9) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, the community, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
I have asked myself many times about what keeps me interested in dot football, and I have stumbled upon a few different answers. The first answer, and I think mostly likely the right answer, is that I just enjoy having something to follow along with. Its nice to have something that you can check up on, see how your team did the previous night and see who your team picks in the draft. For me, I think this league fits a niche kind of like social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram probably fill for other people. While a lot of people probably like to see their friends vacation pictures, cute babies or relationship status updates, I prefer to see final scores, football stats, and draft results. When the NFL is not in season or if the Denver Broncos are terrible, its nice to have a replacement league that I can follow.
The second answer I have found is that this game provides a nice reward for only a little bit of work. Being about to do the weekly activity check, game predictions, and weekly training every week is kind of fun when it lets you add stats to your player as a reward. The best time is the end of the season were you get points for your season predictions, Ultimus Task, Playoff Predictions, Draft predictions, and multiple weekly activity checks in a single update, netting a massive amount of TPE. Lately, as I have been getting over 800 TPE I do feel that I do not get as much bang for my buck as each stat increase takes more and more time to get, but the reward is still there. It is difficult to motivate myself to do these writeups because it feels a lot more like work than it does feel enjoyable. However, one like this one were I do not need to do research is a welcome change. I hope more write ups are like this in the future, because I will probably do them.
My third answer is simple: I think I am addicted to football. I do not know why I like football so much; I never played it nor do I really know much about it. However, I have watched it and followed it since I was really young, so I guess it is like a life long addiction. I guess I like the storylines that naturally develop, like this year you had a veteran New Orleans Second Line team having a Ultimus rematch with Yellowknife from a few seasons prior.
10) Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
S26 was a bizarre season with a lot of ups and downs for the Berlin Fire Salamanders. Well, there was one giant down then a whole lot of ups. The season started promising, we went 3-1 in the preseason, beating the Butchers, Sailfish and the Silverbacks, all of which eventually became playoffs teams. Everyone in the team chat was happy, and excited for the potential of the teams to get its first playoff berth.
Then the first game happened where we took a hard loss to the Silverbacks. That's okay, its just a single game where we had some bad luck with turnovers. Then the second game happened and we were blown out by the Sailfish. The game was awful, everything that could go wrong went wrong and we fell to 0-2. Still 14 games left, we can turn this around... and then game 3 happened were we lost by 1 point to the Butchers. All three of our first loses came to teams that we beat in the preseason.
0-3 is hard, but teams have come back from worse, I thought. Then the next two games happened, making that 0-3 become 0-5. At this point, I thought the season was basically over and we were playing for stats and draft picks. Then the Fire Salamanders caught fire, beating the Yeti and the Hawks pretty convincingly. I was actually a little upset at this point, since I figured we were better off locking on the top draft pick then picking up some meaningless midseason wins.
However, the Fire Salamanders kept bringing the heat, and we won 3 of the next 5 to put us at 5-7. While not a great record, we somehow were only a game out of 3rd place in the NSFC and our first playoff appearance. This was likely my favorite point of the season: we just came back from being in a really bad 0-5 hole and now potentially have a chance to get to the playoffs. These last few games were great for my player, Hank Steel, as a got a sack in each game. We then proceeded to drop the next two games by a combined 9 points, which made the playoffs seem impossible. Undeterred by the losses, we finished the season with a 2 game win streak to finish a respectable 7-9, 1 game out of being in a 3 way tie for 3rd. The final game was amazing for Hank, as he got a career high SEVEN tackles with a sack, which is great for a DT!
Next year the Fire Salamanders are going to the playoffs! We finished last year 7-4 over the last 11 games and everyone on the team is still here! ULTIMUS HERE WE COME!
I have asked myself many times about what keeps me interested in dot football, and I have stumbled upon a few different answers. The first answer, and I think mostly likely the right answer, is that I just enjoy having something to follow along with. Its nice to have something that you can check up on, see how your team did the previous night and see who your team picks in the draft. For me, I think this league fits a niche kind of like social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram probably fill for other people. While a lot of people probably like to see their friends vacation pictures, cute babies or relationship status updates, I prefer to see final scores, football stats, and draft results. When the NFL is not in season or if the Denver Broncos are terrible, its nice to have a replacement league that I can follow.
The second answer I have found is that this game provides a nice reward for only a little bit of work. Being about to do the weekly activity check, game predictions, and weekly training every week is kind of fun when it lets you add stats to your player as a reward. The best time is the end of the season were you get points for your season predictions, Ultimus Task, Playoff Predictions, Draft predictions, and multiple weekly activity checks in a single update, netting a massive amount of TPE. Lately, as I have been getting over 800 TPE I do feel that I do not get as much bang for my buck as each stat increase takes more and more time to get, but the reward is still there. It is difficult to motivate myself to do these writeups because it feels a lot more like work than it does feel enjoyable. However, one like this one were I do not need to do research is a welcome change. I hope more write ups are like this in the future, because I will probably do them.
My third answer is simple: I think I am addicted to football. I do not know why I like football so much; I never played it nor do I really know much about it. However, I have watched it and followed it since I was really young, so I guess it is like a life long addiction. I guess I like the storylines that naturally develop, like this year you had a veteran New Orleans Second Line team having a Ultimus rematch with Yellowknife from a few seasons prior.
10) Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
S26 was a bizarre season with a lot of ups and downs for the Berlin Fire Salamanders. Well, there was one giant down then a whole lot of ups. The season started promising, we went 3-1 in the preseason, beating the Butchers, Sailfish and the Silverbacks, all of which eventually became playoffs teams. Everyone in the team chat was happy, and excited for the potential of the teams to get its first playoff berth.
Then the first game happened where we took a hard loss to the Silverbacks. That's okay, its just a single game where we had some bad luck with turnovers. Then the second game happened and we were blown out by the Sailfish. The game was awful, everything that could go wrong went wrong and we fell to 0-2. Still 14 games left, we can turn this around... and then game 3 happened were we lost by 1 point to the Butchers. All three of our first loses came to teams that we beat in the preseason.
0-3 is hard, but teams have come back from worse, I thought. Then the next two games happened, making that 0-3 become 0-5. At this point, I thought the season was basically over and we were playing for stats and draft picks. Then the Fire Salamanders caught fire, beating the Yeti and the Hawks pretty convincingly. I was actually a little upset at this point, since I figured we were better off locking on the top draft pick then picking up some meaningless midseason wins.
However, the Fire Salamanders kept bringing the heat, and we won 3 of the next 5 to put us at 5-7. While not a great record, we somehow were only a game out of 3rd place in the NSFC and our first playoff appearance. This was likely my favorite point of the season: we just came back from being in a really bad 0-5 hole and now potentially have a chance to get to the playoffs. These last few games were great for my player, Hank Steel, as a got a sack in each game. We then proceeded to drop the next two games by a combined 9 points, which made the playoffs seem impossible. Undeterred by the losses, we finished the season with a 2 game win streak to finish a respectable 7-9, 1 game out of being in a 3 way tie for 3rd. The final game was amazing for Hank, as he got a career high SEVEN tackles with a sack, which is great for a DT!
Next year the Fire Salamanders are going to the playoffs! We finished last year 7-4 over the last 11 games and everyone on the team is still here! ULTIMUS HERE WE COME!
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