Tier 3
14) Create an argument for your own player, or for someone else on your team, as to why they should be nominated for awards. Lay out their stats or compare them to other contenders. Make a convincing case.
Clay Stallworth is a behemoth. He is far and away the front-runner for the offensive lineman of the year award, having twelve more pancakes than the next highest person, and also breaking a twenty year old record by nearly a game’s worth of pancakes. So why write this article? I believe that Clay Stallworth is worthy of more. The Offensive rookie of the year award undoubtedly goes to skill positions. But. If there were ever a year to award this to a lineman, this is the year. In 848 offensive snaps, Stallworth had 71 pancakes. That is a pancake every 11.9 plays. The second highest total number of pancakes had a pancake on an average of 14.5 plays. For other Offensive Rookie Candidates, my simple question I would pose is this: Have they broken any records? How long were those records standing? How much did they break the record by? The answer to these questions is that no other rookie broke any records this season. Stallworth has broken 2. That should be a huge bump to Stallworth’s resumé. Of course, this is a Quarterback dominated league, and the award will likely go to Howitzer, but Stallworth should be receiving votes for this award.
Tier 3
27) Some positions are still under appreciated. Talk about the offensive linemen and/or special teamers on your squad. Show how they have contributed to the team, both on and off the field, and why they deserve recognition.
FELIX ARCHSTONE. CONNOR QUIGLEY. CLAY STALLWORTH. Let us start with the obvious. Felix Archstone is a first round pick. King of anime, purveyor of memes, GM in his rookie year. These are traits that make Archstone the leader of the Kansas City locker room even as a rookie. His activity is simply unmatched. Personal DMs, @everyone pings, there is not a single person who cares about his team and teammates more than Felix Archstone. Next we have Connor Quigley. My favorite bounce back story. After being inactive for 6 weeks, Quigley just pulls up to the locker room and says “I need help.” That takes guts. Since then Quigley has been a max earner and a twitter enthusiast. Whether it's about free vacations or smoking crack on the sidelines, Quigley always has something to say, and the locker room is the better for it. Finally there is Clay Stallworth. While Stallworth may not be super active on the discord, he is always posting stupid ideas on the forum, begging for the wrath of popular opinion to pull him under the dark waves of the forum. His on field production is good too, setting a new record for both pancakes in a game and a season. He has also been given the occasional nod for offensive rookie of the year, but that is unlikely to happen. He will likely have to settle for Offensive Linemen of the Year instead.
Tier 2
13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?
I have had so much fun in this league. It is my first sim league and I had no idea the community was this cool. To be honest, Melvin Murder-Moose was a great help when I was first getting started, but my fellow rookies and Coyotes were the ones who have kept me coming back. Felix Archstone and I have had a friendly offensive lineman rivalry. Southpaw was the one who initially recruited me to Kansas City and he was another guy who kept me engaged at the beginning when I was struggling to keep up. Unfortunately he was traded and we fell out of touch since then. The prospect bowl was a ton of fun, but it caused me to fall in the draft. I’m not complaining though, as being a steal in the draft allowed me to play with the best offensive line in the DSFL. I won’t lie though, I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder being drafted that late. I am incredibly competitive in real life, for better or for worse, and that manifested in my obsession with earning. I have missed 3 total TPE since I have started actually engaging with the forum. As for my player’s start, I believe that I truly have a shot at being an all time great at the offensive line position. Breaking a twenty year record and another record along the way make me really happy that the sim likes me so much. Comments and suggestions for the league are numerous, but some of my suggestions have been received incredibly negatively, so I won’t restate those, but here are my other thoughts, observations, and suggestions. Number one: reddit draft classes. Oh boy. As someone who came from r/NFL himself, I shouldn’t shit on them like I am about to, but I digress. Reddit is a place filled with smart, caring, active, and kind people. There are quite a few rookies in my class alone that are examples of this. On the other hand, it seems like every reddit draft class has a horror story about one person saying being the worst. Is this reason to stay away from reddit forever? I don’t think so. I do think that recruiting from reddit should be done more sparingly however. My class alone produced a ton of inactives that screwed over teams. I don’t think every other draft should come from a reddit post in r/NFL. Maybe one every ten or so seasons. I am not a member of HO and have no idea how big they want this league to be, but retention is more important than raw numbers.
14) Create an argument for your own player, or for someone else on your team, as to why they should be nominated for awards. Lay out their stats or compare them to other contenders. Make a convincing case.
Clay Stallworth is a behemoth. He is far and away the front-runner for the offensive lineman of the year award, having twelve more pancakes than the next highest person, and also breaking a twenty year old record by nearly a game’s worth of pancakes. So why write this article? I believe that Clay Stallworth is worthy of more. The Offensive rookie of the year award undoubtedly goes to skill positions. But. If there were ever a year to award this to a lineman, this is the year. In 848 offensive snaps, Stallworth had 71 pancakes. That is a pancake every 11.9 plays. The second highest total number of pancakes had a pancake on an average of 14.5 plays. For other Offensive Rookie Candidates, my simple question I would pose is this: Have they broken any records? How long were those records standing? How much did they break the record by? The answer to these questions is that no other rookie broke any records this season. Stallworth has broken 2. That should be a huge bump to Stallworth’s resumé. Of course, this is a Quarterback dominated league, and the award will likely go to Howitzer, but Stallworth should be receiving votes for this award.
Tier 3
27) Some positions are still under appreciated. Talk about the offensive linemen and/or special teamers on your squad. Show how they have contributed to the team, both on and off the field, and why they deserve recognition.
FELIX ARCHSTONE. CONNOR QUIGLEY. CLAY STALLWORTH. Let us start with the obvious. Felix Archstone is a first round pick. King of anime, purveyor of memes, GM in his rookie year. These are traits that make Archstone the leader of the Kansas City locker room even as a rookie. His activity is simply unmatched. Personal DMs, @everyone pings, there is not a single person who cares about his team and teammates more than Felix Archstone. Next we have Connor Quigley. My favorite bounce back story. After being inactive for 6 weeks, Quigley just pulls up to the locker room and says “I need help.” That takes guts. Since then Quigley has been a max earner and a twitter enthusiast. Whether it's about free vacations or smoking crack on the sidelines, Quigley always has something to say, and the locker room is the better for it. Finally there is Clay Stallworth. While Stallworth may not be super active on the discord, he is always posting stupid ideas on the forum, begging for the wrath of popular opinion to pull him under the dark waves of the forum. His on field production is good too, setting a new record for both pancakes in a game and a season. He has also been given the occasional nod for offensive rookie of the year, but that is unlikely to happen. He will likely have to settle for Offensive Linemen of the Year instead.
Tier 2
13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?
I have had so much fun in this league. It is my first sim league and I had no idea the community was this cool. To be honest, Melvin Murder-Moose was a great help when I was first getting started, but my fellow rookies and Coyotes were the ones who have kept me coming back. Felix Archstone and I have had a friendly offensive lineman rivalry. Southpaw was the one who initially recruited me to Kansas City and he was another guy who kept me engaged at the beginning when I was struggling to keep up. Unfortunately he was traded and we fell out of touch since then. The prospect bowl was a ton of fun, but it caused me to fall in the draft. I’m not complaining though, as being a steal in the draft allowed me to play with the best offensive line in the DSFL. I won’t lie though, I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder being drafted that late. I am incredibly competitive in real life, for better or for worse, and that manifested in my obsession with earning. I have missed 3 total TPE since I have started actually engaging with the forum. As for my player’s start, I believe that I truly have a shot at being an all time great at the offensive line position. Breaking a twenty year record and another record along the way make me really happy that the sim likes me so much. Comments and suggestions for the league are numerous, but some of my suggestions have been received incredibly negatively, so I won’t restate those, but here are my other thoughts, observations, and suggestions. Number one: reddit draft classes. Oh boy. As someone who came from r/NFL himself, I shouldn’t shit on them like I am about to, but I digress. Reddit is a place filled with smart, caring, active, and kind people. There are quite a few rookies in my class alone that are examples of this. On the other hand, it seems like every reddit draft class has a horror story about one person saying being the worst. Is this reason to stay away from reddit forever? I don’t think so. I do think that recruiting from reddit should be done more sparingly however. My class alone produced a ton of inactives that screwed over teams. I don’t think every other draft should come from a reddit post in r/NFL. Maybe one every ten or so seasons. I am not a member of HO and have no idea how big they want this league to be, but retention is more important than raw numbers.
Always run the ball if you got the ‘Stall
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