11) Give a thorough examination of a league scandal from any point in time. What made this particular drama so noteworthy? Who were the major participants involved, and what was the offense? What kind of impact did this scandal create on the league, and have any permanent changes come about as a result? (400 words 5 TPE)
There have been quite a few really good scandals over my time here. First we had the Noble scandal where he was giving himself TPE without doing the PTs and editing the claim. Then we had the Carmel Gibson scandal which honestly was probably a Noble multi. Then we had the big Er scandal and that was probably the craziest one we've ever had. But I want to talk about a different one than the usual old scandals and we're going to talk about the mass retirement of the Las Vegas Legion.
Las Vegas was an expansion team in season 2 that decided to go all-in on being competitive from day 1. They spent a lot of draft picks looking to secure iinactive players from other teams, likely under the plan that they would be able to get those players to come back to the league and help win. But that plan didn't work out very well. Eventually the GM for the team disappeared and we had to go out and find a new one. When the new GM came in the players and the GM were all pretty upset with how bad their team was and how bad the plan was from the beginning. They needed a lot of talent and it wasn't easy to find without any draft picks.
So what happened was this GM decided to try and petition HO to give them compensatory picks for free since the team was so bad. Yeah they didn't do that, no surprise there. But what happened next was a huge surprise when "Legion Retires Many" was announced. The team retired a solid 9 players at once. This was their way of trying to stage a protest or a revolt or that sort of thing over being a shitty team and not being given extra resources to fix it. HO still didn't give them anything to fix it, but said if anyone did want to come back and play they would waive the retirement TPE penalty.
So a new GM was appointed for this now shell of a team. At this point there was a quarterback scandal when the new GM decided he was going to move someone to QB but that offended the current QB about the situation. Then some players were going to leave over it. I might be getting this one mixed up but it definitely happened. This GM then stepped down as well. So the team had an alienated QB, a GM for 24 hours, and was missing a ton of players. Enter Bovo.
Bovo stepped in and became GM and built a crazy culture. He worked with the players there and did everything they could to build a strong LR culture and attract free agents. He rebranded to the New Orleans Second Line. They made some shrewd trades and within a few seasons they became a powerhouse team. They won 2 Ultimus trophies in 3 years and had one of the best regular season teams of all time. They didn't need special treatment to do it, they did it on culture and hype. And it worked.
25) 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? (200 words 2.5 TPE)
A huge rule change that really changed the entire trajectory of the league was when OL bots were first introduced after season 3. There were far too few active OL players and a ton of teams were starting inactive 50 TPE dudes on their OL. Plenty of teams tried as hard as they could to draft top OL talent but people didn't really enjoy the position or league and often that top draft pick disappeared. It was getting to the point were DLs were so strong and OLs were so weak that 9 sacks in a game wasn't that abnormal. It was getting really rough for teams. Runningbacks were struggling to get more than 3 yards a carry. So we decided that to fix both the problem with not enough active players as well as the problem with OLs being too weak that we could implement a system of offensive line bots so that teams can use their cap space to buy bots and at the same time allow current OL players to move positions. What resulted was a lot of teams moving a crapload of TPE into positions like defense or quarterback (think Blocksdale or Akselsen). The result of the OL shift was what made teams like the S4-S6 Otters or the Hawks of the similar time period who while they didn't win as many trophies were just as powerful a team.
PBE Affiliation: http://probaseballexperience.jcink.net/i...ntry219968 (2.5 TPE)
There have been quite a few really good scandals over my time here. First we had the Noble scandal where he was giving himself TPE without doing the PTs and editing the claim. Then we had the Carmel Gibson scandal which honestly was probably a Noble multi. Then we had the big Er scandal and that was probably the craziest one we've ever had. But I want to talk about a different one than the usual old scandals and we're going to talk about the mass retirement of the Las Vegas Legion.
Las Vegas was an expansion team in season 2 that decided to go all-in on being competitive from day 1. They spent a lot of draft picks looking to secure iinactive players from other teams, likely under the plan that they would be able to get those players to come back to the league and help win. But that plan didn't work out very well. Eventually the GM for the team disappeared and we had to go out and find a new one. When the new GM came in the players and the GM were all pretty upset with how bad their team was and how bad the plan was from the beginning. They needed a lot of talent and it wasn't easy to find without any draft picks.
So what happened was this GM decided to try and petition HO to give them compensatory picks for free since the team was so bad. Yeah they didn't do that, no surprise there. But what happened next was a huge surprise when "Legion Retires Many" was announced. The team retired a solid 9 players at once. This was their way of trying to stage a protest or a revolt or that sort of thing over being a shitty team and not being given extra resources to fix it. HO still didn't give them anything to fix it, but said if anyone did want to come back and play they would waive the retirement TPE penalty.
So a new GM was appointed for this now shell of a team. At this point there was a quarterback scandal when the new GM decided he was going to move someone to QB but that offended the current QB about the situation. Then some players were going to leave over it. I might be getting this one mixed up but it definitely happened. This GM then stepped down as well. So the team had an alienated QB, a GM for 24 hours, and was missing a ton of players. Enter Bovo.
Bovo stepped in and became GM and built a crazy culture. He worked with the players there and did everything they could to build a strong LR culture and attract free agents. He rebranded to the New Orleans Second Line. They made some shrewd trades and within a few seasons they became a powerhouse team. They won 2 Ultimus trophies in 3 years and had one of the best regular season teams of all time. They didn't need special treatment to do it, they did it on culture and hype. And it worked.
25) 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? (200 words 2.5 TPE)
A huge rule change that really changed the entire trajectory of the league was when OL bots were first introduced after season 3. There were far too few active OL players and a ton of teams were starting inactive 50 TPE dudes on their OL. Plenty of teams tried as hard as they could to draft top OL talent but people didn't really enjoy the position or league and often that top draft pick disappeared. It was getting to the point were DLs were so strong and OLs were so weak that 9 sacks in a game wasn't that abnormal. It was getting really rough for teams. Runningbacks were struggling to get more than 3 yards a carry. So we decided that to fix both the problem with not enough active players as well as the problem with OLs being too weak that we could implement a system of offensive line bots so that teams can use their cap space to buy bots and at the same time allow current OL players to move positions. What resulted was a lot of teams moving a crapload of TPE into positions like defense or quarterback (think Blocksdale or Akselsen). The result of the OL shift was what made teams like the S4-S6 Otters or the Hawks of the similar time period who while they didn't win as many trophies were just as powerful a team.
PBE Affiliation: http://probaseballexperience.jcink.net/i...ntry219968 (2.5 TPE)
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Hank Winchester (S25 - Current) - Scrub
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