(S23) - PT 5 - A New Leaf

[Jay_Doctor]

I honestly feel that the league is as strong as it has ever been. I come in having only been around for about 20% of that, but still the point remains. There isn’t a lot that I strongly disagree with to the point I would fight about it. I trust the heads in charge have continually made choices for the betterment of the league. I also feel that they have not gotten enough praise for that work. There have been some absolutely brutal choices that have had to be made and HO has come through time and again. My biggest gripe about the now ISFL would be the sim itself. Yes, it’s the most talked about thing imaginable. Still, it can be a big source of frustration. I’ve heard that we have tried to reach out to Wolverine being one of their biggest advertisers of the game and didn’t get much of a response. It would be nice to get our version updated though. We will be coming up on a version that is 5 years old soon. I know the current limitations of the new one makes it difficult to stream, so maybe it’s not an option. Here’s to hoping OOTP makes a sim for football. It sounds like they were working on a project called Front Office Football, but in the last month have tabled it. For actual league development, I have unoriginal ideas to mention. I believe the newsletter said it was in progress, but the PBE sidebar is glorious and would make life easier here. I also like the idea of making updates easier via an application or google doc updater. Anything to make the updater’s lives easier is a big plus. Also, keep creating league jobs. No matter how specific or small it is, I think the opportunity to get even more people involved if they want to is a good thing. Lastly, and possibly the most spicy, expand with 4 more teams in the NSFL. I understand the argument for taking things only 2 teams at a time and that’s probably the best course of action, but it seems inevitable that we have multiple expansions on the horizon. 16 teams would realistically be an amazing number structurally. Having 16 would allow 2 divisions within each conference. It would be interesting to see what the playoff structure would be then. Do Division winners get a bye then or does it go purely by record? Playoffs would then jump to 8 teams as well now. No more byes that list a team playing them because the sim can’t figure out how to show a bye. The actual headache a 4-team expansion would cause seems quite large, but I would like to think that doing one bigger expansion would almost be easier on everyone compared to two smaller ones potentially close together. The biggest hold up would be getting another reddit class. This whole idea seems not so great if a bigger class is not coming through.