11-20-2020, 02:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2020, 02:15 AM by White Cornerback.)
1) The league has a rich and fascinating history, and our perspectives on it differ from person to person. In 800 words or more, describe any significant non-playoffs moment in ISFL or DSFL history, whether you were around for it or not. Describe the context, the significant members, and the events. What exactly made this event so famous (or infamous) and why does it deserve to be remembered?
Aight so way back when, the creator of the league Ballerstorm had been in contact with Shaka, a member he had known from past sim leagues. Some way or another, Ballerstorm was told that Shaka was making a SBA styled football league. Ballerstorm came up with the idea to make a football league based off the SHL moneyleague style with the vast majority of the mmebers coming from the SHL, like a sister league. He knew roughly the timeframe for the EFL to launch and decided to launch his relatively early into the process of its creation, beating the EFL to the punch.
The league opened in May and the draft occured just before the end of may. Then everything else pretty much happened from June after , right to this very point today. But what people dont know is that the EFL started off in alot stronger position than the NSFL now ISFL did. The NSFL's conception was very rushed so alot of stuff was thrown together, with really only the sim stuff being tested and even "tested" was a stretch to say.
I remember watching the S1 EFL Draft. It was absolutely fantastic and I'd say it's even just as good if not better then even our S25/S26 Draft. Thats how incredible well edited it was. Using real life NFL Draft styled graphics with actual college tape of players render/comparisons from those specific colleges. They edited beforehand of course so it wasn't streamed live, it was premiered but it didn't matter. It was incredible whereas we did ours live using like notepad or some shit, and the actual draft thread which was so 2004 in 2017. We even had play by plays there.
It's interesting to actually see where we split from there. The NSFL went from Play by plays and poorly done forum drafts in 2017 to incredible pre drafts with insane levels of graphics along with streaming our games online. The EFL went from play by play threads and an incredible pre recorded draft with incredible editing to... play by play threads and forum drafts. It's mind boggling how the EFL went backwards in so many different aspects but went ahead in others. They have their online portal which holds all their data and automates so many aspects of the league but they get like 9 people in an entire draft class, it's been dying for awhile but it's interesting how its turned out.
For so long the EFL spent their time backhanding the ISFL/NSFL at the time about every little thing they did wrong or even right if it suited the EFL agenda. They started very early on from all the shite Shaka spoke about human DL being overpowered, along with OL being unplayable the could break the league, and yet every single sim tweak the EFL has made as been discovered by a NSFL team, user or player and they've done it after. Its funny how that ones worked out.
Even looking at the likes of our recruiting, weve' had several examples of the EFL sending members in to brigade our recruitment threads and I mean for good reason, holy fuck are they starved of members. The irony in that they're the ones who shafted themselves in recruiting by constantly missing the windows and even as we run into 2021 we have more people in a single round of our draft than the EFL gets in an entire draft. Believe me the irony in all of this is not lost on me.
The league that began so rushed, everything really haphazardly thrown together will outlive the league that actually planned well, set up everything, bought its own branding, sorted out the "sim" hosting whatever! The did it all, complete with the big brother little brother dynamic and the self engineering of this weird petty feud with us, which ironically left the ISFL with a huge chip on its shoulder and I to this day believe thats actually what made us improve so much and fly past them in nearly every single aspect. I mean we're likely going to fly by them in our sim transition switch too despite them being testing it for nearly a real life year now. I remember all the backhanded compliments and bitch boys that existed like Kendrick who actually ended up defecting here longterm after he got banned on the EFL lmfao.
I just found it funny that the league thats held up entirely by the SBA's assistance hasnt had the cop on to drop itself and either ask for a merge or just fuck off for good. It's the AAF of the international sim league world and it's just interesting how we went from the 1 yard line to the endzone on a 99 yard drive while the EFL went from the 1 yard line to the 50 yard line and then took a safety scrambling backwards trying to avoid every single thing the NSFL did that they perceived as "Wrong" before running out the back of their own endzone Dan Orlovsky style.
Aight so way back when, the creator of the league Ballerstorm had been in contact with Shaka, a member he had known from past sim leagues. Some way or another, Ballerstorm was told that Shaka was making a SBA styled football league. Ballerstorm came up with the idea to make a football league based off the SHL moneyleague style with the vast majority of the mmebers coming from the SHL, like a sister league. He knew roughly the timeframe for the EFL to launch and decided to launch his relatively early into the process of its creation, beating the EFL to the punch.
The league opened in May and the draft occured just before the end of may. Then everything else pretty much happened from June after , right to this very point today. But what people dont know is that the EFL started off in alot stronger position than the NSFL now ISFL did. The NSFL's conception was very rushed so alot of stuff was thrown together, with really only the sim stuff being tested and even "tested" was a stretch to say.
I remember watching the S1 EFL Draft. It was absolutely fantastic and I'd say it's even just as good if not better then even our S25/S26 Draft. Thats how incredible well edited it was. Using real life NFL Draft styled graphics with actual college tape of players render/comparisons from those specific colleges. They edited beforehand of course so it wasn't streamed live, it was premiered but it didn't matter. It was incredible whereas we did ours live using like notepad or some shit, and the actual draft thread which was so 2004 in 2017. We even had play by plays there.
It's interesting to actually see where we split from there. The NSFL went from Play by plays and poorly done forum drafts in 2017 to incredible pre drafts with insane levels of graphics along with streaming our games online. The EFL went from play by play threads and an incredible pre recorded draft with incredible editing to... play by play threads and forum drafts. It's mind boggling how the EFL went backwards in so many different aspects but went ahead in others. They have their online portal which holds all their data and automates so many aspects of the league but they get like 9 people in an entire draft class, it's been dying for awhile but it's interesting how its turned out.
For so long the EFL spent their time backhanding the ISFL/NSFL at the time about every little thing they did wrong or even right if it suited the EFL agenda. They started very early on from all the shite Shaka spoke about human DL being overpowered, along with OL being unplayable the could break the league, and yet every single sim tweak the EFL has made as been discovered by a NSFL team, user or player and they've done it after. Its funny how that ones worked out.
Even looking at the likes of our recruiting, weve' had several examples of the EFL sending members in to brigade our recruitment threads and I mean for good reason, holy fuck are they starved of members. The irony in that they're the ones who shafted themselves in recruiting by constantly missing the windows and even as we run into 2021 we have more people in a single round of our draft than the EFL gets in an entire draft. Believe me the irony in all of this is not lost on me.
The league that began so rushed, everything really haphazardly thrown together will outlive the league that actually planned well, set up everything, bought its own branding, sorted out the "sim" hosting whatever! The did it all, complete with the big brother little brother dynamic and the self engineering of this weird petty feud with us, which ironically left the ISFL with a huge chip on its shoulder and I to this day believe thats actually what made us improve so much and fly past them in nearly every single aspect. I mean we're likely going to fly by them in our sim transition switch too despite them being testing it for nearly a real life year now. I remember all the backhanded compliments and bitch boys that existed like Kendrick who actually ended up defecting here longterm after he got banned on the EFL lmfao.
I just found it funny that the league thats held up entirely by the SBA's assistance hasnt had the cop on to drop itself and either ask for a merge or just fuck off for good. It's the AAF of the international sim league world and it's just interesting how we went from the 1 yard line to the endzone on a 99 yard drive while the EFL went from the 1 yard line to the 50 yard line and then took a safety scrambling backwards trying to avoid every single thing the NSFL did that they perceived as "Wrong" before running out the back of their own endzone Dan Orlovsky style.
