6) (As a side note, I really wish the history of the league would be better preserved, as the Wiki lacks info even as crucial as the past Ultimus bowls, so if anything in my article is wrong, please excuse my ignorance)
First of all, I want to give a big congratulations to the team I will be writing about for winning the Ultimus this year: Yellowknife Wraiths, you deserved it. As probably most offensive players, I liked your style of outscoring your opponents instead of relying on your defense too much. I liked how you made winning the Ultimus game look easy, putting so many points on the board against a great opponent like the Copperheads who also had a great team this season. As a wide receiver I certainly appreciate your pass-heavy offense, while also featuring one of the best running games in the league. Not gonna lie, having both Haynadi and Acura Skyline on the same team is kind of unfair to all other teams. In combination with your receiving squad it‘s no surprise you put up those insane numbers. I know the regular season is long over, but I‘m sure some Chicago Butchers fans still have nightmares about that time in week three when they had to play you. My poor Hahalua didn't fare that much better.
Ignoring your performance in the regular season, I think you also deserved the win based on your incredible bad luck in the past. Making it to the Ultimus game year after year, season after season, only to lose that one game that decides it all must have been heart-breaking. Yet you always managed to push hard again the next season, make it to another Ultimus bowl only for the same thing to happen. It shows a lot about the character of your players and your front office that you kept working hard year after year to finally get that win you desperately wanted. I know some people, myself included, mocked you a bit for it, but I‘m sure they‘re all happy that the tragic heroes finally got their happy ending. Also congratulations to every single player on your squad. They really stepped up in the Ultimus game. There wasn't a single disappointing player on offense or defense and when you have so many people you can rely on because you just know they can make a play, it‘s almost impossible to beat a team. Like you can‘t cover "the best player" if everyone plays like the star of the team.
I hope you‘re all sobered up after the big celebrations in your small town and I sincerely hope that you won‘t repeat either your cruel losing streak in the Ultimus or the playoff drought you had to endure after your lone playoff win before that one in season eight. It would really be a shame if the playoffs over the next season would have no Canadian participant.
13) I support the introduction of a new award for both the International Simulation Football league and the Developmental Simulation Football League and I call it the "Most efficient offensive player of the year" award. Now we already have several awards for offensive and defensive players and they all deserve to be given out but when you think of objectively good players, you usually think of the ones that put up the big numbers. And sure, it‘s nice if you‘re the quarterback with the highest quarterback rating, the running back with the most rushing yards or the edge rusher with the most sacks. But what about those guys that don‘t put up those huge numbers but are super valuable to their team?
Look at this year‘s receiving stats. The players with the most yards usually need more than 100 yards to score one touchdown. Isn't that insane? They have to run over one whole length of a football field for just one score. A guy like Baltimore‘s Quinn score one touchdown for every 284.5 yards he ran, Sarasota‘s Angler even needed an average of 305 yards per touchdown! Now on the other side of the spectrum we have players like New Orleans‘ McCormick with 86.5 yards per touchdown and – probably unsurprisingly – myself, William Alexander, with 94.8 yards per touchdown. As I came up with the idea for the award and should clearly be the first winner, I suggest you name it in my honor. Thanks!
21) I don‘t want to bash any other team or say that my team, the Honolulu Hahalua, were better and this other team, the Austin Copperheads, didn't deserve to be in the playoffs, I just want to show that it was very close and that we ultimately would have deserved to make it with just a little more luck on our side.
As you may know it was a very close playoff race this year in the ASFC and the Austin Copperheads made it in with a record of 8-8, while my beloved Rays had to watch other teams have fun after going 7-9 in just our second year of existence with a very young squad. And as you probably also know, the Austin Copperheads made it to the Ultimus bowl this season, proving that anything is possible in the playoffs and that nobody cares about the regular season, once the madness of the post-season starts.
The teams both one each game in our direct matchup so that‘s a good indicator that they were pretty much on the same level. However the Hahalua win came later in the season and was more convincing, given it was a 40-3 blowout. The Hahalua also showed that they‘re good at playing the big teams, beating the Liberty, Yeti, Copperheads, Otters and Second Line in the regular season. Who knows, with a good run the team could have made it to the Ultimus, too. Sure, you can criticize that in the end we lost the easy games we should have won against the not-so-great teams and that‘s both fair and true. However I still believe that it was a very close race in the ASFC and that we weren't one bit worse than the teams that got into the playoffs.
First of all, I want to give a big congratulations to the team I will be writing about for winning the Ultimus this year: Yellowknife Wraiths, you deserved it. As probably most offensive players, I liked your style of outscoring your opponents instead of relying on your defense too much. I liked how you made winning the Ultimus game look easy, putting so many points on the board against a great opponent like the Copperheads who also had a great team this season. As a wide receiver I certainly appreciate your pass-heavy offense, while also featuring one of the best running games in the league. Not gonna lie, having both Haynadi and Acura Skyline on the same team is kind of unfair to all other teams. In combination with your receiving squad it‘s no surprise you put up those insane numbers. I know the regular season is long over, but I‘m sure some Chicago Butchers fans still have nightmares about that time in week three when they had to play you. My poor Hahalua didn't fare that much better.
Ignoring your performance in the regular season, I think you also deserved the win based on your incredible bad luck in the past. Making it to the Ultimus game year after year, season after season, only to lose that one game that decides it all must have been heart-breaking. Yet you always managed to push hard again the next season, make it to another Ultimus bowl only for the same thing to happen. It shows a lot about the character of your players and your front office that you kept working hard year after year to finally get that win you desperately wanted. I know some people, myself included, mocked you a bit for it, but I‘m sure they‘re all happy that the tragic heroes finally got their happy ending. Also congratulations to every single player on your squad. They really stepped up in the Ultimus game. There wasn't a single disappointing player on offense or defense and when you have so many people you can rely on because you just know they can make a play, it‘s almost impossible to beat a team. Like you can‘t cover "the best player" if everyone plays like the star of the team.
I hope you‘re all sobered up after the big celebrations in your small town and I sincerely hope that you won‘t repeat either your cruel losing streak in the Ultimus or the playoff drought you had to endure after your lone playoff win before that one in season eight. It would really be a shame if the playoffs over the next season would have no Canadian participant.
13) I support the introduction of a new award for both the International Simulation Football league and the Developmental Simulation Football League and I call it the "Most efficient offensive player of the year" award. Now we already have several awards for offensive and defensive players and they all deserve to be given out but when you think of objectively good players, you usually think of the ones that put up the big numbers. And sure, it‘s nice if you‘re the quarterback with the highest quarterback rating, the running back with the most rushing yards or the edge rusher with the most sacks. But what about those guys that don‘t put up those huge numbers but are super valuable to their team?
Look at this year‘s receiving stats. The players with the most yards usually need more than 100 yards to score one touchdown. Isn't that insane? They have to run over one whole length of a football field for just one score. A guy like Baltimore‘s Quinn score one touchdown for every 284.5 yards he ran, Sarasota‘s Angler even needed an average of 305 yards per touchdown! Now on the other side of the spectrum we have players like New Orleans‘ McCormick with 86.5 yards per touchdown and – probably unsurprisingly – myself, William Alexander, with 94.8 yards per touchdown. As I came up with the idea for the award and should clearly be the first winner, I suggest you name it in my honor. Thanks!
21) I don‘t want to bash any other team or say that my team, the Honolulu Hahalua, were better and this other team, the Austin Copperheads, didn't deserve to be in the playoffs, I just want to show that it was very close and that we ultimately would have deserved to make it with just a little more luck on our side.
As you may know it was a very close playoff race this year in the ASFC and the Austin Copperheads made it in with a record of 8-8, while my beloved Rays had to watch other teams have fun after going 7-9 in just our second year of existence with a very young squad. And as you probably also know, the Austin Copperheads made it to the Ultimus bowl this season, proving that anything is possible in the playoffs and that nobody cares about the regular season, once the madness of the post-season starts.
The teams both one each game in our direct matchup so that‘s a good indicator that they were pretty much on the same level. However the Hahalua win came later in the season and was more convincing, given it was a 40-3 blowout. The Hahalua also showed that they‘re good at playing the big teams, beating the Liberty, Yeti, Copperheads, Otters and Second Line in the regular season. Who knows, with a good run the team could have made it to the Ultimus, too. Sure, you can criticize that in the end we lost the easy games we should have won against the not-so-great teams and that‘s both fair and true. However I still believe that it was a very close race in the ASFC and that we weren't one bit worse than the teams that got into the playoffs.
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