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*What's Changed? - Noble - 11-12-2018
A lot has changed around the NSFL since it began operations back in S1. There have been dynasties, and rebuilds, and great heroes and even greater villains, but one thing has always remained constant and that is the continued pursuit of excellence. From the very beginning there was an immediate air that something truly lasting was in the making, and that unlike many football leagues of the past the National Simulation Football League had all of the building blocks in place to have a long and lasting legacy. For some people though, that desire for greatness grew to big and eventually developed into an obsession, a complete addiction to the idea of being the best. One of the people who falls under that blanket is infamous user Noble, otherwise known as Logan Noble. After joining the NSFL as an updater back when the league began, Noble was given a serious opportunity to correct past actions and have a fresh start in a new community, but when presented this chance opted instead to abuse the power he had been handed and spit it back in the face of the people who's opinions he had tried so desperately to change. Today we will be looking over a number of things, from the rise and fall of the quarterback Logan Noble, to the impacts the user had on the community, to the psychology hidden behind the mask of a character that is Carson Shmyr.
The Player
Logan Noble began his career in S1 as the player manager for the Colorado Yeti alongside Wyatt Fulton. After a successful first draft, the team was left loaded with talent that would help them go on a long run towards NSFL glory. At the end of their first season, the Colorado Yeti finished with a record of 8-6 which vaulted them into a playoff round against the Yellowknife Wraiths where they were able to dispatch their competition and move into the Ultimus Final against the Arizona Outlaws. In this match-up the Outlaws reigned supreme, taking home the game with a decisive victory and securing their spot in the record books as the first team to ever claim NSFL supremacy. In the off-season transitioning into S2, the Yeti added a number of key players through the draft and looked stronger than ever. They returned in S2 with a powerful roster and again went 8-6 but failed to make the playoffs due to the league's playoff qualification algorithim, falling to the Baltimore Hawks and Yellowknife Wraiths but finishing above the expansion Philadelphia Liberty.
In S3, Logan Noble was banned from the NSFL on accounts of illegal growth, and spent the season instead riding the bench for the Colorado Yeti before he would later be traded to the Las Vegas Legion, one of the two expansion teams from S2. Noble took on a role as the starting quarterback in front of Josh Bercovici in S5 where he was still a decently competitive quarterback before eventually falling out of contention as a top player for the rest of his career. With the addition of Borkus Maximus III to the now New Orleans Second Line, it seemed that Noble's career in football was destined to end with his final season in Las Vegas, but in a surprise twist that left the Philadelphia Liberty without a quarterback during the off-season of S9, Logan Noble was recruited to join their roster. In Philadelphia he posted the worst performance of any quarterback to ever play the game, with the effects of old age beginning to take their tole on the veteran quarterback. He finished his career last season after playing a second year in a Liberty jersey, thus fading into irrelevance and myth.
The User
Noble joined the NSFL only days after it was announced, coming from the SHL where he had remained mostly inactive after almost two years in the sim league community and a previous ban from the site over account of multis (or rather accounts for that matter) under the name of Quinn. Unbeknownst to all except for the Head Office, Noble decided to take on an alter ego and joined the NSFL with the intention of having a fresh start in a sim league community. He initially applied for the role of Head Updater, but was denied by the commissioner after not coming clean about who he was on other sites which was, to be fair, a bad note to start on. Instead the commissioner offered him a role as one of the full-time updaters, and Noble gladly took the role. Soon after he was taken on by @`incitehysteria` of the Colorado Yeti as the Co-GM to the franchise and began to build up his repertoire of success.
His resume began to grow through his first season as he eventually did become the Head Updater, became an integral part of the early league player progression system by designing the first league wide TPE earning schedule, helped open up fantasy football as the first assistant fantasy manager, and developed the Top 50 players list for the league, which he compiled using the rankings of five other members from across the league.
In S2 he was named the Head GM of the Colorado Yeti after Wyatt Fulton stepped down and helped conduct the live Twitch draft as one of the co-hosts, but would soon after move out of the role to take on a new position as a Head Office member after beginning the conversation of a minor league system similar to that of the SMJHL from the SHL. Noble crafted the initial rule book of the DSFL, and led all of the major discussion surrounding how the league would operate in conjunction with the NSFL prior to it's opening in S3. Around this time a number of league building events such as player based tournaments were ran which Noble took part in as a guest GM, and towards the end of the season became Head Historian of a project that focused on tracking all of the major events in the league including awards, team player movements, overall team information, and records. He continued his work on the Top 50 list, but his second operation went under fire for having math involved that generally in retrospect made no sense at all.
Noble's third season in the league began as he led a second live-draft with commentary, and conducted a number of pocasts while seeing to it that the DSFL had a smooth transition into adulthood before suddenly his contributions to the league were cut short when it was announced that he had been involved in a season long scandal involving illegal TPE and editing of topics in order to change his predictions or completed tasks. He was punished a with a season long site wide ban, a moderation ban of five season, a fine, and his player would sit out the remainder of the season as well as having 73 TPE redacted from his build. It was an instant shift in the mentality that the user had towards the site, and upon his return did not have even close to the same level of commitment he had previously had.
Noble returned in S4 as expected, with a new friend joining him in Dustin Atkins, a S5 NSFL draftee who had been a solid earner since joining the league. Many quickly linked Atkins to being a multi, and even after video and photographic proof of the two existing separately and
After consistent offers to get on a call and prove they were separate people, the league's ban stood and both accounts were banned for life from the NSFL. Since then, we have not seen the return of Noble despite three rejected ban appeals from the Head Office. That is until now, with the new Head Office's allowance of Noble to return to the site under a number of conditions that were presented not only by Head Office, but offered up by Noble himself in order to attempt to minimize the impact of his return and have the community feel it had fairly punished him as a user.
Since joining the site, Noble has announced his plans to recreate as a S12 draftee at the position of wide receiver, and that he will be bringing back the Top 50 list as well as beginning an annual league wide magazine in order to earn the money that he will be lacking from his failure to take on a league job. After almost four years in the sim league community, countless players, and a number of scandals, is it finally possible that maybe Noble has changed enough to be a functioning member of the community? In his appeals it seemed that there was a distinct understanding of his actions and that he was willing to correct them and fall under set parameters in order to return to the site, but many people worry that he has said these things before and acted against them many times.
The Person
Alright so I'm switching over to my personal point of view now. First of all I want to make a huge apology to the people who left the site between the scandals of me and ErMurazor, and especially to the league as a whole who took the impact of those losses themselves. Everything that I did was completely unfair, and there really is no excuse to back what I did. Quite plain and simply, it was completely wrong and not something that I'm proud of. I completely understand that my reputation as a cheater has followed me through sim leagues and will continue to follow me should I return to them at the same level of activity that I once was, and I'm one hundred percent comfortable with accepting that as fact. What I do believe though is that there is a reason behind actions that goes further, and that I've finally come into a stage in my life where I'm comfortable talking about them.
It's no secret that I was very young when I joined sim leagues, and I mean very young. I first joined the SHL when I was barely thirteen years old, and looking back I wish I wouldn't have found them until I was a lot older, because I failed to grasp the idea that there were other people behind their computers until I got a lot older and realized the implications of my actions. My initial problems in the SHL I can completely base on my immaturity, but I can't say the same about the ones in the NSFL. I'm happy to say that I know I was a major contributor in my early days in the NSFL, and I had hoped to continue that through the rest of my career in the league, even after I was set to return following my season suspension. I think that past my age at the time, being fourteen years old I had some deeper rooted issues that more recently I've delved into and gotten a better grasp on that have helped me understand why I made some of the choices I did not only here, but also in real life.
The last time that I was here, I said some pretty stupid stuff and tried to make an excuse for my actions here by saying "I'm popular, what did you expect?" which is the absolute stupidest words to ever come out of my mouth. Modesty was definitely not my strong suit, and neither was admitting when I was wrong. In the year that I've been gone from sim leagues though, there definitely has been a lot of growing up and changes in my life that have impacted the way I look at myself and other completely. I remember back in November 2017 that I messaged the NSFL Discord because at fifteen years old I had gotten myself into a situation involving association with drug trafficking, and if that doesn't speak bound about where my mind was at during that time I don't know what does. Only a week after that message I was arrested and expelled from my high school for possession charges and spent a short time in rehab coming off a number of drug addictions. When I started to go down a wrong path, I went down it fast and got myself involved in a number of things I wish I didn't because I felt invincible, and that's where the idea of the popularity did come in. I felt like no matter what I did I couldn't hurt myself, because I was, to quote myself "up on a pedestal". I didn't see myself above other people, I saw me above myself and that's what really hurt me.
That winter, between schools I lost pretty well all of my friends, gained a horrible reputation and was in and out of the mental health center in Saskatoon between dealing with multiple suicide attempts, severe anxiety that presented itself in multiple panic attacks a day, terribly present ADHD, and what was prescribed as a developing borderline personality disorder. I had become so detached from myself that I eventually let it completely consume me. At one point I was taking up to six medications a day, and was on house arrest due to my charges that I consistently broke to continue to abuse drugs that only continued to get more and more dangerous. It wasn't until I got kicked out of the house for the first time and my long time girlfriend broke up with me that I realized I had a real problem that needed to be addressed. I went into full time detox, and in January was successfully able to call myself clean of all substances I had been consuming, most notably alcohol, nicotine, weed, cocaine, and ecstasy. Since then I haven't had a single relapse in my detox.
So now it's been ten months, and from less than a year ago I'm a completely different person. I'm in a the midst of a seven month relationship (which might seem short, but for a high school kid is astounding), I've returned to high school and I'm even enrolled in Advanced Placement classes, and I have found an interest again in both sports and music, two things that I quit completely during my dark period. I use writing and music as an outlet to talk about what I'm feeling and how I'm managing the stuff in my life including addictions, suicidal thoughts, and severe anxiety (which is still a major issue for me) and I use wrestling and the physicality of lacrosse and hockey + physical therapy of volleyball, track, and snowboarding to channel my aggression and pent up anxiety. I've moved over to online classes after signing a record deal for music out in Toronto, meaning I spend half of my time out of the city, and it has left me with a large amount of free time despite me playing six sports and having two jobs.
That brings me to where I am now, having successfully appealed my suspension here on the NSFL. As per my statements during my appeal, I'm not here to take on a major role in the league or to be someone that people see as a bright light in the community, but rather because I want to give back to the simulation community which for a large part of my life was a major distraction from the mental health problems that I had, even though I wasn't able to recognize that or see it for just how important it was to have an outlet like I did. I don't blame any of the above for why I did what I did, considering the events happened completely out of time chronologically with my ban, and likewise I don't blame my ban for any of the stuff that happened to me. Rather I found it befitting to say that in many ways this league helped me, and I can recognize it for what it is and appreciate the idea of a community now that I'm older, more mature, and moved out of the envelope that I had placed myself in. To me, just writing this and being able to show my vulnerability is what makes me feel that thankfully somewhere along the line, I finally learned how to be a decent person.
I want to give a huge thank you to @ADwyer87 and the rest of the Head Office for the opportunity to return, and I'm looking forward to making new connections with the members of this site I haven't met. Have a good day everyone.
*What's Changed? - bovovovo - 11-12-2018
Oh sweet pens is back I loved that guy
*What's Changed? - kckolbe - 11-12-2018
I know I am focusing on the wrong stuff, but Pierno still has you beat for worst single season performance as well as worst career.
*What's Changed? - Noble - 11-12-2018
(11-12-2018, 01:58 PM)kckolbe Wrote:I know I am focusing on the wrong stuff, but Pierno still has you beat for worst single season performance as well as worst career.
I can find some comfort in that
*What's Changed? - DeathOnReddit - 11-12-2018
Good job in getting rid of the drugs, stay clean my boy
*What's Changed? - Jiggly_333 - 11-12-2018
Was this series brought to us by Shane Dawson?
*nervously looks around, hoping someone gets the reference*
(I’ll give a real comment later)
*What's Changed? - infinitempg - 11-12-2018
As someone who joined immediately after your scandal and Er's scandal, this is kind of bizarre. Hope you don't mind the new Yeti management, there's been a lot of changes even while you were gone lol
*What's Changed? - Daybe - 11-12-2018
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*What's Changed? - infinitempg - 11-12-2018
(11-12-2018, 04:34 PM)Daybe Wrote:@NobleYeti have carried on a tradition of having sucky QBs
aww shit double self burn
*What's Changed? - ADwyer87 - 11-12-2018
WAR.
WAR NEVER CHANGES.