6) 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.
Hello friends and welcome back to TC's history lessons where I use Ultimus tasks to discuss some of the weird things in the early days of the league that I remember. You'll recall in previous editions we've discussed Legion Retires Many, the Garden Drop, and the OL Bot Power Shift of S4. So, in this season's edition what little tidbit of history do I have to tell you about? Well I figured I would change it up and discuss the DSFL this time, specifically the story of how a bot team won the Ultimini. That's right today we're going to talk about the Season 5 Solar Bears unlikely rise to the top.
We begin with a man we haven't heard from in a long, long time. @PoloPro aka Booter was a member of the league from very early on. He was well known for being a Polo player, which is a weird sport that involves horses and croquet. Rich people are into it. Anyways when HO asked for people willing to GM a bot team, Booter put in and won a bid. Why were they looking for a bot team GM? Because we didn't have enough people to support a 6 team DSFL, and that was the minimum teams for the sim, so we made fake teams with bots.
Booter's idea was simple, let's take this brand new bot team and try to win some games in really cheesy ways. Brilliant, it couldn't possibly backfire. So, what's the first step to stealing games with only 100 TPE bots against teams that had real player with 200+ TPE? Easy, bring someone into the circle who has stupid ideas. Enter....me (TC four haters later: lol this sounds dirty). Booter reaches out to me and tells me his silly idea, and asks what sort of weird archetypes, builds, and play designs we can come up with. So we came up with some really dumb ideas.
First we used a QB with all of his TPE in speed as a wide receiver. The HO caught on after a few games and we got nerfed. No more QB at WR. Then we took that exact same QB and put him at running back. Lol they were really pissed at that move. Our bad. So we got a few games out of that clowning but that wasn't enough, we needed some really good defense. This is where the Run Stuffer DT DL came in. We had all four players on our DL as 360lb run stuffing DTs (that was the archetype weight then). You see very few teams had player OL and there were no bot OL. So OL were absolute trash in the DSFL. Facing off against our strong fat DL and our super fast LBs guess what happened? We led the league in sacks with 68. We also blocked 3 punts and got 3 safeties. Yeah that front 7 was nasty.
Booter gets most of the credit for this though because while some of the ideas were mine on what kind of bots to build and what kind of strategies to approach he really did the bulk of sim testing and whatnot say in and day out. I was very much the shadow GM behind the system that had the ideas but he did a ton. So let's not get that part of it twisted while I tell this story. He was the one to first think to try the broken QB build at RB and it really worked even better than the QB at WR did. Too bad we didn't abuse that one more.
By the end of the season we finished with an 8-5-1 record which was good enough to lead the conference. Portland meanwhile went 10-4. We beat the snot out of the Luchadores in the conf championship and faced off against the 10-4 Pythons in the Ultimus. Where the Solar Bears won 17-13 thanks to a great performance by our QB and idk some magic we must have found somewhere because we really kinda got creamed on the statsheet. But points win games and we had points! Too bad Booter isn't still around, and neither are the Solar Bears. But a bot team won the Ultimini one time.
Later on down the line a lot of changes had to come from this performance. Naturally they felt like they needed to overcompensate for this problem. So bot teams were nerfed from 100 TPE to 80 TPE which really hurt, because let's be honest we won by getting lucky a few games and also by having some abused builds that were already fixed like some of the QB builds. Then we take into consideration that we nerfed a lot of those DL changes the next season because that was a good example of how DL weight was really OP especially with those 360lb dudes. So yeah, that's the way that ended. I'm tired of typing and I hit my word count.
Hello friends and welcome back to TC's history lessons where I use Ultimus tasks to discuss some of the weird things in the early days of the league that I remember. You'll recall in previous editions we've discussed Legion Retires Many, the Garden Drop, and the OL Bot Power Shift of S4. So, in this season's edition what little tidbit of history do I have to tell you about? Well I figured I would change it up and discuss the DSFL this time, specifically the story of how a bot team won the Ultimini. That's right today we're going to talk about the Season 5 Solar Bears unlikely rise to the top.
We begin with a man we haven't heard from in a long, long time. @PoloPro aka Booter was a member of the league from very early on. He was well known for being a Polo player, which is a weird sport that involves horses and croquet. Rich people are into it. Anyways when HO asked for people willing to GM a bot team, Booter put in and won a bid. Why were they looking for a bot team GM? Because we didn't have enough people to support a 6 team DSFL, and that was the minimum teams for the sim, so we made fake teams with bots.
Booter's idea was simple, let's take this brand new bot team and try to win some games in really cheesy ways. Brilliant, it couldn't possibly backfire. So, what's the first step to stealing games with only 100 TPE bots against teams that had real player with 200+ TPE? Easy, bring someone into the circle who has stupid ideas. Enter....me (TC four haters later: lol this sounds dirty). Booter reaches out to me and tells me his silly idea, and asks what sort of weird archetypes, builds, and play designs we can come up with. So we came up with some really dumb ideas.
First we used a QB with all of his TPE in speed as a wide receiver. The HO caught on after a few games and we got nerfed. No more QB at WR. Then we took that exact same QB and put him at running back. Lol they were really pissed at that move. Our bad. So we got a few games out of that clowning but that wasn't enough, we needed some really good defense. This is where the Run Stuffer DT DL came in. We had all four players on our DL as 360lb run stuffing DTs (that was the archetype weight then). You see very few teams had player OL and there were no bot OL. So OL were absolute trash in the DSFL. Facing off against our strong fat DL and our super fast LBs guess what happened? We led the league in sacks with 68. We also blocked 3 punts and got 3 safeties. Yeah that front 7 was nasty.
Booter gets most of the credit for this though because while some of the ideas were mine on what kind of bots to build and what kind of strategies to approach he really did the bulk of sim testing and whatnot say in and day out. I was very much the shadow GM behind the system that had the ideas but he did a ton. So let's not get that part of it twisted while I tell this story. He was the one to first think to try the broken QB build at RB and it really worked even better than the QB at WR did. Too bad we didn't abuse that one more.
By the end of the season we finished with an 8-5-1 record which was good enough to lead the conference. Portland meanwhile went 10-4. We beat the snot out of the Luchadores in the conf championship and faced off against the 10-4 Pythons in the Ultimus. Where the Solar Bears won 17-13 thanks to a great performance by our QB and idk some magic we must have found somewhere because we really kinda got creamed on the statsheet. But points win games and we had points! Too bad Booter isn't still around, and neither are the Solar Bears. But a bot team won the Ultimini one time.
Later on down the line a lot of changes had to come from this performance. Naturally they felt like they needed to overcompensate for this problem. So bot teams were nerfed from 100 TPE to 80 TPE which really hurt, because let's be honest we won by getting lucky a few games and also by having some abused builds that were already fixed like some of the QB builds. Then we take into consideration that we nerfed a lot of those DL changes the next season because that was a good example of how DL weight was really OP especially with those 360lb dudes. So yeah, that's the way that ended. I'm tired of typing and I hit my word count.
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