*NSFL vs. NFL Team Comparison

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Baltimore Hawks // Buffalo Bills

The main story for the Baltimore Hawks is lost Championship games. They’ve appeared in the Ultimus an impressive total of 8 times, second only to the Otters (and we’ll get to that later), but have only managed to win 2 of them. So the Hawks have 6 Ultimus loses. I’ll repeat that, the Hawks have 6 Ultimus Loses. This screams 1991-1994 Bills. Advancing to the Super Bowl a record 4 consecutive times, the Bills lost each time. Great teams and great playoff performances went to waste, without a single victory for them to cherish. At least the Hawks can look back on the two seasons they’ve won the Ultimus, but historically they have had great seasons come up short in the big game.

We actually made this comparison a lot when I was on the team. It def felt that way sometimes.

Colorado Yeti // Minnesota Vikings

If you talk to any veteran player about Colorado, the first thing they’ll say is that they’re cursed. They’ve only been to the Ultimus once despite 9 seasons with playoff appearances. That was in Season 13, where they lost a close game against the Otters 24-21. From what I can tell, and again from my interactions with veterans, the Yeti have terrible sim luck. A small example of this would be their 2 games against the liberty this year. At the time of writing this portion of the article, the Yeti are 6-5 and the Liberty are 3-8, with 2 of Liberty’s only wins coming against Colorado. The Yeti probably should have been able to win both those games, especially their home game, but the sim decided otherwise (and I am not trying to discredit the efforts of the Liberty here, but admittedly it’s a surprise that they pulled off both of those upsets). The Yeti have the 3rd highest average TPE per player, ahead of the 9-2 OCO, and a lot of people had them as favorites to win it all this season (which is definitely still possible) in the season's predictions point task. Now this is similar to the vikings in almost every way. Since 1990, the vikings have made the playoffs 15 times, losing 4 conference championship games, 4 division games, and 7 wildcard games. They’ve had great teams during that 30 year span, but were never able to make it all the way to the Super Bowl. The 1998 Vikings with the trio of Randall Cunningham, Randy Moss and Chris Carter, could be argued to be one of the best teams in history, but they failed to reach the Super Bowl. The Yeti and the Vikings both share this failure in the playoffs, and that is what makes them so similar.

Honestly, not a bad comparison. Although the Yeti went to the first Ultimus. So we've made two total appearances.





Good article!