@37thchamber is right. By creating players with player names, saying what school they went to, drafting them, etc. we turn this into somewhat of a RPG game.
I think that we should be mindful of the title of the forum section. It is "NSFL Media," not "League Data" or "NSFL Sim Analysis." We should welcome people to take a creative approach to their characters vs. raw data analysis. After all, we have players such as myself and Amidships who are "brothers" in game, as is the same with flyeaglesfly and Rradum with Monty and Colby Jack. Are we saying that doing that is meaningless from a league lore/culture standpoint? Are we saying the only result of that is I could add a few extra words of flavor text to a media post about comparing our in-game stats? That seems really... boring.
That being said, you are probably onto something that we should provide more guidance and boundaries given some of the nonsense I have seen posted. There is a big difference between a post by me exploring what is going through a Asher Montain's mind after an unexpected trade vs. a post giving a play-by-play analysis of Asher's first game playing as himself in Madden NSFL 2039 or whatever. Just like an RPG game, things exploring a player's background, personality, psyche, flaws, strengths, or reactions to the happenings in the league should be encouraged. Statistical analysis and sim mechanics analysis is great, but if we are going to strip our players down to nothing more than an Identification Tool to examine our stats, than why are we all bothering playing in this community? Everyone can just grab a copy of the game and sim to their hearts content -- watch those stats rocket up!
We all know that sports media has no qualms about reporting on the happenings in a player's personal life, opinions, etc., so I think should steer away from penalizing or cheapening mediia posts about non-game things, but I do think that we all would agree that we would not expect to see an ESPN.com article on Tom Brady's Beef Wellington recipe.
I think that is where we should focus our attention when it comes to amending how media is graded/paid.
I think that we should be mindful of the title of the forum section. It is "NSFL Media," not "League Data" or "NSFL Sim Analysis." We should welcome people to take a creative approach to their characters vs. raw data analysis. After all, we have players such as myself and Amidships who are "brothers" in game, as is the same with flyeaglesfly and Rradum with Monty and Colby Jack. Are we saying that doing that is meaningless from a league lore/culture standpoint? Are we saying the only result of that is I could add a few extra words of flavor text to a media post about comparing our in-game stats? That seems really... boring.
That being said, you are probably onto something that we should provide more guidance and boundaries given some of the nonsense I have seen posted. There is a big difference between a post by me exploring what is going through a Asher Montain's mind after an unexpected trade vs. a post giving a play-by-play analysis of Asher's first game playing as himself in Madden NSFL 2039 or whatever. Just like an RPG game, things exploring a player's background, personality, psyche, flaws, strengths, or reactions to the happenings in the league should be encouraged. Statistical analysis and sim mechanics analysis is great, but if we are going to strip our players down to nothing more than an Identification Tool to examine our stats, than why are we all bothering playing in this community? Everyone can just grab a copy of the game and sim to their hearts content -- watch those stats rocket up!
We all know that sports media has no qualms about reporting on the happenings in a player's personal life, opinions, etc., so I think should steer away from penalizing or cheapening mediia posts about non-game things, but I do think that we all would agree that we would not expect to see an ESPN.com article on Tom Brady's Beef Wellington recipe.
I think that is where we should focus our attention when it comes to amending how media is graded/paid.
