*Statosauruz Podcast #1

[Memento Mori]

Really enjoyed the pod, hope you continue to make them. Quick point on the comparison you made between Dallas and Myrtle Beach - know you didn’t mean it in a negative way and hope you don’t take my response negatively either.

You said Myrtle Beach has 7 more capped send downs, and 6 are S21. Obviously as an expansion team Dallas didn’t have an S21 draft class so has no S21 send downs. So the discrepancy is only one once you take that into account, and following the S23 NSFL Draft the teams will be in essentially the same position in that they’ll both have two draft classes of potentially capped send downs to draw from.

It’d be nice if the number of send downs was largely equal across the DSFL, because as you said the teams with more send downs generally win more games. But the alternative would mean forcing players who aren’t going to play in the NSFL (such as our two capped quarterbacks who aren’t high enough TPE to start for any NSFL team) to be called up so that they can ride the bench. It makes the DSFL less competitive, but it keeps players interested better as they get to see their players continue to play in the DSFL until they’re ready for the NSFL rather than being made to ride an NSFL bench.

Know you didn’t suggest that as a solution, but some teams having more send downs than others seems like the least-bad option when you think about the alternatives.