wouldve guessed). As a bonus fact green was the last color to win an Ultimus which was finally won in Ultimus XIV. Now some may also see making it to the championship as a form of success as well in a season, after all you do have to represent your conference which makes you better then half the league. So here is how many of each team have been a part of the finals:
*Once again if a team no longer exists (Philadelphia Liberty) their appearance has been omited as you cannot play for that color anymore currently*
Blue: 24 Appearances (11-13 record)
Red: 23 Appearances (11-12 record)
Yellow: 11 Appearances (4-7 record)
Green: 11 Appearances (7-4 record)
Orange: 11 Appearances (8-3 record)
Purple: 9 Appearances (4-5 record)
Once again blue and red come in at the top, but the best record belongs to OCO representing the orange gang. The red team is both heavily affected by the Outlaws 9 wins with only 3 losses, but also held back by Berlin's 4 championship losses. It seems that if you want to make it to a championship, hope that you are selected by a blue or red team (which is of course 50% of the league) BUT if you want to win a championship try to get drafted by a green or orange team (which is roughly 29% of the league).
Individual Success
Some players create their player not caring about team success and instead chase individual rewards and statistics. To best see these winners lets look at Most Valuable Players (MVPs), Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) awards. Based by colors once again:
*Liberty MVP, OPOY and DPOYs once again do not count*
Most Valuable Player:
Red: 13
Blue: 12
Orange: 8
Yellow: 6
Purple: 5
Green: 2
Once again red and blue are at the top, but red has had a very big recent run with the current success of the Arizona Outlaws. If you want to win Most Valuable Player DO NOT GO TO A GREEN TEAM. Only two have been selected in league history ever (and one of those was the current reigning MVP, so before this season it was only ONE).
Offensive Player of the Year:
Blue: 14
Red: 7
Green: 7
Orange: 7
Purple: 5
Yellow: 4
This time there is a clear favorite with blue having twice as many as the next highest color with 14 winners. Purple is again bottom two with yellow being the least likely to have an offensive player of the year.
Defensive Player of the Year:
Red: 22
Blue: 10
Green: 6
Orange: 3
Yellow: 3
Purple:2
Once again we have a clear winner with red team (who has won the last 7 straight defensive player of the year awards). Once again purple and yellow make up the bottom two teams for these awards. This means for total awards it stacks up as:
Red: 42 total awards
Blue: 36 total awards
Orange: 18 total awards
Green: 15 total awards
Yellow: 13 total awards
Purple: 12 total awards
Overall the best teams to go to once again is the red and blue teams throughout the league. However even though the green team had only two MVPs, they did not end as the worst team to go to for overall awards as that belongs to the purple and yellow teams. One final metric to check is going to be hall of famers.
Hall Of Fame
The best way to see yourself as a fulfilled career is to make it into the ISFL Hall of Fame. This is the best way to easily see that you succeeded as a player on the field and the story of the ISFL cannot be told without you being a part of it. For hall of famers the colors come out to:
*Note that one player can count for multiple colors of teams. If they played there, then they count as one of their hall of famers on the wiki and thats good enough for me*
Hall of Famers:
Red: 57
Blue: 38
Orange: 27
Yellow: 26
Green: 24
Purple: 21
Overall playing on a red team leads to the highest chance of you being selected as a hall of famer whereas playing for a purple team gives you an uphill climb at a chance for the hall of fame. Now as the Cape Town Crash begin to retire more members I do believe the numbers of purple dots in the hall of fame will only continue to grow.
CONCLUSION
So based on the numbers it seems like the best bet is to play for a member of a red team, while also making a pit stop for an orange team along the way. It does seem like brighter colors have a bit more success when it comes to a dot. Some of these numbers are inflated by the number of teams under them whether thats having four teams for red or only one team for yellow and orange as well as some colors having some teams in their infancy (Cape Town and any of the expansion teams for green team). And who knows maybe this is all a psychological thing where people see their favorite color and are more likely to vote for an award based on the color of the dot since its their favorite (or the idea that blue puts more people at ease so its a nicer color or red is seen as more aggressive which is why it leads to more defensive player of the years).
Or maybe it does not matter at all at the end of the day.
But hey thats just a theory, a COLOR THEORY! Thanks for reading!
All data has been grabbed from the ISFL Wiki!
Everyone looks at the sim to find a way to better situate themselves for team success. Whether that was the illustrious 79 speed QB glitch, or discovering certain builds being more broken in the code of the game to even discovering which formations are better then others, but nobody has looked at the actual dots on the fields themselves. Yes we are all a bunch of coded stats and 1s and 0s, as well as attributes, but when you watch the games you do not see that but instead a number and a color.
In this first part of a possible two part series, we will be examining the best color to ever grace the ISFL halls, whilst also looking to see which on the color scale can lead to both team success and individual success. We will be listing these off of the very basic primary and secondary color scale (yellow, red, blue as primary and orange, purple, and green as secondary). To begin I must assign all teams to a specific color. They are as follows:
Primary:
Yellow-
Red-
Blue-
Secondary:
Orange-
Purple-
Green-
I based all the teams off the color of their home kits (I understand that Yellowknife is a black dot but seeing as that is not a primary or secondary color I decided to group them in team blue as the numbers on the players are in fact blue). At first glance it seems we have way too many red teams and a very little abundance of bright colors in orange and yellow. Now we can look at team success and individual success.
Championships (Team Success)
Team success is best measured by of course winning a championship and having your banner and a parade hosted in your home city. Based off of colors alone and winning a championship, the rankings are as followed:
*Note there is one missing Ultimus as the Philadelphia Liberty did win an early championship but have rebranded into the Cape Town Crush, switching from team blue to team purple. I did not know where to include the liberty, so they have been excluded from all calculations.*
Blue: 11 Championships (Wraiths 5, Hahalua 4, Sailfish 2)
Red: 11 Championships (Arizona 9, Butchers 1, Yeti 1)
Orange: 8 Championships (Otters 8)
Green: 7 Championships (Sabercats 3, Silverbacks 2, Copperheads 2)
Purple: 4 Championships (NOLA 3, Crush 1)
Yellow: 4 Championships (Hawks 4)
From a very easy standpoint the colors that have more teams have more championships (wow who wouldve guessed). As a bonus fact green was the last color to win an Ultimus which was finally won in Ultimus XIV. Now some may also see making it to the championship as a form of success as well in a season, after all you do have to represent your conference which makes you better then half the league. So here is how many of each team have been a part of the finals:
*Once again if a team no longer exists (Philadelphia Liberty) their appearance has been omited as you cannot play for that color anymore currently*
Blue: 24 Appearances (11-13 record)
Red: 23 Appearances (11-12 record)
Yellow: 11 Appearances (4-7 record)
Green: 11 Appearances (7-4 record)
Orange: 11 Appearances (8-3 record)
Purple: 9 Appearances (4-5 record)
Once again blue and red come in at the top, but the best record belongs to OCO representing the orange gang. The red team is both heavily affected by the Outlaws 9 wins with only 3 losses, but also held back by Berlin's 4 championship losses. It seems that if you want to make it to a championship, hope that you are selected by a blue or red team (which is of course 50% of the league) BUT if you want to win a championship try to get drafted by a green or orange team (which is roughly 29% of the league).
Individual Success
Some players create their player not caring about team success and instead chase individual rewards and statistics. To best see these winners lets look at Most Valuable Players (MVPs), Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) awards. Based by colors once again:
*Liberty MVP, OPOY and DPOYs once again do not count*
Most Valuable Player:
Red: 13
Blue: 12
Orange: 8
Yellow: 6
Purple: 5
Green: 2
Once again red and blue are at the top, but red has had a very big recent run with the current success of the Arizona Outlaws. If you want to win Most Valuable Player DO NOT GO TO A GREEN TEAM. Only two have been selected in league history ever (and one of those was the current reigning MVP, so before this season it was only ONE).
Offensive Player of the Year:
Blue: 14
Red: 7
Green: 7
Orange: 7
Purple: 5
Yellow: 4
This time there is a clear favorite with blue having twice as many as the next highest color with 14 winners. Purple is again bottom two with yellow being the least likely to have an offensive player of the year.
Defensive Player of the Year:
Red: 22
Blue: 10
Green: 6
Orange: 3
Yellow: 3
Purple:2
Once again we have a clear winner with red team (who has won the last 7 straight defensive player of the year awards). Once again purple and yellow make up the bottom two teams for these awards. This means for total awards it stacks up as:
Red: 42 total awards
Blue: 36 total awards
Orange: 18 total awards
Green: 15 total awards
Yellow: 13 total awards
Purple: 12 total awards
Overall the best teams to go to once again is the red and blue teams throughout the league. However even though the green team had only two MVPs, they did not end as the worst team to go to for overall awards as that belongs to the purple and yellow teams. One final metric to check is going to be hall of famers.
Hall Of Fame
The best way to see yourself as a fulfilled career is to make it into the ISFL Hall of Fame. This is the best way to easily see that you succeeded as a player on the field and the story of the ISFL cannot be told without you being a part of it. For hall of famers the colors come out to:
*Note that one player can count for multiple colors of teams. If they played there, then they count as one of their hall of famers on the wiki and thats good enough for me*
Hall of Famers:
Red: 57
Blue: 38
Orange: 27
Yellow: 26
Green: 24
Purple: 21
Overall playing on a red team leads to the highest chance of you being selected as a hall of famer whereas playing for a purple team gives you an uphill climb at a chance for the hall of fame. Now as the Cape Town Crash begin to retire more members I do believe the numbers of purple dots in the hall of fame will only continue to grow.
CONCLUSION
So based on the numbers it seems like the best bet is to play for a member of a red team, while also making a pit stop for an orange team along the way. It does seem like brighter colors have a bit more success when it comes to a dot. Some of these numbers are inflated by the number of teams under them whether thats having four teams for red or only one team for yellow and orange as well as some colors having some teams in their infancy (Cape Town and any of the expansion teams for green team). And who knows maybe this is all a psychological thing where people see their favorite color and are more likely to vote for an award based on the color of the dot since its their favorite (or the idea that blue puts more people at ease so its a nicer color or red is seen as more aggressive which is why it leads to more defensive player of the years).
Or maybe it does not matter at all at the end of the day.
But hey thats just a theory, a COLOR THEORY! Thanks for reading!
All data has been grabbed from the ISFL Wiki!