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TASK 12 +5 TPE
It is once again expansion time and as a newcomer to ISFL, this is my first expansion experience in this league. Coming from PBE, I've witnessed on how expansion teams did and what strategies are best for creating and developing a new team. Before I get to the strategy part, I will tell you the impact on the teams will have on the league. The New York Silverbacks and the Berlin Fire Salamanders are the 13th/14th team to join the league leading to a relatively 'odd' number of team with 7 teams per division. I don't see the league switching up the league structure with 14. For example, they can't split into 4 divisions as each division will have an odd amount. Once the league expands to 16 though, is where I can see the league splitting in to 4. In terms of scheduling, from my understanding, the teams play each other twice in the same conference and once for each team in the other conference. Now I believe there will be 14 inter-conference games now and only 2 in the outside. So the teams are in almost different competition with each other a lot more. So in terms of power balance, whichever team that always perform better in inter-conference games will have a higher edge. The playoff structure will remain the same with 8 teams making the playoffs.
Now onto strategy. In my PBE experience, the team that focuses on the long-term goal will always perform better. In the recent expansion, the two new teams had very polar strategy where one went all in on their first season and one traded for picks. In the end, despite the first team making the playoffs, they easily got beaten by top teams and have a very dark future ahead. The second team had a strong core to work with and can contend in a couple seasons. I believe the amount of protection slots that the teams have are suffice enough to keep their main core together. So the expansion draft will not be enough for the expansion team to instantly contend. My strategy if I was one would be to use those drafted players as an asset in trades. You can trade them for picks which are more long-term focuses as you can draft well and potentially have a great core in a couple seasons. The regular draft is where expansion teams should focus as well as creating a great locker room atmosphere to help retain your rookies/prospect. So thus, I believe a long-term focus is the only way an expansion team can compete but it requires a GM to think ahead and not be demotivated by losing in the early seasons.
TASK 12 +5 TPE
It is once again expansion time and as a newcomer to ISFL, this is my first expansion experience in this league. Coming from PBE, I've witnessed on how expansion teams did and what strategies are best for creating and developing a new team. Before I get to the strategy part, I will tell you the impact on the teams will have on the league. The New York Silverbacks and the Berlin Fire Salamanders are the 13th/14th team to join the league leading to a relatively 'odd' number of team with 7 teams per division. I don't see the league switching up the league structure with 14. For example, they can't split into 4 divisions as each division will have an odd amount. Once the league expands to 16 though, is where I can see the league splitting in to 4. In terms of scheduling, from my understanding, the teams play each other twice in the same conference and once for each team in the other conference. Now I believe there will be 14 inter-conference games now and only 2 in the outside. So the teams are in almost different competition with each other a lot more. So in terms of power balance, whichever team that always perform better in inter-conference games will have a higher edge. The playoff structure will remain the same with 8 teams making the playoffs.
Now onto strategy. In my PBE experience, the team that focuses on the long-term goal will always perform better. In the recent expansion, the two new teams had very polar strategy where one went all in on their first season and one traded for picks. In the end, despite the first team making the playoffs, they easily got beaten by top teams and have a very dark future ahead. The second team had a strong core to work with and can contend in a couple seasons. I believe the amount of protection slots that the teams have are suffice enough to keep their main core together. So the expansion draft will not be enough for the expansion team to instantly contend. My strategy if I was one would be to use those drafted players as an asset in trades. You can trade them for picks which are more long-term focuses as you can draft well and potentially have a great core in a couple seasons. The regular draft is where expansion teams should focus as well as creating a great locker room atmosphere to help retain your rookies/prospect. So thus, I believe a long-term focus is the only way an expansion team can compete but it requires a GM to think ahead and not be demotivated by losing in the early seasons.
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