Tier 2
6) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
I have been talking about this for the past few seasons in point tasks and past championship weeks, but the Arizona Outlaws are finally officially creeping into their championship window. If I remember correctly, we won't have anyone in regression this offseason which means our team can only improve and we have active players at literally every position except for filling out the entire offensive line, while we do have a few very active players there. Awards were just handed out last night and while no one on the Outlaws actually won any awards, the fact that we had a player or two nominated for almost every single award while the team remains incredibly young is very promising. On the offensive side of the ball, we will still be lead by one of the best quarterbacks in the league in the god that is Jay Cue. He's a multi-multi-multi-sport athlete but in the fall he decides to come around to Arizona to dominate the NSFL. He nearly won an MVP in his rookie season and now that we have finally managed to fill the offense with reliable weapons again, I have no doubt in my mind that he can get back to the form he showed then. Those weapons include Saba Donut as his WR1, Jah Bur-Berry as a WR2, and the rookie Thomas Passmann at WR3. Donut lead the league in receiving yards this past season and he is showing no signs of slowing down on that front. Cue will also have a great tight end option in Heath Evans, who just had a fantastic rookie season for the Outlaws and finished 3rd in TE of the year voting. Obviously, we can't forget about the big men up front and the little man in the back. Bruce Buckley came 3rd in OL of the year voting, also as a rookie, and he'll have his partner in crime, Calvin Golladay, protecting Cue and opening running lanes for up-and-coming tailback Baby Yoda. The offense is only starting to show it's true colors and next season I think they take a real leap forward. The Outlaws defense was what really shined for us this past season, and again, can really only get better since they are all so young. Shane Masters and Plop Miller both got votes for DT of the year and made life hell for opposing tailbacks and quarterbacks by racking up a combined 19 sacks and 10 TFL. This is running a little too long now so I'm going to trail off real quick. Keep an eye out for my player Galf Wilf and his linebacking duo, Stanisław "Big Stan" Koniecpolski, to continue to terrorize QBs and running backs and help make our already talented secondary look even better by forcing pressure.
Tier 2
7) Selflessness is one thing, but ultimately everyone wants to hear their own player’s name mentioned among the greats. Take some time, in 400 words or more, and discuss how your player’s (or past player’s) career is going so far. Are you matching any expectations you set out for yourself? Do you see yourself on a potentially award winning or Hall of Fame career trajectory? If your player is just starting out, what goals and visions do you have for yourself?
I'm going to briefly talk about my first player, Bucky Barnes before I start talking about my current player. When I created him, I wanted to make a Jamal Adams type player, someone who could do it all from basically any position on the defense while technically being listed as a safety. Unfortunately, he ended up playing at an above-average rate and getting sort of close to resembling Adams, in my opinion, but he was never quite good enough to be considered one of the top safeties in the league at really any point of his career. He only managed to get selected to 2 Pro Bowls in his 11-year career and the only personal award he won at the NSFL level was a Defensive Rookie of the Year in S9. All in all, on a personal level, kind of disappointing for the amount of work I put into him. Luckily, he did manage to win the big one in a huge upset victory in the S16 Ultimus Game with the Arizona Outlaws, so that is a great consolation for what was just a slightly above-average career. As for Galf Wilf, I feel like he has just come into the league in a very hyper-competitive part of the league's history. In my opinion, he has put on some fantastic performances in his brief 3-year career in the NSFL but has just been slightly outshone by some otherworldly numbers from his contemporaries. In S20, his rookie season, he was near the top of the league in total tackles, had a fair number of sacks and TFLs, but lost out on the defensive rookie of the year to Idlewyld who lead the league in TFLs as a rookie. An amazing feat. In S21, Wilf had a season that I personally thought was good enough for a Pro Bowl selection. He had 8 sacks, a TFL, 8 passes defended, and a pick; it really seemed like those numbers should have been good enough but I guess the voters felt otherwise as he was left off the team again. This past season Wilf finally managed to get the monkey off his back and make this season's ASFC Pro Bowl team in addition to getting a vote or 2 for linebacker of the year. I didn't expect to be winning any personal awards this early in his career but it is nice that he is starting to get recognized for his efforts and make it onto the ballot. Hopefully, he can keep up his career trajectory and continue to improve to the point that he will keep getting selected to the Pro Bowl, eventually win a linebacker of the year, and eventually win the big game at the end of the year a few times.
6) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
I have been talking about this for the past few seasons in point tasks and past championship weeks, but the Arizona Outlaws are finally officially creeping into their championship window. If I remember correctly, we won't have anyone in regression this offseason which means our team can only improve and we have active players at literally every position except for filling out the entire offensive line, while we do have a few very active players there. Awards were just handed out last night and while no one on the Outlaws actually won any awards, the fact that we had a player or two nominated for almost every single award while the team remains incredibly young is very promising. On the offensive side of the ball, we will still be lead by one of the best quarterbacks in the league in the god that is Jay Cue. He's a multi-multi-multi-sport athlete but in the fall he decides to come around to Arizona to dominate the NSFL. He nearly won an MVP in his rookie season and now that we have finally managed to fill the offense with reliable weapons again, I have no doubt in my mind that he can get back to the form he showed then. Those weapons include Saba Donut as his WR1, Jah Bur-Berry as a WR2, and the rookie Thomas Passmann at WR3. Donut lead the league in receiving yards this past season and he is showing no signs of slowing down on that front. Cue will also have a great tight end option in Heath Evans, who just had a fantastic rookie season for the Outlaws and finished 3rd in TE of the year voting. Obviously, we can't forget about the big men up front and the little man in the back. Bruce Buckley came 3rd in OL of the year voting, also as a rookie, and he'll have his partner in crime, Calvin Golladay, protecting Cue and opening running lanes for up-and-coming tailback Baby Yoda. The offense is only starting to show it's true colors and next season I think they take a real leap forward. The Outlaws defense was what really shined for us this past season, and again, can really only get better since they are all so young. Shane Masters and Plop Miller both got votes for DT of the year and made life hell for opposing tailbacks and quarterbacks by racking up a combined 19 sacks and 10 TFL. This is running a little too long now so I'm going to trail off real quick. Keep an eye out for my player Galf Wilf and his linebacking duo, Stanisław "Big Stan" Koniecpolski, to continue to terrorize QBs and running backs and help make our already talented secondary look even better by forcing pressure.
Tier 2
7) Selflessness is one thing, but ultimately everyone wants to hear their own player’s name mentioned among the greats. Take some time, in 400 words or more, and discuss how your player’s (or past player’s) career is going so far. Are you matching any expectations you set out for yourself? Do you see yourself on a potentially award winning or Hall of Fame career trajectory? If your player is just starting out, what goals and visions do you have for yourself?
I'm going to briefly talk about my first player, Bucky Barnes before I start talking about my current player. When I created him, I wanted to make a Jamal Adams type player, someone who could do it all from basically any position on the defense while technically being listed as a safety. Unfortunately, he ended up playing at an above-average rate and getting sort of close to resembling Adams, in my opinion, but he was never quite good enough to be considered one of the top safeties in the league at really any point of his career. He only managed to get selected to 2 Pro Bowls in his 11-year career and the only personal award he won at the NSFL level was a Defensive Rookie of the Year in S9. All in all, on a personal level, kind of disappointing for the amount of work I put into him. Luckily, he did manage to win the big one in a huge upset victory in the S16 Ultimus Game with the Arizona Outlaws, so that is a great consolation for what was just a slightly above-average career. As for Galf Wilf, I feel like he has just come into the league in a very hyper-competitive part of the league's history. In my opinion, he has put on some fantastic performances in his brief 3-year career in the NSFL but has just been slightly outshone by some otherworldly numbers from his contemporaries. In S20, his rookie season, he was near the top of the league in total tackles, had a fair number of sacks and TFLs, but lost out on the defensive rookie of the year to Idlewyld who lead the league in TFLs as a rookie. An amazing feat. In S21, Wilf had a season that I personally thought was good enough for a Pro Bowl selection. He had 8 sacks, a TFL, 8 passes defended, and a pick; it really seemed like those numbers should have been good enough but I guess the voters felt otherwise as he was left off the team again. This past season Wilf finally managed to get the monkey off his back and make this season's ASFC Pro Bowl team in addition to getting a vote or 2 for linebacker of the year. I didn't expect to be winning any personal awards this early in his career but it is nice that he is starting to get recognized for his efforts and make it onto the ballot. Hopefully, he can keep up his career trajectory and continue to improve to the point that he will keep getting selected to the Pro Bowl, eventually win a linebacker of the year, and eventually win the big game at the end of the year a few times.
