*NSFL/DSFL Proposal

[Memento Mori]

TL;DR: I really dislike this idea. I wrote this on my phone just after waking up so apologies for any typos or bad formatting.

everyone knows you kick back, relax and enjoy your TPE with games that Just Don’t Matter because no GMs really care about the stats or results in the DSFL.

We’ve just had GMs from three different teams involved in punishments where the GMs were taking the DSFL too seriously and being overly competitive. An advisory board has been established to help tackle this. So... no.

for a majority of players, it’s just a purgatory one has to travel through before you are considered as worth looking into.

Only recreates feel this way, in my experience. The only person I’ve seen say this was a recreate, and their comment was met with surprise from newer users. The DSFL is designed to introduce people to the league and promote activity, which I think it does really well.

Many people have said that saturation of players can be an issue. I couldn’t disagree more!There are currently 12 NSFL teams along with 8 DSFL teams. This is 20 teams for positions with 1 starter (QB, K/P etc.), 40 for 2 position starters (WR, Safeties) 60 for 3, etc. (CBs, Linebackers). If each team gets an affiliate, you go up to 24 (12 NSFL / 12 DSFL) and all of the multiples that are created too. This opens up even more opportunity for rookies to make a mark and attain such opportunities that might not have otherwise existed for them.

Have they? The league expands when this becomes a problem, or even before. I don’t really like the idea of expanding the DSFL instead of the NSFL when we have enough players. That would make players, on the whole, stay in the DSFL longer. I’d much rather the DSFL remain smaller and the NSFL expand to 14 or 16 teams. Two conferences, each with two divisions of 4 teams would be really cool imo. I don’t care how many DSFL trams we have.

Another point brought to my attention is that inside a more structured system such as this one is that players become too “cliquey” and wont interact as much with players outside of their organization unlike they do now. This is another point I completely disagree with, as even in the current system, GMs tend to draft players they know this is complicated by the fact that there is not a lot of movement in the FA market. Players tend to stay with the people they were drafted with and the teams they are drafted to.

Please no. As you said, people are already cliquey. Tying people to their first organisation even more and even earlier seems intuitively like it’d discourage player movement even more.

I also propose that a DSFL Commissioner/HO (subsection of the NSFL Commissioner and HO) is created (or empowered if it already exists) to ensure that all teams are holding to the spirit of the rules

We already do have a DSFL Commissioner, but creating a DSFL HO is something I’m on board with and something myself and others have suggested recently. The advisory board that’s just been established seems like a step in that direction. I think we should have a DSFL HO, but it should exist to help fix any current problems with the DSFL rather than radically overhauling it imo.

EDIT: the DSFL commissioner has yet to be replaced after manic recently stepped down, so the position is currently empty.