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?
The community and the overall idea of the league really helps me to stay interested in the league. First, the community is one of the most overall nice people I’ve met in a huge group. I have yet to meet a bad apple, or don’t think I’ll even meet one. You could ask anyone for help and they will do their best to answer your question. From a vet who answers the question with their experience, to a rookie who will help you find the person who will answer properly. The love of the game is also a huge part of why it keeps me interested. When I moved to the United States, I made a ton of friends in a school with a language that’s completely foreign to me, with a sport that was completely foreign to me. Not much other activities on this planet can unite people with such passion about a game where being a tough person is the key. I don’t have a job in the league yet, but I look forward to one because the experience I had even without being in a team is already amazing, and the best is yet to even come. I don’t think there’s much improvement for the league, minor things really. Training mini-games that help a player earn points for themselves would be my only suggestion so far. With a new simulator being used this upcoming season, I look forward to seeing how that would affect the league and rosters, with some archetypes becoming better than others and some archetypes losing their viability. The whole idea of archetypes is really creative, it allows individuality for every player. Another idea that allows individuality is the twitter and media parts which allow the league to deepen the experience and intractability. I look forward to writing media and maybe creating a twitter for my player in the future. Being a prospect, I’ve been really lucky to have an opportunity to speak to General Managers who are planning on their DSFL, and it’s been nice to talk to all of them and see how they want to run their teams and what their future plans are. It’s been a great part to talk to the prospects I got to talk to and hope to compete with them in the future, and hopefully soon I will also meet my new teammates. This about the community and the combination of the love for the game is the reason why I am looking forward to draft night and seeing how the future pans out for me in this wonderful league.
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?
Originally, when I came into the league I really wanted to play cornerback, but seeing how many defensive backs there were I decided to go for a challenge and play quarterback. If my team ever has an injury bug, the coach would probably ask to help out on offense as either a running back (due to my scrambler archetype), or a fullback (again due to the scrambler archetype). Running slot plays, doing scrambles and improvising in the pocket, or help out on the special teams with returning a punt or kick, despite that being unheard of from a quarterback. The player that would closely resemble what was written above would be Taysom Hill. He was a quarterback prospect, but signed by the Saints to be a utility player that can fill in any hole in the team, from running back to even quarterback for when the QB1 went down. I’d love to help my team that way if injuries were introduced into the league. The player build I currently have is around the arm strength and speed, so I would have to change the arm strength into agility to help out with running plays as in the new sim, the agility and speed seem to be important stats for runners. As well as improvement in the hands department would help out hugely too, because offensive plays require good usage of hands in order to catch.
22) Your player has been paid to endorse a product/service. What is it? How do you endorse it?
One of my favorite ever ads in sports is the ad where Joel Embiid, the 76ers center, advertises the fact that Hulu has live sports. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjBssvRlMi4). The straight forwardness and the bluntness has so much comedic effect that it becomes funnier without necessarily trying to be. I’d love for my player to endorse a product in the same way, with a cringey advertisement followed by a fan asking “Why are you doing this?”, followed by the player saying “Money”. The advertisement I also like was a Cristiano Ronaldo Shopee ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMLSRA57JM). I’d love to combine both for a funny ad that gets lots of exposure due to how obnoxious it is, which is a modern tactic for ads because the more obnoxious it is, the more exposure it gets due to memes, and internet sharing it a lot. My player would probably advertise vitamin gummies, or a drink like PowerAde or Gatorade with an annoying song, followed by a fan coming up to ask why I do this, and my reply would be “money”. It’s a really corny idea, and seems totally forced but that’s an effective way to advertise in the modern day, with cringey ads becoming more and more exposed due to how easy it is to ruin them with memes.
The community and the overall idea of the league really helps me to stay interested in the league. First, the community is one of the most overall nice people I’ve met in a huge group. I have yet to meet a bad apple, or don’t think I’ll even meet one. You could ask anyone for help and they will do their best to answer your question. From a vet who answers the question with their experience, to a rookie who will help you find the person who will answer properly. The love of the game is also a huge part of why it keeps me interested. When I moved to the United States, I made a ton of friends in a school with a language that’s completely foreign to me, with a sport that was completely foreign to me. Not much other activities on this planet can unite people with such passion about a game where being a tough person is the key. I don’t have a job in the league yet, but I look forward to one because the experience I had even without being in a team is already amazing, and the best is yet to even come. I don’t think there’s much improvement for the league, minor things really. Training mini-games that help a player earn points for themselves would be my only suggestion so far. With a new simulator being used this upcoming season, I look forward to seeing how that would affect the league and rosters, with some archetypes becoming better than others and some archetypes losing their viability. The whole idea of archetypes is really creative, it allows individuality for every player. Another idea that allows individuality is the twitter and media parts which allow the league to deepen the experience and intractability. I look forward to writing media and maybe creating a twitter for my player in the future. Being a prospect, I’ve been really lucky to have an opportunity to speak to General Managers who are planning on their DSFL, and it’s been nice to talk to all of them and see how they want to run their teams and what their future plans are. It’s been a great part to talk to the prospects I got to talk to and hope to compete with them in the future, and hopefully soon I will also meet my new teammates. This about the community and the combination of the love for the game is the reason why I am looking forward to draft night and seeing how the future pans out for me in this wonderful league.
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?
Originally, when I came into the league I really wanted to play cornerback, but seeing how many defensive backs there were I decided to go for a challenge and play quarterback. If my team ever has an injury bug, the coach would probably ask to help out on offense as either a running back (due to my scrambler archetype), or a fullback (again due to the scrambler archetype). Running slot plays, doing scrambles and improvising in the pocket, or help out on the special teams with returning a punt or kick, despite that being unheard of from a quarterback. The player that would closely resemble what was written above would be Taysom Hill. He was a quarterback prospect, but signed by the Saints to be a utility player that can fill in any hole in the team, from running back to even quarterback for when the QB1 went down. I’d love to help my team that way if injuries were introduced into the league. The player build I currently have is around the arm strength and speed, so I would have to change the arm strength into agility to help out with running plays as in the new sim, the agility and speed seem to be important stats for runners. As well as improvement in the hands department would help out hugely too, because offensive plays require good usage of hands in order to catch.
22) Your player has been paid to endorse a product/service. What is it? How do you endorse it?
One of my favorite ever ads in sports is the ad where Joel Embiid, the 76ers center, advertises the fact that Hulu has live sports. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjBssvRlMi4). The straight forwardness and the bluntness has so much comedic effect that it becomes funnier without necessarily trying to be. I’d love for my player to endorse a product in the same way, with a cringey advertisement followed by a fan asking “Why are you doing this?”, followed by the player saying “Money”. The advertisement I also like was a Cristiano Ronaldo Shopee ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMLSRA57JM). I’d love to combine both for a funny ad that gets lots of exposure due to how obnoxious it is, which is a modern tactic for ads because the more obnoxious it is, the more exposure it gets due to memes, and internet sharing it a lot. My player would probably advertise vitamin gummies, or a drink like PowerAde or Gatorade with an annoying song, followed by a fan coming up to ask why I do this, and my reply would be “money”. It’s a really corny idea, and seems totally forced but that’s an effective way to advertise in the modern day, with cringey ads becoming more and more exposed due to how easy it is to ruin them with memes.
