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(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Mongoose87 - 04-12-2018
Last season, the Portland Pythons were 10-4 entering the playoffs. The team was collectively on fire. They closed out the regular season with a three game win streak. The defense was downright cruel, leading the league in fewest points allowed per game. They’d lucked out on waivers and picked up a later comer to the league who they thought might be the final piece to their championship puzzle, a young safety named Will H Harrison, who impressed by picking off three passes in his three games of the regular season.
Everything fell apart, starting with a key interception infield goal range, in the playoffs, against the Kansas City Coyotes. That interception cost the Pythons a score, and led to a Coyotes touchdown. It was essentially the difference.
But, had they not lost that game, Portland would not have picked second overall in the draft. Coincidentally, that same promising waiver pickup, Will H Harrison, was ranked the number one defensive prospect in the draft. If the Pythons didn’t get that 2nd overall pick, they couldn’t have selected Harrison. They wouldn’t have him back for this year’s revenge tour, potentially the DSFL story of the year. He’d probably be a Coyote or a Luchadore, right now.
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - 37thchamber - 04-12-2018
So many scenarios, but the one that plagues Antoine Delacour the most is... What would have happened if he had just stayed in his lane? See, by choosing to wander outside his lane and speak on the developmental simulation football league's rules on "inactives" (being players who do not attend team training sessions) and how their contracts should be governed, Delacour provoked the ire of super active, totally not awful cornerback and apparently all-round great guy, Kevin Cushing.
It can't be said for certain that Delacour's lane-hopping in any way contributed to the Cushing's meltdown, but it did spawn a meme which may well have meant the career of the worst "elite" cornerback in the league to tailspin into what is increasingly looking like early retirement. At this juncture, it seems that only the copious amounts of TPE Cushing injected in the early days of his career are keeping him on the Liberty roster. And that, friends, is a tragedy.
If not for Delacour -- the DSFL banker -- and his meddling in things that don't concern him (the DSFL), maybe Cushing would have stayed around, and elevated the play of his new defensive back partner Clifford Rove. Maybe he would have made the position switch to quarterback instead of Tyler Oles, given his insane efforts off the field. Who knows?
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Leafer - 04-12-2018
You know what I will talk about. The last game of the season last season. Between the hawks and wraith, the hawks blew that game and missed the NSFL Playoffs and it was a complete disaster and big disappointment. But what if we won that game. Well everything would have changed. Because if we win that game, we would make the playoffs and the wraith would miss the playoffs. And then we face the Liberty and we manage to pull an upset and beat them and move on to the Ultimus finals. And then we face the otters and since we beat the otters twice, we can make it 3rd time the charm and win the ultimus cup and that would make it a big difference for not only the hawks but also the entire football league.
Now would that be awesome or what. I mean the hawks winning the ultimus instead of the hawks or liberty or wraith is way more cooler and more fun than reality. So what if is something which is fun because if something does not go right, I can just think of the positive There are other what ifs like the draft or offseason or during the season but this game I wanted to say.
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - PaytonM34 - 04-12-2018
What if the Las Vegas Legion didn't have a mass retirement? The league would look a lot different than it does today. I wasn't around for the drama of the mass retirement so i dont know too much about it other than it left the team basically back to square one. Cosbornballboy or whatever his name was wouldn't have become GM and then quickly resigned, giving the all great and powerful Bovovovo the head GM job of the Legion. And had Bovovovo not become the GM of the Legion, he would not have hired his mistress tbone to become his interim co-GM until Ben came back from the Eu or Na, wherever he was. And the team probably wouldn't have moved to NOLA and transform into the meme dream team we have today. Me and tbone wouldn't have had a place to talk about why he didn't just vote positive, the dumb fuck. There would have been no way that all of us who are currently on NOLA, to be on the same team had the legion not mass retired, and Borkus Maximus the third wouldn't have won 3 back to back to back ultimus' alongside the love of his life, Terrell Brister.
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(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Vikain - 04-12-2018
What ifs. Those are always floating around for any sport team. What if they picked this player instead of this one. What if they traded or did not trade a certain player. So many ifs in sports that the whole story now could have been turned differently. What if for me is Logan Noble. What if he did not cheat. For someone that had so much potential and upside he would be caught cheating and eventually his downfall came. He had the highest TPE for any quarterback and had ton of breathing space. There's no doubt he would have been the number one or at least two in the whole NSFL as the most dominant qb. From the poster child of the Yeti and putting a lot of hope and dreams on him his suspension would hit him and the Yeti extremely hard. If only we could look into the alternate universe where Logan Noble did not cheat and was still the most dominant qb in the league. Would he have been the most productive quarterback? Would he have been able to take the Yeti to the Ultimus and win it? No one knows. It's unfortunate that he threw his career away like that. Could have been interesting to see the results.
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - CDub2 - 04-13-2018
What if position switches weren't allowed in this league? Now I'm not talking about moving a tackle to a guard, or a TE to a WR. I'm talking about offensive line to QB, or to RB, or to LB. Imagine the league where those top earners of today's league are still stuck on the line. Imagine the league where guys like Avon Blocksdale and Akselsen are still stuck on the offensive line. It would change everything about this league. Well, most things. Orange county would likely still be on top, and the Outlaws would probably still have won in the early years (multis are a hell of a drug). Otherwise, I believe the rest of the league would be completely different. Hell, every QB in the NSFC conference last year was a position change. Oles, Akselsen, and Blocksdale all came from a different position. It would completely change the free agency and draft as well. Now, positions of need are bid heavily on. A free agent at a not-so popular position would have to be fought for. A QB in the draft would be snagged up really early, instead of now, where we just draft the highest TPE guy and switch him to what we need. Teams would actually draft for need, not just TPE.
But I'm not saying that an LB always needs to play LB. But I don't think he should be able to change his height, skills, or (drastically change) his weight for a position change. I think it's totally fine to make a (example) Safety into a LB, but I think the skill redistribution we have now. That safety switching to LB should keep his stats. I would have liked to see how team building dynamics would have changed if the character creation was more concrete.
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(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Durden - 04-13-2018
If we're looking at 'what if' scenarios, think of last season's playoffs.
First of all, we could've had an entirely different match up in the NSFC if the last game went a bit differently.
The Baltimore Hawks won every single game that they should have. Four of their seven wins came against the bottom feeders in the league. They managed to win one game against the Liberty, and two games against the Otters of all teams.
The Wraiths won 3 of the 4 "gimme" games, tying the New Orleans Second Line. Many thought this would hurt their chances at getting the second spot in the NSFC, but were able win one against the Outlaws, and one against the Otters.
The biggest thing is that the Wraiths beat the Hawks both times they played them, including the last game of the season. With just ONE win from the Hawks over the Wraiths, the playoffs would've looked a bit different.
Another big 'what if' that I noticed came in the ASFC Championship game.
Tie game. 2:22 left on the clock. Sabercats manage to break up a pass and it's now 3rd and 15 for the Otters on the Sabercats' 49 yard line.
The next play? An 18 yard bomb from Boss to Canton. This led to the Otters driving down a bit more and kicking the game winning field goal with just 34 seconds left to play.
If the Sabrecats are able to stop just that ONE pass play, or even reduce the yardage gained, that 34 yard field goal might not have happened.
Any given Sunday, right?
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Bwestfield - 04-13-2018
There a million different things that could have happened in the past. So it should be easy to pick any number of things to write about. What if Noble truly was only one man and a lot of friends who all loved playing this game and then were banned because they didn’t let it be known that they would be using the same IP address sometimes. What if they grew up together, went to the same school, knew each other since they were in grade school. We could’ve taken out an entire city’s population off the site even though they all loved the game. Some things in this world are far fetched. But is it so far fetched to believe that one man can have a few friends? Now we have a player here who is not Noble but actually is in real life all because he just loves the game. Where would the Yeti be? Would they have been the champions and the team to beat? The Yeti were looking really good before they lost so much. They finished 8 and 6 their first two seasons. They could have been a dynasty, a franchise made throughout drafting and building. Can you imagine a Yeti powerhouse, that would be fun!
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - White Cornerback - 04-13-2018
Written: Must include 200 words. There have been a lot of situations that could play out differently, situations that if one thing changes the whole league goes in a much different direction. Write about one of these situations.
One moment that sticks in the back of my head is what would have happened if Bubba Nuck continued his tear throughout the NSFL, the same way that he did in his younger days, most notably S1 and S2.
Nuck's name was on the lips of everybody not caught up in the Offensive Line era sa we will call it which focused much of the leagues attention on the pancake and sacks allowed of many top tier offensive lineman, the quality of which we have never seen again and are likely to never see again in the leagues future.
Nuck was on par for what many would have hoped would be his premier season in S3, alas it didn't work out that way. Combined with the resurgence of diamond in the rough talent, Eric Kennedy, rumors began circulating that "Nuck" had lose the love for the game, was missing practices and game film time, supposedly had interests in an SHL career as opposed to the NSFL. Yellowknife's front office scrambled to address the claims but fell flat on it's face, as a result Nuck did remain on their team until S6, but a shadow of himself.
I guess that's the way the potato crumbles.
(S7) - PT 2 - NS-if-L - Bzerkap - 04-13-2018
I guess I'll go with the easy option here. Er with all his multis definitely changed the game since they were all in S2 and so many of them were OL when it was a massive need around the league. I know for a fact I drafted two of his OL creates, I'm sure other teams did as well. However, the big part of all this is Arizona acquired some of the best players in the league at the time with Tim Pest, Luke Leuchly, and Cristiano Ronaldo which really helped propel them to two more league titles in S2 and S3. Now, I'm not saying they wouldn't have won but the chances definitely wouldn't have been as high. They were utterly dominant both of those seasons.
So if they didn't have those players they wouldn't have a top flight LB, top LT, and top kicker. They probably would have missed some kicks, not punted nearly as far. Bronko wouldn't have nearly as much time in the pocket and Reg Mackworthy wouldn't have had as much room to navigate. They probably would have gotten different prospects in S2 but now the talent across the league is a lot less and Arizona probably doesn't win as many games. Probably lose two more games a season and I would say that the Otters win the Ultimus in S3.
A good franchise but not nearly as good.