(S20) - Ultimus Week

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4) Rivalry
Written: Which team or player would you consider to be your greatest rival? Write 200 words on why you are rivals with them and why you want them to lose (don’t harass other users please).

Vladimir Fyodorovich finally came to an end as he played last game during WC in S19 playoffs and one thing he was consequent about during his career was hatred towards the team that gets rid of him after rookie year, without any warning prior - Orange Country Otters. It seemed that my recreate, Stanis?aw Koniecpolski, may be free of that aversion, but since he had to add backstory in his wiki page, he spends some long time traveling with Vladimir he was cheering for them to fail and lose against NOLA in the WC game last week. Still, if his name came up in the draft he isn't set on not joining any team, tough while any other team could basically count on his loyalty throughout (as long as its mutual) the same couldn't be said about Otters, since all-league, including him, looks for the day they become bottom feeders and miss the playoffs. So if they drafted him, preferably with very high pick he could return the favor of being drafted and thrown away previously by either not signing at all and making them waste draft pick or signing one year deal and bolting as soon as possible. Still, it's just a possibility and if they changed and don't have some vicious characters from the past anymore he could reconsider.

6) Expansion
Written: There have been a lot of new players entering the league recently. If you were in charge of a new expansion team for the NSFL or DSFL, how would you go about it?

I recently proposed a Caribbean team for PBE, but it makes more sense there since baseball is far more popular there than American Football. Also not sure if this question slash prompt is more about the branding or direction of the team going forward so I'll write a bit about both since it's easier to hit word count that way (Championship week shouldn't be 200 words per task too, have some mercy). Some big cities are missing from the NSFL/DSFL combined map like New York (which could be represented by Brooklyn or Manhattan, but since we have those in another sim league I'd love to see the Bronx or Queens-based team). I don't count Otters Country as proper location either, due to their mischevious nature so let's make proper LA team in Anaheim or another part of Inland Empire. Saint Louis & Oakland deserve the NSFL team too after NFL robbed them of their locations. As for the direction of the team, I had my shot at DSFL GMing so won't do that again, but the active LR is main priority, and the testing too, since in this potato sim even some boneheaded ideas might eventually work and turn out to be the best possible option to win some crucial games.

8) Scouting Report
Written: Write a scouting report for one of the incoming draftees in either the NSFL or DSFL.

Stanis?aw Koniecpolski already played some games in DSFL after being picked up on Waivers during the S20 late part of the season. In his first game against Grey Ducks, he recorded 8 tackles & even tackle for loss, which is already better than Vladimir Fyodorovich entire defensive career as a cornerback. Next came away, one more defeat, @Tijuana, but individually it was good effort as he got 2 tackles, sack & deflected pass, showcasing his all-around game. Then in the penultimate game of regular season once Minnesota team dismantled Kansas City, but at least Stanis?aw put up big numbers with 11 tackles, 3 tackles for loss and once more single deflected pass. Coyotes were able to win their 5th game as they fought against their rivals Portland Pythons, Koniecpolski once more filled the stat sheet with 6 tackles, 1 tackle for loss and single deflected pass. Unfortunately, the playoffs dream quickly ended as they lost once more to Grey Ducks, where Stanis?aw was only able to get 11 tackles, which didn't stop opponents from scoring 36 points. He is now looking forward, focused and ready to the DSFL draft and next year to stepping up quickly to NSFL, he also played plenty WR and has warfare experience to help that position if the team that want to draft him would prefer that instead.

10) Reform
Written: If you were in charge of managing the league, what changes would you make to make it better run?

I actually made some proposals, two most recent were focused on recreates and one of them (training camp extended) was approved while another is still in the limbo - the rookie tasks awarding TPE, which almost incentivize recreating as a new account and being first-gen technically instead of continuing old account, which seems rather silly. While recent recruitment drives have been a fantastic success the choice of really quick and rampant regression kind of forces league reliance on recreates, especially in the job department where you need at least some share of experienced people. So either eliminate TPE from that task giving equal chances for everyone and make a similar task for recreating users, like having them make a summary of the previous character or finishing the wiki page. Another issue I think exists in this league is that some jobs are underpaid - like the PT department is really intensive here needing to create several predictions thread on the week and pay per season for it is comparable to 2500 words media article. PT passes are a nice trick, but this could help with job retention too. Having clear job section to find what is being opened could help too, recently I spend quite some time before I could even say which jobs were looking for people since job applications subforum is an unmanaged mess.