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One niche that I think never gets talked about is recruitment. And it is something I would like to talk about to give some users insight of the inner workings in hope it will spark someone’s interest in the recruitment team. I have personal experience in this as I was the head of recruitment for a few seasons and now handed off to a good user Tylus, could speak about this. The way the league typically handles recruitment can become somewhat stale. For several seasons now, it has mostly been through Reddit recruitment. And it has been like that since the league was born. Now, the heads before myself have done a great job of laying the foundation of the recruitment team, I know that Tylus will take the helm and improve on it. But here is a little information on how everything functions.
First, the recruitment through Reddit. The primary focus of recruitment efforts and where a lot of time the team would spend time on. There are a few issues of recruiting through this medium. First, I cannot count the times I have been told to bug off and stop message mods. Sometimes, our team would plan around ten to thirty subs alone to try to get approved on a hand full of ones. A great example of this is the NFL team subs. A lot of them do not allow any posts of any kind. So just asking the mods could get you banned from the sub itself. In the team, a few people got their personal Reddit accounts banned for this. In addition, any ISFL account we create gets banned as well. Secondly, the hypocrisy of mods, where they will allow certain spam content but if we were to ask something along the same lines they would block or ban us from the sub. I have personally been banned from a few this way. Lastly, the mods can just straight up be unpredictable. The best example of this is just last season. I got approval for r/gaming, a 28 million subscriber sub, and come recruitment day, all the sudden the mods have a change of heart. This happened a few times as well with NFL subs. It becomes frustrating when some mods do not keep their word and change their minds at the last second. Ultimately, Reddit is a frustrating platform to try to recruit from. But there are a few positives with it.
Reddit as a whole has a ton of people using it. 11 million people log into the website a day. It can be a great tool when it comes to bringing in new recruits and users. One of the best parts of recruiting from Reddit, is the r/NFL class. The sub itself is huge too! Especially around the NFL season it can bring in 2 million users.Thanks to slm, he forged a great working relationship with the mods. It is because of him we can recruit from the sub. The numbers are great when it works, for example season 22 there are over 200 users recruited or even season 18 brought in over 100 people. Once again, thanks to slm, the schedule is usually done every 6 months. So if you have any questions about the next r/NFL class, ask yourself “Was it 6 months ago?”. Another positive of Reddit, is the league has its own sub. It has game thread posts or draft day threads. If we can have people subscribe to the r/simulationfootball - we can grow and we can become less dependent on other subs. This was one of my goals as head of recruitment.
Another great recruitment tool that is being used every year is the affiliated leagues. There are a lot of affiliate leagues from different kinds of sports. These are good places to tap into because the demographic is similar to the ISFL. Every recruitment season, the recruitment team would tap into these leagues. Some of them include: SHL, CFB, PBE and SCFSL. This recruitment helps the league maintain a good amount of users. Specifically usually, 20ish users from all the leagues. If other leagues stack against their sport subs like, r/hockey for SHL, positive feedback could happen and increase the amount of users in our league because of that. It is seen the other way when r/NFL joins the ISFL, the other leagues see a bump. We should always maintain a great relationship with the other leagues. This helps the simulation grow in general and there is a ton of overlap.
Lastly, what does the future hold for recruiting? Unfortunately, Reddit is here to stay for awhile, since it is a popular website and used widely. But, the league could benefit from other avenues. One that I tried getting going is using Youtube or Twitch. Some Madden streamers and creators could benefit from our user base and we could benefit from their reach. It is a matter of getting a working relationship. Second, I know I have thought about doing ads to some websites like Youtube, Facebook and Instagram. But that takes resources the league does not have right now. Hopefully some current users could get some insight on how recruiting works right now, and be inspired to join the team!
One niche that I think never gets talked about is recruitment. And it is something I would like to talk about to give some users insight of the inner workings in hope it will spark someone’s interest in the recruitment team. I have personal experience in this as I was the head of recruitment for a few seasons and now handed off to a good user Tylus, could speak about this. The way the league typically handles recruitment can become somewhat stale. For several seasons now, it has mostly been through Reddit recruitment. And it has been like that since the league was born. Now, the heads before myself have done a great job of laying the foundation of the recruitment team, I know that Tylus will take the helm and improve on it. But here is a little information on how everything functions.
First, the recruitment through Reddit. The primary focus of recruitment efforts and where a lot of time the team would spend time on. There are a few issues of recruiting through this medium. First, I cannot count the times I have been told to bug off and stop message mods. Sometimes, our team would plan around ten to thirty subs alone to try to get approved on a hand full of ones. A great example of this is the NFL team subs. A lot of them do not allow any posts of any kind. So just asking the mods could get you banned from the sub itself. In the team, a few people got their personal Reddit accounts banned for this. In addition, any ISFL account we create gets banned as well. Secondly, the hypocrisy of mods, where they will allow certain spam content but if we were to ask something along the same lines they would block or ban us from the sub. I have personally been banned from a few this way. Lastly, the mods can just straight up be unpredictable. The best example of this is just last season. I got approval for r/gaming, a 28 million subscriber sub, and come recruitment day, all the sudden the mods have a change of heart. This happened a few times as well with NFL subs. It becomes frustrating when some mods do not keep their word and change their minds at the last second. Ultimately, Reddit is a frustrating platform to try to recruit from. But there are a few positives with it.
Reddit as a whole has a ton of people using it. 11 million people log into the website a day. It can be a great tool when it comes to bringing in new recruits and users. One of the best parts of recruiting from Reddit, is the r/NFL class. The sub itself is huge too! Especially around the NFL season it can bring in 2 million users.Thanks to slm, he forged a great working relationship with the mods. It is because of him we can recruit from the sub. The numbers are great when it works, for example season 22 there are over 200 users recruited or even season 18 brought in over 100 people. Once again, thanks to slm, the schedule is usually done every 6 months. So if you have any questions about the next r/NFL class, ask yourself “Was it 6 months ago?”. Another positive of Reddit, is the league has its own sub. It has game thread posts or draft day threads. If we can have people subscribe to the r/simulationfootball - we can grow and we can become less dependent on other subs. This was one of my goals as head of recruitment.
Another great recruitment tool that is being used every year is the affiliated leagues. There are a lot of affiliate leagues from different kinds of sports. These are good places to tap into because the demographic is similar to the ISFL. Every recruitment season, the recruitment team would tap into these leagues. Some of them include: SHL, CFB, PBE and SCFSL. This recruitment helps the league maintain a good amount of users. Specifically usually, 20ish users from all the leagues. If other leagues stack against their sport subs like, r/hockey for SHL, positive feedback could happen and increase the amount of users in our league because of that. It is seen the other way when r/NFL joins the ISFL, the other leagues see a bump. We should always maintain a great relationship with the other leagues. This helps the simulation grow in general and there is a ton of overlap.
Lastly, what does the future hold for recruiting? Unfortunately, Reddit is here to stay for awhile, since it is a popular website and used widely. But, the league could benefit from other avenues. One that I tried getting going is using Youtube or Twitch. Some Madden streamers and creators could benefit from our user base and we could benefit from their reach. It is a matter of getting a working relationship. Second, I know I have thought about doing ads to some websites like Youtube, Facebook and Instagram. But that takes resources the league does not have right now. Hopefully some current users could get some insight on how recruiting works right now, and be inspired to join the team!
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