Hell yeah the league is older than me. Kinda hard to believe I'm hurtling towards having been here for a year but I guess time flies when you're having fun. I still remember the day I checked my email and had a message about getting a forum PM. I had completely forgotten I had joined. That prompted me to hop back on and join the Discords. It took Gucci literally hours to walk me through how to update, what I could claim, etc. The excitement of the first few weeks in the league is a feeling I don't think I can ever replicate again. Everything is so new and so fun and you come in with this fresh slate where you can build an image.
I remember watching the sim the first few weeks of the DSFL season and having no clue how to follow the dots but it was still interesting to see a correlation between doing the tasks and how your team performs on the field. The marginal benefits of the weekly updates don't really impact performance in the sim that often, but while you're in the DSFL it does feel like every point into speed or strength is a huge difference for your team.
It wasn't long before I dove in and was cranking out media. I remember the first piece I did was this "approximate value" study that had some seriously faulty methodology because I had tried to adapt a formula meant for the NFL where you can have more granular data that tells stories better. It was still super fascinating to do. I meant to do it for both offensive and defensive players but could only do the offensive side of the ball - the defensive study required data I could find or measure. Thats when I started learning about the limitations of the sim and got interested in how everything worked on the back end.
That interest led me to do my OL studies. This was during the height of the "quarantine" period in March and April so I had no thing but free time. I would stay up until 3 am running sims on this archaic laptop thats still running Windows XP I'm fairly certain. It was a ton of effort because at that time I also didn't realize you could change the click speed in the autoclicker. The results were amazing and something I'm still proud of. Just crazy to think that was 9 months ago.
I remember watching the sim the first few weeks of the DSFL season and having no clue how to follow the dots but it was still interesting to see a correlation between doing the tasks and how your team performs on the field. The marginal benefits of the weekly updates don't really impact performance in the sim that often, but while you're in the DSFL it does feel like every point into speed or strength is a huge difference for your team.
It wasn't long before I dove in and was cranking out media. I remember the first piece I did was this "approximate value" study that had some seriously faulty methodology because I had tried to adapt a formula meant for the NFL where you can have more granular data that tells stories better. It was still super fascinating to do. I meant to do it for both offensive and defensive players but could only do the offensive side of the ball - the defensive study required data I could find or measure. Thats when I started learning about the limitations of the sim and got interested in how everything worked on the back end.
That interest led me to do my OL studies. This was during the height of the "quarantine" period in March and April so I had no thing but free time. I would stay up until 3 am running sims on this archaic laptop thats still running Windows XP I'm fairly certain. It was a ton of effort because at that time I also didn't realize you could change the click speed in the autoclicker. The results were amazing and something I'm still proud of. Just crazy to think that was 9 months ago.
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