Tier 3 Task
20) Pretend injuries are a thing in the ISFL and your team has had a lot of them lately – so many that your GM has asked you to play out of position. What position are they asking you to play and what about your player build will help you succeed in this role?
Similar to last season, Dawkins was expected to line up at both Strong Safety and Free Safety for the upcoming season. With injuries in the Hahalua secondary, it was speculated that Dawkins could very well be moved around the secondary, playing outside corner in some formations. This was not something unexpected considering his familiarity with playing cornerback having also spent time there during his college career with the University of Chicago. Additionally, back in Season 23, his rookie campaign, Dawkins was used both as a free safety and as the teams outside corner along side Jim Waters. His performance that season earned him a spot in the AFSC Pro Bowl, so it was assumed that Dawkins would be the player that would to fill the void.
Discussions were short as Dawkins was eager to get more involved coverage this season as he had a down year having been less effective against the opposition passing game compared to previous season, having missed the Pro Bowl selection for the first time in his career. His combination of speed and strength in addition to his prior experience, were key reasons as to why Dawkins was thought to be the player who could fill in at cornerback. Additionally, his ability to tackle was thought to be useful lining up at left cornerback.
Tier 3 Task
24) Design a ticket stub or promotional poster for a playoff game or the final. Graphics only.
NOLA Wildcard Ticket
![[Image: tKCuOZF.png]](https://i.imgur.com/tKCuOZF.png)
Tier 3 Task
28) The league is moving on to a new sim. What do you think about it? Are you excited to leave the old one behind? Maybe not so excited about it? Which parts of it do you think will be great, or not so great?
I'm kinda torn about moving to the sim and admittedly it is for selfish reasons. When I first created, I was looking to create a player who would hopefully be among the leagues best kick returners. For that reason I went with the centre fielder archetype (although I was tempted to go the man to man cornerback route) as I did want to play safety. Looking at the caps for the centre fielder archetype, agility caps at 95 with speed and endurance capped at 100. With those attributes being particularly important in a players ability to return the football it seemed to be a decent option for return specialist who played on the defensive side of the ball.
With the attributes caps for each archetype changing with the move to DDSPF21 changing, it seems like the meta for returners would be more geared towards receiving backs and slot receivers for their combination of speed, agility and endurance. While the centre fielder archetype while having the same speed as those archetypes (both 95), the centre fielder role has their agility capped at 90, 5 less than the receiving back and slot receiver archetypes. Now I don't know for certain what attributes matter most in the new sim but it would appear that chasing after kick return records could very well be further out of reach then if we were to stay with DDSPF16.
On the other hand, sim testing will probably be less of a thing. It's kinda of positive and negative. Positive because that something that I won't do anymore and so I guess I might have a bit of free time which is nice. Also sometimes knowing test results and then seeing what the sim throws out on stream can be, well, not great. At the same time, it's kinda a negative as attempting to maximise your chances in matchup was an interesting aspect that I guess I may miss. But hey, new sim will likely present some new things which I guess will be interesting to see and learn about.
Tier 3 Task
30) Make a scouting report for any of the ISFL or DSFL draftees. Show their stats, abilities, TPE, highlights, or totally fraudulent mail-in ballots. Whatever rookies get up to these days.
Lawrence Miller Scouting Graphic
![[Image: YUJqERy.png]](https://i.imgur.com/YUJqERy.png)
20) Pretend injuries are a thing in the ISFL and your team has had a lot of them lately – so many that your GM has asked you to play out of position. What position are they asking you to play and what about your player build will help you succeed in this role?
Similar to last season, Dawkins was expected to line up at both Strong Safety and Free Safety for the upcoming season. With injuries in the Hahalua secondary, it was speculated that Dawkins could very well be moved around the secondary, playing outside corner in some formations. This was not something unexpected considering his familiarity with playing cornerback having also spent time there during his college career with the University of Chicago. Additionally, back in Season 23, his rookie campaign, Dawkins was used both as a free safety and as the teams outside corner along side Jim Waters. His performance that season earned him a spot in the AFSC Pro Bowl, so it was assumed that Dawkins would be the player that would to fill the void.
Discussions were short as Dawkins was eager to get more involved coverage this season as he had a down year having been less effective against the opposition passing game compared to previous season, having missed the Pro Bowl selection for the first time in his career. His combination of speed and strength in addition to his prior experience, were key reasons as to why Dawkins was thought to be the player who could fill in at cornerback. Additionally, his ability to tackle was thought to be useful lining up at left cornerback.
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24) Design a ticket stub or promotional poster for a playoff game or the final. Graphics only.
NOLA Wildcard Ticket
Tier 3 Task
28) The league is moving on to a new sim. What do you think about it? Are you excited to leave the old one behind? Maybe not so excited about it? Which parts of it do you think will be great, or not so great?
I'm kinda torn about moving to the sim and admittedly it is for selfish reasons. When I first created, I was looking to create a player who would hopefully be among the leagues best kick returners. For that reason I went with the centre fielder archetype (although I was tempted to go the man to man cornerback route) as I did want to play safety. Looking at the caps for the centre fielder archetype, agility caps at 95 with speed and endurance capped at 100. With those attributes being particularly important in a players ability to return the football it seemed to be a decent option for return specialist who played on the defensive side of the ball.
With the attributes caps for each archetype changing with the move to DDSPF21 changing, it seems like the meta for returners would be more geared towards receiving backs and slot receivers for their combination of speed, agility and endurance. While the centre fielder archetype while having the same speed as those archetypes (both 95), the centre fielder role has their agility capped at 90, 5 less than the receiving back and slot receiver archetypes. Now I don't know for certain what attributes matter most in the new sim but it would appear that chasing after kick return records could very well be further out of reach then if we were to stay with DDSPF16.
On the other hand, sim testing will probably be less of a thing. It's kinda of positive and negative. Positive because that something that I won't do anymore and so I guess I might have a bit of free time which is nice. Also sometimes knowing test results and then seeing what the sim throws out on stream can be, well, not great. At the same time, it's kinda a negative as attempting to maximise your chances in matchup was an interesting aspect that I guess I may miss. But hey, new sim will likely present some new things which I guess will be interesting to see and learn about.
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342 wordsTier 3 Task
30) Make a scouting report for any of the ISFL or DSFL draftees. Show their stats, abilities, TPE, highlights, or totally fraudulent mail-in ballots. Whatever rookies get up to these days.
Lawrence Miller Scouting Graphic
