(S27) Ultimus Week

sapp2013 · 03-15-2021, 10:09 PM

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15) Write about another sim league you are in and which parts of it you enjoy. If you are only in the ISFL, write about your ideas for a sim league with another sport. +5.0 TPE (411 words)

Alright so I am not in any other sim leagues, so I'll talk about one I want to create. I am a huge tennis fan (Division III collegiate tennis player and current Division III tennis coach), so I have always wanted to find a tennis simulator league. The closest I can get to that is the various subpar console and PC games that are out, or this one app that is super hard to find now, but you only control and update yourself while everyone else stays stagnant. Anyways, so I got bored during a week and using my excel powers, I created a simulator for tennis matches. There are 9 different attributes: Forehand, backhand, power, service, volley, technique, speed, doubles, and endurance. I also have each player choose a strong court type and a weak court type, between hard indoor, clay, grass, and hard outdoor courts. I have created over 300 unique players that update as they get older with a maximum of 13 years played in the league. There are various tournaments each week that reward points based on the level of competition (like the ATP if you are familiar), and I can accommodate singles, doubles, 3-set, and 5-set matches. I have the annual schedule all planned out and have actually gone through about 3 months schedule with each player. The stats are automatically kept and exported once the tournament is finished. The only thing that I need now is more users, a helper, and time lol. I think it is super fun, and we can throw team stuff in there so it is not always about your individual accomplishments. I have also created a way to converting it to a college format so it is much more of a team format than following the ATP style. I have gone so far as naming all of the potential national tournaments and creating some teams to make sure everything seems balanced. If a all-encompassing college sim league gets created, where they have many sports, including baseball, basketball, football, and soccer, this might be the spot to throw my simulator in for discussion. The one downside of it is that it is a straight numbers simulator. You can not follow around colorful dots to tell what the game score is, but it is possible to upload the stats in a way where it is like watching a match game by game. Anyways, that is what my sim league creation would be!

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17) Describe the unique food items sold in your team’s home stadium. Write about the most popular items among your team’s fans and players, or create a graphic showing the menu of featured foods in the stadium. +2.5 TPE (204 words)

Freddy Bly's favorite thing about the Kibbie Dome in college is the Baked Potato concession stand they have there. Everything you order is a base of a baked Idaho Potato. I am surprised people have not gotten sick of eating them yet. Anyways, They have a variety of different things to throw on the baked potato, such as chili, Teriyaki chicken and noodles, sauteed veggies, pulled pork and BBQ sauce, Taco meat and fixings, and so much more. They even allowed (see the past tense used here) students to vote on their favorite creations to be ultimately put on the menu board permanently! This all changed in 2037 when the winner of the competition was literally just crest toothpaste inside of a baked potato. And this did not just win by a slight majority, but the student body almost unanimously voted for this option, with it receiving 93.1% of the votes! They do still change up the menu from time to time and have certain game day specials, but the tradition of a student created baked potato creation is now gone from the infamous Kibbie Dome. Long live the Toothpaste baked potato, the baked potato that killed student creativity at the University of Idaho.

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21) What team do you think has the best branding in the league? What team do you think could use a refresh? Why? +2.5 TPE (221 Words)

The team that I believe has the best branding in the league is the Yellowknife Wraiths. They have a little bit of scary, little bit of minimalism, and a little bit of color scheme swagoo. Nothing looks cleaner than a baby blue on a dark grey background. it is just, if I may quote Andre 3000 from the band Outkast, "So fresh and so clean". I guess that means I also have to give a shoutout to the grey ducks for copying the Wraiths successful color scheme, but that is hard for me when the team is based in Minnesota. I have to give a shoutout to the sailfish as well. The colors just compliment each other so well. The team I believe needs a rebrand is the Butchers of Chicago. To me, the logo is just a little meh, and there are already two other red/black teams in the ISFL. Come up with something original, like the Lake Michigan Wendigos or the Wisconsin Milkmen or the Terra Haute Truckers, or the South Dakota Jackalopes. Crap, gotta write these down. I guess you cant really go with a different color scheme for a team named the butchers, so they just need to be relocated, Jiggly be damned. Like to Wisconsin. Have I said that enough here? Wisconsin needs a team.