10.) Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
My players start to the season was slightly late and a little slow. I wasn't as good an earner as a lot of the other rookies so I quickly fell behind the other players until I finally got on a roll and started pouring points into my player's build. With that debacle out of the way though, Siege Cameron and his Coyote comrades embarked on an amazing journey through the season.
When I entered the locker room and first started interacting at the start of the season I quickly found out that last year's KCC team went 1-13 and they were trying to turn it all around this season. However, the Coyote's first half of this season started off almost as bad as last season. If I remember correctly we started off with a solid record of 2-2 with lots of optimism, but then immediately went on a 5 game losing streak to give us a stinking record of 2-7. It was not the start that anybody wanted but we knew we were a young team and a not-so-good record would be expected even if we wanted to surpass last season's limits. I didn't mind this sort of record and locker room mood though. Sure, we were a little disappointed but as a whole we weren't particularly upset and were just happy to be earning and fighting hard in games. Some of those games were close losses and had some great individual performances so we just brushed off what went wrong and celebrated what went right. Everyone including me was having fun on a bottom team with high potential.
But then, the unthinkable happened, and it all started with me making a bold claim to boost team morale even more. After our descent to 2-7 on the season, I looked at the standings as a whole and did a little bit of an analysis. My quick analysis told me that despite our horrid start to the season, it was still mathematically possible to make the playoffs. It required that we won all 5 of final games and two of the other teams in our conference to fall apart to finish their seasons. Sure, it was a long shot, but it was worth every bit of hope the way I saw it. And the way our defense had been coming together, I had no doubt that we would pull it off.
Sure enough, we won 5 straight games to finish the season which included a big win against the Dallas juggernaut in our last week, and our conference rivals did us a favor and lost just enough for us to snag our playoff spot. It was an amazing last week comeback and a great finish to a season we almost gave up all hope on.
11.) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, your locker room, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
Initially I was a bit skeptical of how fun it would be to join a sim league and watch some dots move around from time to time. However, after watching my own player play in a simulation and make any impact whatsoever, I was completely captivated. Like I said earlier, I started off as a slow earner, but immediately began earning as much as I could when I discovered how fun it was to watch my player's name pop up in the text box at the end of plays in each simulation. I made my player a CB after being inspired by Jaire Alexander's phenomenal NFL season and watching Siege Cameron deflect passes and come up with some big time interceptions ended up being much more fun than I ever imagined.
On top of the sim exceeding my entertainment expectations, the experience in the locker room has done just as much. Everyone in the KCC locker room has a great personality/sense of humor and they're all kind. There's no downside to being in that locker room whatsoever. Not only that, but our awful start to the season actually made it a bit easier to bond in my opinion. Nobody particularly liked losing, but everyone was capable of having a laugh about a crushing loss or a total blunder any given week. Instead of despairing or just blaming the sim the whole locker room loved to take it to the chin by chuckling about what went wrong and projecting optimism for the next game. Whether it was our first loss the Portland where we gave up a huge second half comeback or our second loss to Portland where we somehow gave up 270 yards and 3 touchdowns on only 5 [redacted] rushes, the locker room was always a fun place to be and made me want to hop on discord and speak to people every day, despite how introverted I normally am.
The best part of the league for me is combining those things on game days. Watching the sim and commenting on it with other people in the locker room has no business being as fun as it is and I don't believe I missed a single game once I really got into it. I don't know if there's anything I would say could be improved, but I wish getting payouts from graphics were faster just because my player has gotten kind of broke pretty quickly (nervous laughter). I can't blame the graders for that though because they have lots of graphics to grade and I'm thankful that I can even submit graphics for money in the first place!
My players start to the season was slightly late and a little slow. I wasn't as good an earner as a lot of the other rookies so I quickly fell behind the other players until I finally got on a roll and started pouring points into my player's build. With that debacle out of the way though, Siege Cameron and his Coyote comrades embarked on an amazing journey through the season.
When I entered the locker room and first started interacting at the start of the season I quickly found out that last year's KCC team went 1-13 and they were trying to turn it all around this season. However, the Coyote's first half of this season started off almost as bad as last season. If I remember correctly we started off with a solid record of 2-2 with lots of optimism, but then immediately went on a 5 game losing streak to give us a stinking record of 2-7. It was not the start that anybody wanted but we knew we were a young team and a not-so-good record would be expected even if we wanted to surpass last season's limits. I didn't mind this sort of record and locker room mood though. Sure, we were a little disappointed but as a whole we weren't particularly upset and were just happy to be earning and fighting hard in games. Some of those games were close losses and had some great individual performances so we just brushed off what went wrong and celebrated what went right. Everyone including me was having fun on a bottom team with high potential.
But then, the unthinkable happened, and it all started with me making a bold claim to boost team morale even more. After our descent to 2-7 on the season, I looked at the standings as a whole and did a little bit of an analysis. My quick analysis told me that despite our horrid start to the season, it was still mathematically possible to make the playoffs. It required that we won all 5 of final games and two of the other teams in our conference to fall apart to finish their seasons. Sure, it was a long shot, but it was worth every bit of hope the way I saw it. And the way our defense had been coming together, I had no doubt that we would pull it off.
Sure enough, we won 5 straight games to finish the season which included a big win against the Dallas juggernaut in our last week, and our conference rivals did us a favor and lost just enough for us to snag our playoff spot. It was an amazing last week comeback and a great finish to a season we almost gave up all hope on.
11.) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, your locker room, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
Initially I was a bit skeptical of how fun it would be to join a sim league and watch some dots move around from time to time. However, after watching my own player play in a simulation and make any impact whatsoever, I was completely captivated. Like I said earlier, I started off as a slow earner, but immediately began earning as much as I could when I discovered how fun it was to watch my player's name pop up in the text box at the end of plays in each simulation. I made my player a CB after being inspired by Jaire Alexander's phenomenal NFL season and watching Siege Cameron deflect passes and come up with some big time interceptions ended up being much more fun than I ever imagined.
On top of the sim exceeding my entertainment expectations, the experience in the locker room has done just as much. Everyone in the KCC locker room has a great personality/sense of humor and they're all kind. There's no downside to being in that locker room whatsoever. Not only that, but our awful start to the season actually made it a bit easier to bond in my opinion. Nobody particularly liked losing, but everyone was capable of having a laugh about a crushing loss or a total blunder any given week. Instead of despairing or just blaming the sim the whole locker room loved to take it to the chin by chuckling about what went wrong and projecting optimism for the next game. Whether it was our first loss the Portland where we gave up a huge second half comeback or our second loss to Portland where we somehow gave up 270 yards and 3 touchdowns on only 5 [redacted] rushes, the locker room was always a fun place to be and made me want to hop on discord and speak to people every day, despite how introverted I normally am.
The best part of the league for me is combining those things on game days. Watching the sim and commenting on it with other people in the locker room has no business being as fun as it is and I don't believe I missed a single game once I really got into it. I don't know if there's anything I would say could be improved, but I wish getting payouts from graphics were faster just because my player has gotten kind of broke pretty quickly (nervous laughter). I can't blame the graders for that though because they have lots of graphics to grade and I'm thankful that I can even submit graphics for money in the first place!
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