8) 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?
Ok another Ultimus Week and another year that I'm examining how the Yeti can get back to the big dance. Last season at this time my hopes were (perhaps admittedly) a little too high that the Yeti would be able to make it back to the Ultimus and win the whole thing. I was riding high from one of the most classic Ultimus games we've ever had in our league history and of course, when you come out victorious from that, who'd think that there was anything they couldn't accomplish? As it turns out this season was actually really pretty balanced as there was a lot of parity between the teams. It makes for an exciting season, but for terrible predictability. When you take this into account then, the Yeti really were pretty close to doing it all again this season. Home field advantage, the ever elusive anti-equalizer, just so happened to fall to the yelloknife wraiths when it could have just as easily gone to the Yeti and set a different outcome.
So what do we have to build upon then? Well, for one, the dynasty of the Yellowknife Wraiths may have finally come to an end with the retirement of Cooter Bigsby. He was not only the heart and soul of that team as he led them to like 5 conference championships in a row, but the Wraiths will have to wait a season or two for their replacement QB to rise to Cooter's level. This leaves a power vacuum in the conference, one that will be readily filled by the Colorado Yeti who take no noticeable steps back. Yes, their own QB, Wolfie, has also regressed, but not to the same level as other QBs--he'll be near the top of his performance by the end of the season just in time to peak in the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Yeti have added talent in other areas, most notably at LB with the signing of Ephenssta, one of the most coveted FAs of the season. Reports have it that Colorado have their eyes on another top FA in the pipeline as well, who, assuming he signs with the team, would make for the one of the greatest FA periods by a team in a long time.
For the current moment, it seems that the Coloado Yeti's biggest concern will be the Baltimore Hawks who finally seem to have their QB situation under control with the up and coming Chika Fujiwara. The Hawks were a surprise success this past season, but assuming the Yeti will be able to lock down HFA, won't be a match for the Colorado team who will find themselves in the championship game once again.
18) Create a billboard, magazine cover, or video game cover depicting a superstar of the league. Graphics only.
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@C9Van
24) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
I suppose that I will talk about in institution of Twitter for this league. I don't think that Twitter has always been something that the league has paid out for. Now, i admit that I could be wrong about this. But I think that they started to pay players for tweets starting around when I joined the league in S6. At that time, people just created twitter accounts because it was fun and another way to interact with others around the league to give a sense of realism. Once they started to pay people for it, then others joined and it became more fun. Over time this participation started to drop off because you could only earn about 600k per week ( i think it was 200k per tweet, up to three per week). So, they incentivized it more with the modern payout. Along with a good Twitter head, we've seen our twitter presence grow considerably over the last few seasons (about 1 year irl) to where there is now a lot of chattering going on on twitter as well. We recently even had a tampering punishment for a tweet sent out by an official account. I think that overall this is a positive thing for the league. Its a worthwhile way to earn enough for almost a full weekly training each week, and it adds some exposure for the league. I don't know if we ever got anyone new to the league solely through twitter but I am confident that it will happen some day as we continue to grow on this platform.
Ok another Ultimus Week and another year that I'm examining how the Yeti can get back to the big dance. Last season at this time my hopes were (perhaps admittedly) a little too high that the Yeti would be able to make it back to the Ultimus and win the whole thing. I was riding high from one of the most classic Ultimus games we've ever had in our league history and of course, when you come out victorious from that, who'd think that there was anything they couldn't accomplish? As it turns out this season was actually really pretty balanced as there was a lot of parity between the teams. It makes for an exciting season, but for terrible predictability. When you take this into account then, the Yeti really were pretty close to doing it all again this season. Home field advantage, the ever elusive anti-equalizer, just so happened to fall to the yelloknife wraiths when it could have just as easily gone to the Yeti and set a different outcome.
So what do we have to build upon then? Well, for one, the dynasty of the Yellowknife Wraiths may have finally come to an end with the retirement of Cooter Bigsby. He was not only the heart and soul of that team as he led them to like 5 conference championships in a row, but the Wraiths will have to wait a season or two for their replacement QB to rise to Cooter's level. This leaves a power vacuum in the conference, one that will be readily filled by the Colorado Yeti who take no noticeable steps back. Yes, their own QB, Wolfie, has also regressed, but not to the same level as other QBs--he'll be near the top of his performance by the end of the season just in time to peak in the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Yeti have added talent in other areas, most notably at LB with the signing of Ephenssta, one of the most coveted FAs of the season. Reports have it that Colorado have their eyes on another top FA in the pipeline as well, who, assuming he signs with the team, would make for the one of the greatest FA periods by a team in a long time.
For the current moment, it seems that the Coloado Yeti's biggest concern will be the Baltimore Hawks who finally seem to have their QB situation under control with the up and coming Chika Fujiwara. The Hawks were a surprise success this past season, but assuming the Yeti will be able to lock down HFA, won't be a match for the Colorado team who will find themselves in the championship game once again.
18) Create a billboard, magazine cover, or video game cover depicting a superstar of the league. Graphics only.
@C9Van
24) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
I suppose that I will talk about in institution of Twitter for this league. I don't think that Twitter has always been something that the league has paid out for. Now, i admit that I could be wrong about this. But I think that they started to pay players for tweets starting around when I joined the league in S6. At that time, people just created twitter accounts because it was fun and another way to interact with others around the league to give a sense of realism. Once they started to pay people for it, then others joined and it became more fun. Over time this participation started to drop off because you could only earn about 600k per week ( i think it was 200k per tweet, up to three per week). So, they incentivized it more with the modern payout. Along with a good Twitter head, we've seen our twitter presence grow considerably over the last few seasons (about 1 year irl) to where there is now a lot of chattering going on on twitter as well. We recently even had a tampering punishment for a tweet sent out by an official account. I think that overall this is a positive thing for the league. Its a worthwhile way to earn enough for almost a full weekly training each week, and it adds some exposure for the league. I don't know if we ever got anyone new to the league solely through twitter but I am confident that it will happen some day as we continue to grow on this platform.
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