Tier 2 Task 12
I joined the league about a week or two again when I first heard of it on the r/nfl subreddit page. For years, I have been playing Madden franchise mode and online football sim games and while they had their moments, they always lacked something. When I saw the post, I thought it would just be a small group of people who just had a small sim league just for fun. Boy was I wrong. What I found when I first entered was a huge friendly and helpful community of people who are passionate about this league and football in general. As soon as I joined, I was greeted by a plethora of people and instantly felt welcome. I struggled through the beginning process of creating a rookie and learning how to set my pages up and things like that, but the one thing I have consistently noticed about this league, is how much everyone is willing to help each other even if obvious and silly questions are asked. Its hard to pick only a few, since everyone I have had the pleasure to speak to has been insanely friendly and helpful, but people like JOEB, Thor, Amidships, BigRed1580, and CalvinGolladay. Now there are more people than this that I think are very helpful, and I am probably forgetting a lot more, but these people went way above the call of duty to make me feel welcome and become a part of the league.
Obviously, I would like my player to progress as quickly as possible and become amazing, but I have to slow my roll a bit. I do feel like I came into the league a little later than I wish I did, since I have been struggling to do point tasks since there hasn’t been many because it is playoff and offseason time. I am doing the ultimus one now but coming into the league that was the only point task available and as a new rookie that was a little overwhelming.
I have not been drafted yet, but I have been in talks with scouts and gm’s, and wow. Like I said earlier, everyone I talked to had been extremely friendly, helpful, and just made me feel wanted and welcome. I am in most of the DSFL locker rooms, and it makes me sad that I can’t be drafted by all of them! There is a bunch of great people and smaller communities within the league, and I think so far this has been the best part of my time within the league.
In conclusion, this community is one of the best I have ever been a part of. It is filled with people who just love football and are glad to have more people joining in. It is almost like being apart of a giant family. It is very overwhelming coming in as a rookie and trying to learn everything, but the community is so helpful that it doesn’t make the process that difficult. If I had to make one suggestion, it would to be to have a beginners guide that goes from creating a player, all the way to creating an update page, collecting the free beginner TPE, creating media, and things like this. There are some guides to all these things, but they are not all in one place. I look forward to being drafted by a team and working to improve my player and learning more about the league. Most importantly though, I am really excited to be apart of a great community and have a good time!
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Tier 2 Task 7
I am brand new to the league, so I do not know much about it quite yet. I do not know all the teams yet, or all of the best players in the league. Being an OL player though, I went and looked at the OL stats for the season just to see who was the “best” this year. I was met with two options, Lazlo Fourty-Two and Bruce Buckly. There were three players who achieved over 80 pancakes, but what stood out with these two players to me was the amount of sacks they gave up. Lazlo technically is at the top of the list with 87 pancakes and 1 sack allowed which is an amazing all pro type season. Looking at the last couple of years it seems like Lazlo is one of the best and is just continuing his dominance. But at the 2nd option, we have Bruce Buckly. Now Bruce was serving up the flapjacks last season as well, serving them up a whopping 84 times. Now while this was 3 less than the beast that is Lazlo, there is a very important stat in my opinion that I see that I believe actually makes Buckly the best OL player this season, and that is he gave up 0 sack. Zero, none. This man was acting like he was working in an IHOP all season serving up pancakes, but when it came to protecting the quarterback, he shut everything and everyone down that came his way. Now I do not know much about the sim and if stats matter that much or not, but from a beginners perspective, while Lazlo seems like the better overall player and has been in the league longer, Bruce Buckly to me was bar none the best OL in the league last year. I think he should win the best OL award.
Now I know I am writing this a little late, as I have actually been speaking with Bruce Buckly AKA Nicholas_The_Great and he let me know that he actually did win the best OL award this year. He told me he won it because Lazlo was considered inactive. So even though Bruce Buckly did win the award and I did know that he did, I wanted to write about how I believed that regardless if Lazlo wasn’t inactive and he was eligible to win, I believe the Bruce Buckly this year had the best season of any OL player in the league and deserved to win the award moreso than Lazlo. Who knows, maybe if Lazlo was eligible he would have won since he seems to be more well known and has been around and dominated for slightly longer than Buckly. But this is why I believe Bruce Buckly deserved to get the reward. He had one of the best seasons for an OL player ever as far as I can tell. 84 pancakes and 0 sacks allowed is an insane season and should be considered one of the best seasons ever.
Word Count: 503
I joined the league about a week or two again when I first heard of it on the r/nfl subreddit page. For years, I have been playing Madden franchise mode and online football sim games and while they had their moments, they always lacked something. When I saw the post, I thought it would just be a small group of people who just had a small sim league just for fun. Boy was I wrong. What I found when I first entered was a huge friendly and helpful community of people who are passionate about this league and football in general. As soon as I joined, I was greeted by a plethora of people and instantly felt welcome. I struggled through the beginning process of creating a rookie and learning how to set my pages up and things like that, but the one thing I have consistently noticed about this league, is how much everyone is willing to help each other even if obvious and silly questions are asked. Its hard to pick only a few, since everyone I have had the pleasure to speak to has been insanely friendly and helpful, but people like JOEB, Thor, Amidships, BigRed1580, and CalvinGolladay. Now there are more people than this that I think are very helpful, and I am probably forgetting a lot more, but these people went way above the call of duty to make me feel welcome and become a part of the league.
Obviously, I would like my player to progress as quickly as possible and become amazing, but I have to slow my roll a bit. I do feel like I came into the league a little later than I wish I did, since I have been struggling to do point tasks since there hasn’t been many because it is playoff and offseason time. I am doing the ultimus one now but coming into the league that was the only point task available and as a new rookie that was a little overwhelming.
I have not been drafted yet, but I have been in talks with scouts and gm’s, and wow. Like I said earlier, everyone I talked to had been extremely friendly, helpful, and just made me feel wanted and welcome. I am in most of the DSFL locker rooms, and it makes me sad that I can’t be drafted by all of them! There is a bunch of great people and smaller communities within the league, and I think so far this has been the best part of my time within the league.
In conclusion, this community is one of the best I have ever been a part of. It is filled with people who just love football and are glad to have more people joining in. It is almost like being apart of a giant family. It is very overwhelming coming in as a rookie and trying to learn everything, but the community is so helpful that it doesn’t make the process that difficult. If I had to make one suggestion, it would to be to have a beginners guide that goes from creating a player, all the way to creating an update page, collecting the free beginner TPE, creating media, and things like this. There are some guides to all these things, but they are not all in one place. I look forward to being drafted by a team and working to improve my player and learning more about the league. Most importantly though, I am really excited to be apart of a great community and have a good time!
Word Count: 596
Tier 2 Task 7
I am brand new to the league, so I do not know much about it quite yet. I do not know all the teams yet, or all of the best players in the league. Being an OL player though, I went and looked at the OL stats for the season just to see who was the “best” this year. I was met with two options, Lazlo Fourty-Two and Bruce Buckly. There were three players who achieved over 80 pancakes, but what stood out with these two players to me was the amount of sacks they gave up. Lazlo technically is at the top of the list with 87 pancakes and 1 sack allowed which is an amazing all pro type season. Looking at the last couple of years it seems like Lazlo is one of the best and is just continuing his dominance. But at the 2nd option, we have Bruce Buckly. Now Bruce was serving up the flapjacks last season as well, serving them up a whopping 84 times. Now while this was 3 less than the beast that is Lazlo, there is a very important stat in my opinion that I see that I believe actually makes Buckly the best OL player this season, and that is he gave up 0 sack. Zero, none. This man was acting like he was working in an IHOP all season serving up pancakes, but when it came to protecting the quarterback, he shut everything and everyone down that came his way. Now I do not know much about the sim and if stats matter that much or not, but from a beginners perspective, while Lazlo seems like the better overall player and has been in the league longer, Bruce Buckly to me was bar none the best OL in the league last year. I think he should win the best OL award.
Now I know I am writing this a little late, as I have actually been speaking with Bruce Buckly AKA Nicholas_The_Great and he let me know that he actually did win the best OL award this year. He told me he won it because Lazlo was considered inactive. So even though Bruce Buckly did win the award and I did know that he did, I wanted to write about how I believed that regardless if Lazlo wasn’t inactive and he was eligible to win, I believe the Bruce Buckly this year had the best season of any OL player in the league and deserved to win the award moreso than Lazlo. Who knows, maybe if Lazlo was eligible he would have won since he seems to be more well known and has been around and dominated for slightly longer than Buckly. But this is why I believe Bruce Buckly deserved to get the reward. He had one of the best seasons for an OL player ever as far as I can tell. 84 pancakes and 0 sacks allowed is an insane season and should be considered one of the best seasons ever.
Word Count: 503
