(S27) Ultimus Week

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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.

I want to write a bit about my experience in my time being with the Honolulu Hahalua. When i created my player Heinrich Kackpoo, i was determined to produce the best bit of player i could possibly do. That means going max earning and collect every bit of TPE possible. At the start of his carreer this was going nicely. I was earning at a fast rate and had, at the time of the draft a staggering 289 TPE. At that time this amount was among the highest at the time of the ISFL draft. I thought i had a pretty good chance at going 1OA, especially as i knew that at the time the yeti had a spot open at LB. Little did i know, i solely concentrated on earning and was not really contributing in any way in the locker room. As it turned out the teams around the ISFL also look at how active you are in the LR, so Heinrich fell to be picked with the third pick. I still was very excited that my player was selected this early.
The first 2-3 season were.... mixed, i guess that is the right way to put it. Although we were not having what you would call a bad season. We were still not able to get into the playoffs. But that was not the main reason i felt that there was a piece or two missing. We didn't have what you would call a vibing and buzzing locker room. There simply wasn't much going on. I mean the GMs were really trying hard to keep convos going and put a lot of effort into creating an interesting and fun environment but there were simply too much IA players on the team. I thought about requesting a trade. Interestingly, everytime i thought i was ready to move on, there was something happening, where i thought to myself: No, i really want to see how this or that works out and so i stayed.
Eventually this season the locker room started to take off. There were a few aspects to this. First and foremost we got ourselves a designated hype man for gamedays. It sometimes leaves me a bit headscratching but hey, i appreciate the effort and getting all hyped up on gamedays. It was a fun experience and i mean that is everything that i want to get from this league. Enjoying my time around here, getting to know the people who dedicate large portions of their time into this experience.
Also i think that in the last few drafts we really hit a few homerun picks. Just to name a few here, but numbers was a great addition. He is incredibly active, joined our war room day one, helped with sim testing and is an overal very enjoyable guy. He contributed massively to lift the discord experience for everyone. Gumba an  Orbiting Death also boosted the conversations greatly. This season i really started to feel more and more confident, that the choice to stay here was the right one. That doesn't mean that i am solely after individual awards for Heinrich Kackpoo or that i just want to win as many titles as i possibly can. My goals were shifted greatly. Now i really just want to enjoy the discussions and conversations. I want to see us making improvements from season to season, and maybe one time be able to land big free agents around the league. This was a bit of a problem in the last seasons but if we manage to keep our activity at the rate it now is, i am sure that there will be people that will choose to join Honolulu with its unique LR experience.

This season was a bit of light and shadow. Of course our regular season was outstanding, we really took off and i am hoping that we will be able to somewhat sustain the success we had in this year. To be honest i am a bit doubtful, that our next season will be as good, as our top WR is regressing again and we have a bit of a hole there for next season. Additionally the human OL will get a boost, so we won't be able to sustain the level of performance on our OL. We definitely have to address that in future drafts. Also this season was a bit of a unique one with the sim change and some teams needed a bit more time than others to get their strats together, so it will definitely be more competitive next season. That being said, i think that we definitly have a good chance to make the playoffs again. We have really good players still sitting in the DSFL. We'll see who will be called up next season. All in all i think the teams i set up for future success, and if we can hit on our picks again as we did in the last 2-3 drafts the team is only going to be stronger and stronger.

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