My biggest What-If is what if the Yeti beat the Legion in Week 12 of Season 2? There were multiple unlucky events that kept the Yeti out of the playoffs that season that would have allowed them to make it if that event change, but none were more unlucky than the Legion loss. As the Co-GM of the Yeti that season, I did a lot of test sims that season, and we won that game against the Legion in 92 out of 100 test sims. The fact that the actual sim was a loss for us was incredibly unlucky. This loss was huge as it was the difference between entering the playoffs on a 5 game winning streak with the best record in the NSFC and a home playoff game and missing out on the playoffs altogether due to a tiebreaker. But I wonder what would have happened if we won that game and made the playoffs. We had over a 70% against the Hawks at home, so I think we would have made it to the Ultimus game for the second year in a row. We would have had to play the Outlaws in Arizona again. However, from the test sims I did earlier in the season when we played the Outlaws, we had about a 45% chance to beat them in Arizona. When we played in Arizona earlier in the season we only lost by 5 and one of their touchdowns was set up by a blocked punt so we easily could have won that. If we had the chance to play them again and look at the strategies they used against us last time, we still wouldn't have been favorites, but I think there was a decent chance we could have won that game and won the championship that season.
It's interesting to wonder what kind of ripple effects this could have had for the Yeti. We had a wave of players either go inactive or request trades over that offseason, but I have to think maybe they would have had a different attitude if the season ended with an exciting championship run rather than missing the playoffs in disappointing fashion. Although many of the players who left us that offseason ended up together again on the Legion during the mass retirement, so maybe that Yeti team was a ticking time bomb anyway and we would have been the team with the mass retirement if those players had stayed around. Maybe if he already won a championship, Noble wouldn't have felt the need to cheat and would have still been the Yeti's quarterback. Or if Noble still had gotten suspended and we weren't already in a rebuild, maybe we would have switched an existing player like Tweed to quarterback instead of spending so much time developing Pierno. It's possible that one loss was the difference between the Yeti remaining a powerhouse and turning into a bottom feeder.
I also wonder what the Yeti management would have looked like if we had made the playoffs and potentially won the championship that year. Would I still be a GM of the Yeti? I didn't really have the time to manage a GM job anymore at that point, but it would have been hard to step down right after winning a championship so maybe I would have forced myself to stick with it. This could have been good or bad as maybe I would have become a good GM with years of experience or maybe I would be too overbooked and wouldn't have done the job properly but would have felt a duty to stick with it. Perhaps deadendpath would still be around if not for that loss. I don't remember the exact timeline of him leaving and I never found out why he left so suddenly, but I'm pretty sure it was around the time of the Legion loss so its possible that game was a last straw for him and maybe he would have stayed active and would still be our GM if we had made the playoffs. If we were picking much later in the draft, would we have still been able to trade up and draft Antonio Sandoval? If not, TheMemeMaestro wouldn't have become GM. We needed OL pretty badly that season, so it's likely our Plan B if we couldn't get Sandoval would have been to draft Archon. Would he have become head GM of the Yeti in this scenario? I can only imagine what kind of disaster that would have been, as it was bad enough when he ghosted as a Co-GM but it would have been even worse if he were a head GM.
I wonder how different the legacy of the Yeti would look with a deep playoff run that season. Even if everything afterwards went the same, maybe it would have been easier going through the rebuild if my player already had a ring. Maybe the Yeti would have been more respected even in their struggles if they were the only NSFC team with a championship. It's interesting to think that the entire history of the franchise was probably altered by that one loss that only had an 8% chance of happening.
It's interesting to wonder what kind of ripple effects this could have had for the Yeti. We had a wave of players either go inactive or request trades over that offseason, but I have to think maybe they would have had a different attitude if the season ended with an exciting championship run rather than missing the playoffs in disappointing fashion. Although many of the players who left us that offseason ended up together again on the Legion during the mass retirement, so maybe that Yeti team was a ticking time bomb anyway and we would have been the team with the mass retirement if those players had stayed around. Maybe if he already won a championship, Noble wouldn't have felt the need to cheat and would have still been the Yeti's quarterback. Or if Noble still had gotten suspended and we weren't already in a rebuild, maybe we would have switched an existing player like Tweed to quarterback instead of spending so much time developing Pierno. It's possible that one loss was the difference between the Yeti remaining a powerhouse and turning into a bottom feeder.
I also wonder what the Yeti management would have looked like if we had made the playoffs and potentially won the championship that year. Would I still be a GM of the Yeti? I didn't really have the time to manage a GM job anymore at that point, but it would have been hard to step down right after winning a championship so maybe I would have forced myself to stick with it. This could have been good or bad as maybe I would have become a good GM with years of experience or maybe I would be too overbooked and wouldn't have done the job properly but would have felt a duty to stick with it. Perhaps deadendpath would still be around if not for that loss. I don't remember the exact timeline of him leaving and I never found out why he left so suddenly, but I'm pretty sure it was around the time of the Legion loss so its possible that game was a last straw for him and maybe he would have stayed active and would still be our GM if we had made the playoffs. If we were picking much later in the draft, would we have still been able to trade up and draft Antonio Sandoval? If not, TheMemeMaestro wouldn't have become GM. We needed OL pretty badly that season, so it's likely our Plan B if we couldn't get Sandoval would have been to draft Archon. Would he have become head GM of the Yeti in this scenario? I can only imagine what kind of disaster that would have been, as it was bad enough when he ghosted as a Co-GM but it would have been even worse if he were a head GM.
I wonder how different the legacy of the Yeti would look with a deep playoff run that season. Even if everything afterwards went the same, maybe it would have been easier going through the rebuild if my player already had a ring. Maybe the Yeti would have been more respected even in their struggles if they were the only NSFC team with a championship. It's interesting to think that the entire history of the franchise was probably altered by that one loss that only had an 8% chance of happening.
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