(S26) Ultimus Week

[Tayjay]

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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?

For a team that stormed out to a large lead in the division last year only to lose in the conference championship, we set our eyes directly towards getting back to the top. It wasn't as pretty as last year but we still had the league best offense and a defense that when it wanted to would put effort in. The defense ranked around the bottom of the league heading into the final couple of weeks. Then the defense picked it up and allowed 20 or less points in 6 of their last 7 games. 4 of those 7 games they allowed 14 or less. Through the last 7 weeks they averaged 14.4 points given up. That is a touchdown better than their first 7 games! They gave up, on average 23 points per game over the first 7 weeks. They gave up 14.4 points over the second half of the season. That would put them up near the top 3 in defense over a full season. That is a remarkable. It's also a reason that Bondi Beach made such an improvement over the latter part of the season. They were able to improve defensively and even pitch a shutout in the playoffs against Norfolk. They then held Portland to just 17 points. All of which that came in the first half, which led to a second half comeback and Ultimini win. It has been a full team effort that starts at the top with our GM's. We weathered the storm early relying on our fantastic offense and then the defense was able to pick it up and contribute.

Leonard Taylor led the team in tackles in back to back years. He contributed more this season in other categories but still was mostly a one category linebacker. Last year Taylor had 108 tackles with 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery, and 1 interception. In the only playoff game in Season 25 Taylor had 16 tackles and no other stats. Solid season but tackles only isn't really where you want to be for the captain of the defense. In Season 26 Taylor had 147 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 3 fumbles forced, 1 fumble recovered, 3 sacks and 1 interception. A massive improvement over Season 25. In the playoffs he had 24 tackles in the 2 games. I should be called up to Yellowknife, the reigning ISFL champions, and position switching over to Defensive End. I have loved linebacker but I always wanted to be more of a pass rusher in a legacy dedicated to Lawrence Taylor. Pass rushing was what I wanted to do in this league and I think that I can step into this defense next year and produce enough that could make us repeat champions.
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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 have never really been a huge fan of the sim. Coming from OOTP I always loved how the sim looked and watched it. So when I first heard of ISFL I thought it might be on a game like Madden, NFL 2k, or one of the newer football IP's. It was not but I have come to love the football sim. The only thing that I haven't liked is the clock management and the lack of sacks for Defensive Ends. When I came into the league I wanted to get sacks very badly, but Defensive Ends apparently only get tackle for loss. In my 2 years I have only seen linebackers and safeties get a lot of sacks. The new sim engine looks better and I really like how you can see the ball in the air. You can follow the game better instead of just teleporting to a receiver and I think the stats will be way more realistic. I'm also pumped for the new archetypes and the traits. I still need to see how it works and how much of an impact it will have but I like the archetypes and glad that they got reworked to be more different. I always thought it was weird that move positions had 85 or 90 speed for almost every position. It seems that speed has been reworked which I think should help a lot. 
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17) You’re in charge of entertainment for the Ultimus or Ultimini half-time show. What would you do?

I think the recent Wild Card game between the Bears and Saints brought back some old, fond memories of my childhood. With Nickelodeon broadcasting the game as well as the normal television rights I think we should bring back the old 90's tv show competitions. For the Ultimini we will bring back Double Dare. The two teams will be fans for their respective teams. After playing a quick couple of games to see who gets to play a final game, the stadium is being transformed into the ultimate Double Dare obstacle course.  There will be classic like the nose picker, and diving into fake pancakes to find the flag. It will be Double Dare like you have never seen it. For the Ultimus halftime show we are bringing back none other than the Guts Agrorock. We will bring in two fans of each playoff team. They will play in a few game until we get to the Agrorock. Not sure if we could bring this in at halftime or if we build the Agrorock outside the stadium and do the other game modes like biking obstacle course inside the stadium. Either way, the tv game show idea brings back some competition to the halftime show and brings in a lot of youth to our viewing fan base. 217 words