Write 800 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 800 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
Well, today I am going to write about the prospect of a new project I may work on one day but it is still in somewhat of a planning phase.
For anyone who knows me, they know that I am just as active, if not more active in the PBE, the Pro Baseball Experience, which is the baseball equivalent of the ISFL. In the PBE, I have quite a few roles, among them being a GM but also being the head of the awards and history team and the hall of fame committee. Besides that role, I am responsible for keeping a lot of lists in the league, among them things like all star appearances, awards history and how many awards everyone has won, etc. Through this, I had this idea of a project called Legacy Score, which is a way to put everyone's awards into a simple number to compare different players, especially in the same regression class.
This actually took me a long time and over the years I changed a lot of how it worked. People would get points for top 3-5 finishes in different awards, all star appearances, championships and more. After some time I also added some yearly milestones (if players reached a certain number for a stat, I would also give them points) and career milestones (basically the same but for career numbers).
In the end, it's nothing too serious but it is a cool project and something a lot of people seem to enjoy. People like numbers. And being able to compare themselves to other players. The system is far from perfect but it seems like a rather decent way to check how good players were, as the ranking seems fairly accurate to most people.
Since finishing that project in the PBE I have considered implementing a similar system here in the ISFL since I think people here would really enjoy it. That being said, there are some big hurdles that make it difficult to implement this here.
First off, awards work very differently here, or at least did for most of the early seasons. You only vote for the winner here, so there isn't really a top 5 for awards or anything. That means that we could definitely give people some points for winning awards but the lower spots would kind of make it a lot more random I think.
Milestones are also a difficult thing since we have had quite a few different eras here already. Different lengths of seasons and such and different league standards. It would be very difficult to choose milestones that would fit different seasons.
My idea to combat this issue is to maybe take instead a sort of top list. I.e. When it comes to quarterbacks, let's say the QB with the most yards gets 10 points, the one with second most gets 7 points, then 5, 3, 2, 1. You can do the same with Touchdowns, etc. You would basically have to do an own system for every position to be able to compare different position groups a little, though similar to regression classes, the easiest would still be to compare positions to each other specifically to get a more accurate result.
That being said I think this system could work and you could definitely make an argument that this would be a way to compare players to each other in somewhat accurate ways. I have not started on this but I think there is a lot of potential on this and something that could really be interesting to a lot of people.
I think obviously QB is easy but other positions would be more difficult. Especially defense would be a difficult thing since different positions often overlap in different categories. Would it be wise to just take every position group into their own stats? I.e. whoever had the most tackles among DTs? I actually don't think that's helpful sometimes because people play out of position and that makes it almost impossible to separate that. I think you just have to take things a bit less strict. I.e. top person gets 10 points, then the spots 2-5 get 7 points, the places 6-20 get 5, the places 21 to 50 get 3, or whatever. That way, even DTs or whatever would get points in that category. Same for other categories on defense. I think this way you could compare different players in the defensive end.
I really do wonder who would end up being the greatest of all time in this league in this statistic. It was pretty obvious in the PBE but I actually don't know who would be the person here to do it. I wonder if me doing it, we will find out one day. I wonder if it would be a QB like Mike Boss or a defender since there are more categories, or if it was just someone who has played a lot of seasons. Very difficult to say!
If you are interested in helping, please do pm me on discord!
Well, today I am going to write about the prospect of a new project I may work on one day but it is still in somewhat of a planning phase.
For anyone who knows me, they know that I am just as active, if not more active in the PBE, the Pro Baseball Experience, which is the baseball equivalent of the ISFL. In the PBE, I have quite a few roles, among them being a GM but also being the head of the awards and history team and the hall of fame committee. Besides that role, I am responsible for keeping a lot of lists in the league, among them things like all star appearances, awards history and how many awards everyone has won, etc. Through this, I had this idea of a project called Legacy Score, which is a way to put everyone's awards into a simple number to compare different players, especially in the same regression class.
This actually took me a long time and over the years I changed a lot of how it worked. People would get points for top 3-5 finishes in different awards, all star appearances, championships and more. After some time I also added some yearly milestones (if players reached a certain number for a stat, I would also give them points) and career milestones (basically the same but for career numbers).
In the end, it's nothing too serious but it is a cool project and something a lot of people seem to enjoy. People like numbers. And being able to compare themselves to other players. The system is far from perfect but it seems like a rather decent way to check how good players were, as the ranking seems fairly accurate to most people.
Since finishing that project in the PBE I have considered implementing a similar system here in the ISFL since I think people here would really enjoy it. That being said, there are some big hurdles that make it difficult to implement this here.
First off, awards work very differently here, or at least did for most of the early seasons. You only vote for the winner here, so there isn't really a top 5 for awards or anything. That means that we could definitely give people some points for winning awards but the lower spots would kind of make it a lot more random I think.
Milestones are also a difficult thing since we have had quite a few different eras here already. Different lengths of seasons and such and different league standards. It would be very difficult to choose milestones that would fit different seasons.
My idea to combat this issue is to maybe take instead a sort of top list. I.e. When it comes to quarterbacks, let's say the QB with the most yards gets 10 points, the one with second most gets 7 points, then 5, 3, 2, 1. You can do the same with Touchdowns, etc. You would basically have to do an own system for every position to be able to compare different position groups a little, though similar to regression classes, the easiest would still be to compare positions to each other specifically to get a more accurate result.
That being said I think this system could work and you could definitely make an argument that this would be a way to compare players to each other in somewhat accurate ways. I have not started on this but I think there is a lot of potential on this and something that could really be interesting to a lot of people.
I think obviously QB is easy but other positions would be more difficult. Especially defense would be a difficult thing since different positions often overlap in different categories. Would it be wise to just take every position group into their own stats? I.e. whoever had the most tackles among DTs? I actually don't think that's helpful sometimes because people play out of position and that makes it almost impossible to separate that. I think you just have to take things a bit less strict. I.e. top person gets 10 points, then the spots 2-5 get 7 points, the places 6-20 get 5, the places 21 to 50 get 3, or whatever. That way, even DTs or whatever would get points in that category. Same for other categories on defense. I think this way you could compare different players in the defensive end.
I really do wonder who would end up being the greatest of all time in this league in this statistic. It was pretty obvious in the PBE but I actually don't know who would be the person here to do it. I wonder if me doing it, we will find out one day. I wonder if it would be a QB like Mike Boss or a defender since there are more categories, or if it was just someone who has played a lot of seasons. Very difficult to say!
If you are interested in helping, please do pm me on discord!
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