(S30) Offseason Point Task

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In at least 300 words, talk about users that have made a positive effect on your time in the league. Whether it’s people that helped you when you started out, or people you talk to on a daily basis, there are many ways to go with this. Please write new things if you had posted in that thread, we will be checking. Try to tag the people you talked to, spread the positivity Heart .

I've said this before when writing on similar topics, but I think these kinds of PTs are great to think about the huge number of league employees who actually make this whole thing work. Updaters, auditors, bankers, media graders - all of them are important to oil the machinery underpinning everything else. The work the GMs do is really obvious to everyone on each team, but the league positions aren't always up front and making big changes. At the same time, though, because so much of what these people do isn't seen so directly, I don't have a specific set of people who I think are just killing it doing these jobs. Sure, I could look through my update thread and thank the dozen or so people (besides me) who have posted in it, but it's the whole collection of everyone rather than one single individual. Despite that, I did want to say thank you again to them.

As far as specific individuals other than my GMs, @infinitempg and the fantasy bot have been invaluable in making the fantasy experience here great. I think fantasy is maybe my second favorite thing in the league after writing media but it wouldn't be that way without the tools and introspection the bot provides. Sure, the information it's giving me is (presumably?) out there in a spreadsheet somewhere where I could find it myself, but the commands the bot has are super useful for turning the raw data into contextual information that's useful to actually make decisions. Just as with the rest of the league, there are certainly others who are involved in setting up the groups, transferring stats from the sim files to the sheets, processing waivers, and all that, but the bot just puts a lot of utility in once place and clearly says who made it, so I did want to mention that. Plus, who could hate the number of bad jokes and puppy gifs it has too? Truly we are better off with it present.