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RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - LatinViking - 10-10-2020
The reasons why the Myrtle Beach Bucaneers are going to win this season (number twenty five) DSFL championship, better known as the ultimini are really diverse. But as it's my style I'm going to give you five different points for why they are favorites.
1) it's the only team with capped offensive weapons
Starting with their Quarterback, a pair of trusty Wide Receivers and a Tight End, the Bucaneers are one of the few teams able to run an actual air raid system,combining long and middle passes to the sides with a two way Tight end that works well both in the blocking game and as a passing treat giving the team flexibility and tools to push the defenses on this run dominated league.
2) a strong offensive line.
Even if they are not capped yet, the unit led by rookie Richard Littlewood it's strong and efficient. And they proved this by allowing no sacks against Kansas city. Even more Littlewood it's yet to know defeat when it comes to finals. Having such a strong unit gives peace and time to their offense to win enough yards to make the opponent run game completely useless
3) they know how to win finals, The Myrtle Beach Bucaneers are 3-1 when it comes to finals, winning ultimini III, XIII and XIX while running short on ultimini XVIII against the Minesotta Grey Ducks, is this past success what drives them to go out and try to repeat past performances, because they would hate to wait for ten years before their next ring comes home.
4)they put out the work being around 170 average effective TPE before season started puts them second tied with London for highest average on the league, but that's not it, as they members keep training trying to become the champions they want to be.
5) they are having fun
It's a close group and really busy locker room, their energy it's contagious and teams having fun tends to work more together, their activity numbers shows that most of them are actually still active on the league and that's the key of their success.
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RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - Jonny2x - 10-10-2020
It could be said that Torenson will become the least likely Hall of Fame player in League history. Sam Torenson entered the league as a little know farm boy from Clintonville Wisconsin. His was a relatively low draft pick of the Portland Pythons at defensive tackle. You see in his home town with a population of 650 he was always the biggest kid around and therefor was always playing on the line. While in Portland and goofing off after practice this rookie showed some instincts that a coach noticed. The next day he was moved to running back and his career has gone through the roof. He was the number one overall pick the next season for the expansion Chicago Butchers. He toted the rock for them for two seasons, making the playoffs each season, before the team management broke the team down and sold off pieces. He has since become the franchise rushing leader for the Philadelphia Liberty while simultaneously remaining in the top 5 rushing for Chicago despite only being there 2 seasons. He has 960 yards to go to break the league all-time rushing yards record. From little know defensive tackle to best running back in the league solidifies him as biggest surprise.
RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - ForSucksFake - 10-10-2020
I legitimately believe the Chicago Butchers will make it to the Ultimus. They may not win it (Orange County is on that black magic again), but I think they'll get there. They showed in week one that they can overcome a lead, They don't lead in any major facet of the game in any category, but they play a complete team game. It's going to be tough, the schedule isn't a gimme. They do play the Yeti again and will likely meet up with them in the playoffs. But I believe in the offense. They've got George O'Donnell coming into his own, and he is utilizing an arsenal on offense. With receivers like Sean O'Leary, Bender Rodriguez, Lim Jahey, and Tree Geldman, he has the ability to really stretch the field. Tirtawidjaja & Yoda also provide the complementary one-two punch on the ground. Defensively, the Butchers are stacked, too. Tyron Shields captains the unit and anchors the secondary. Smirh, Brooks, Eller, Hayes, and Works are a force to be reckoned with out front. Juan Domine will also garner himself some serious awards as a rookie. This team is just too talented not to return to the playoffs and make a run for it. Even if they don't win it all this year, Chicago's window has flung open.
RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - Arvot - 10-10-2020
After completing my first season in the DSFL I feel like the new user experience could be improved.
I found myself overwhelmed at the start, with everything being spread out over multiple points of information. I had to figure out for myself what I had to do each week, and how to get tpe and get cash.
I feel like a post with all the information in it would be of great help. Not info on every single thing you can do, more like a sim football for dummies type thing.
Explain the simple ways people can do tasks to get money. I would group them into different time commitments. Some people only have time to do like 10 minutes a day or a couple of hours a week whilst others are able to become really involved. So you could have do activity checks every week, post on twitter every day, weekly training and predictions for games as the basic tasks that people could do. Have a post with links to all these things explaining how to do them.
You could have another section for people who want to be more involved which shows media pieces, and some examples of what you can write about. One thing that was confusing at the start is the use of the term media. I didn't know if you meant music, videos, graphics or whatever. I think now of media as a term for written pieces, but not sure if it also includes graphics etc. I would clarify this in the beginners' post. Mention podcasts and graphics in this part too, for people who have a bit more time and want to be more involved. With examples of the types of graphics or podcasts that would be suitable.
Another section would be to tell people about the jobs available for those who want to become really involved in this community.
I think the key thing here is to not go into too much detail about all of these. Give a short "Explain Like I'm Five" description for them all, and have a link to the actual forum posts with all the details on it.
The rookie point task is a good way for people to work through some stuff and get a good chunk of tpe and cash to start, but after that, I felt a bit lost at what to do next.
If this sort of post already exists then please signpost it more clearly for new players.
I've really enjoyed my time in the DSFL but I think a post like this, that is simple and shows people the routine of being in the league would help people who are doing this sort of thing for the first time or are just interested in it but don't have time to fully commit.
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RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - thecanadiancanuck - 10-10-2020
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RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - gbfn - 10-10-2020
This year should be Heinrich Kackpoos breakout season. There are many indications for a strong season. First and foremost looking at his individual stats. He is sitting at 716 TPE with the most important abilities near max or decent. In the offseason he was training very hard and put on 15 lbs which should make him only more consistent in tackling his opponents. Another reason is that in the offseason Mack Arianlacher was leaving the Hahalua due to 1. misshaps regarding due dates and other formalities. Due to his departure from Honolulu Kackpoo is now the best linebacker on the depth chart. The other 2 players Guy Fields and Rusty Rucker look promising, but they need a to work a bit on their abilities since this is their rookie campaign.
4 Weeks in Heinrich Kackpoo already shows what he is capable of doing. He is 6th in tackles among linebackers, has acumulated 3 TFL, 3 Sacks, 1 Interception and even 1 defensive touchdown. If he could put up similar stats as he did in the first quarter of the season he could be among the favourites for breakout player of the year or maybe even DPOTY. But even if he would not get any awards, he will show that he is one essential piece in the Hahalua defense.
RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - ComebackZak - 10-10-2020
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RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - slate - 10-10-2020
The ability to sim test for games is bad for the health of the league. In order to develop strategies for games, teams simply test a bunch of different possible depth charts, playbooks, etc. and see which has the highest win percentage. In effect, this means that the ability to successfully gameplan relies not on an understanding of the game, football acumen, or in-depth knowledge of both teams' rosters, but instead on how many tests a team can run quickly. Based on my personal experience as well as the reactions of other people I've seen from having this realization, it is fairly disappointing and breaks the verisimilitude of participating in the simulation football league. It places a lot more emphasis on the simulation part, while most people join the league because of the football part.
However, far more than the issues regarding expectations and realism, the far more dangerous issue from sim testing is the ability for teams to know exactly what percent chance of winning they had. Unlike in most sports, winning each game (beyond the often <5% gains made through sim testing) comes down entirely due to luck of the draw. When watching or playing a real football game, even if a heavily favored team loses, we know that it comes down to execution on the field and individual performances. We can identify things that the players did well or poorly that resulted in the surprising outcome. In simulation football, if a heavily favored team loses it's entirely because they got unlucky and an event with a sometimes ~20% chance of occurring happened. There is nothing that the players or the managers on either team could have done differently to prevent this outcome.
When the true probability is known to everyone through sim testing, this results in very negative feelings. We can look to the (sometimes lighthearted but often relatively serious) feud between Honolulu and Crunk last season, where Crunk's ratings consistently placed Honolulu near the bottom of the league due to their poor expected results while their "on-field" performance was great. That was a relatively public example, but the fact is that almost every locker room will have some contingent of people complaining about sim luck after every loss in a game where testing said they were favored. Over the long run I believe these feelings are a real danger to the continued health of the league and peoples' joy in participating in it.
It's human nature to be upset about something that you can't control. Which is easier, to change human nature, or to change the league so that sim testing is unviable, or at least much more difficult?
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443 wordsRE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - 37thchamber - 10-10-2020
I propose that every point task should present the option of writing 200 or more words about your player character instead of the prompt. There are many reasons for this, chief among them the difficulty in meeting the prompts sometimes (particularly for newer members) and the fact that this league is and always has been, "dungeons and dragons, but football"
I could quite easily trot out the number of people I have spoken to who have admitted to struggling with this particular prompt as evidence -- for the record, its four people on ONE team alone; extrapolation isn't accurate but if we assume each team has twelve actives, and the proportions are the same on each team, that's 33% of the ACTIVE userbase struggling to complete point tasks. You don't need to be good at mathematics to know that this does not bode well for league-wide user retention -- but instead I want to point to how much this problem could equate to, across the average player career, either lost TPE, or time wasted on low quality writing.
If we say there are five point tasks per season, and the average player can make it to season eight, that's forty point tasks. Forty times three is 120 TPE potentially lost. That's not a small amount. If you were a casual earner, picking up activity checks and cheap training only every week, you'd lose roughly that much in your first year of regression.
Let's look at this in terms of time spent. 200 words is doable in about 15 minutes realistically for most people. The actual time taken will vary on the difficulty of finding something to fit the prompt, and how quickly you type of course, but 15 minutes is a reasonable estimate. Across forty point tasks, that's ten hours spent writing about shit you don't want to write about. I don't think we should be making people spent that amount of time doing things they clearly don't want to do. Instead, let them write freely about their player character. That's why a lot of us are here, after all. To develop and/or roleplay a character.
RE: (S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements - Mojojojo - 10-10-2020
As a brand new user in the league, I appreciate that there are many ways in which users and players can be recognized—in their performance on the field through index stats, through draft position (DSFL and, later, ISFL), through the awarding of team game balls, through league awards, and by holding team (“franchise”) or league records. Many of these, particularly the idea of tracking records, are also traditions in the NFL. One tradition that we see in the NFL that I have not seen (yet) in the DSFL is the tracking of rookie franchise records—not just looking at the career contributions of a player, but also recognizing the breakout stars who demonstrate their draft value from their very first season with the team. Particularly in the DSFL, where players have a relatively even playing field in terms of TPE while starting out, it would be cool to have records that celebrate standout rookies and this would be another way to help retain new users in the league because even playing with teammates who have hit the DSFL cap but have yet to be called up, there would be potential to set a franchise record. It might also give veteran recreates (hoping to quickly move back to the ISFL) more to play for in the DSFL even if they are staying there only one season.
One of the difficulties in actually implementing this idea is that, while the DSFL allows marking of players as “rookies” this feature is notoriously unreliable in the historic records. This would require a significant amount of manual labor to track back through rosters, and even if that process could be automated one would have to account for position switches and name changes.
The ISFL could implement something similar, but there would be a lot more variability in the TPE that players have in their rookie seasons depending on call ups. I guess that’s not that different from the NFL rookie records, since players come into the league with vastly different ability levels and college training/experience.
So, in short, I think it would be really cool to see teams track rookie franchise records if someone would be willing to do the work to trace back through the rosters.
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