(S30) Ultimus Week

[JayWhy75]

14. 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?

I'm going to take this opportunity to look at not only my season, but also the seasons of my ISFL and DSFL teams.

Starting on my own season, it was practically all low lights here. I had 300 fewer yards on just 4 fewer catches, 9 fewer catches of 20+ yards and didn't ever get over 40 yards on a reception either. I managed only one more touchdown than last season, so it's not like I was getting many more targets in the red zone. Realistically, it was a very difficult season for me. In total, I had over 600 fewer yards as I lost kick return duties and started to become a more short yardage option for the team instead. It was a bit disappointing, but it was what the team needed me to be.

It didn't really help a lot, though. Tijuana kind of limped forward this season, and only finished 7-6. It felt like we were barely holding on practically all season, and definitely struggled hard when it mattered most as we started the season 3-1, even 4-2 and then sputtered out and collapsed all together. This team needs a kick in the ass, it feels like, and I just don't know that that'll come around in time for us to win the Ultimini.

That's further disappointment for me as I know I'll be going up next season and so I've missed my shot at winning something while here. But Colorado is a great team, with a remarkable defense who unfortunately went 8-8, losing 7 of those 8 games by just one score or less. It really seemed like just an unlucky season all around, and ultimately was a disappointment for a lot of people. I know the team will turn it around, and I expect that next season I will put up some good yardage as Colorado Yeeti is going to take flight. Colorado was second in the league in passing this season and had the most attempts by a wide margin. They're the Air Raid offense if I ever saw it, or Air Coryell I guess.

While there will be a lot of targets to contend with in Colorado, especially with William Lim there, I think I should be able to make my mark underneath like I did with Tijuana this season and can be a roughly 500 yard receiver for my rookie season. I'll take what I can get and if I can get more, awesome, but I won't be expecting too much here, just to be safe.

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21. Now thats three seasons on the new sim. What are your thoughts? Do you think that it is better than DDSPF16?

I'll be honest, I have no experience with DDSPF16 to really be able to comment on the differences from sim to sim that way. Which begs the question of why I would choose this prompt to do. Well, because I have a lot of experience in other sim leagues -- especially the SHL -- with their sim experiences that I can draw on.

One issue that I know is brought up in every simulation is realism. Usually it's brought up regarding certain teams winning or losing consistently. "It isn't realistic for this team to beat that team" is the natural cry of a good team who got unlucky. However, if you look at it, the Jets and Jaguars won games last year. The amount of teams to go 0-16 in the NFL level are rare. I think the realism is fine enough, maybe not the greatest but still good.

What I do find concerning with the simulation though is that it does feel like there are metas to it. There will be for every sim, but in the sense that it feels a lot like STHS was for the SHL. It only has so many inputs and outputs, the stuff we see can often not make sense for it to do, and it can seem pretty much random on whether or not you'll do well just by the whims of the sim.

This is why really I think test simming is worthless and pointless. Especially in football where you can only do so much. It's one game at a time, maybe two against an opponent. Whatever you test, that one game can go 100 different ways and you may never see 90 of those ways in your tests even if you did 1000 of them. This simulation is not exactly stellar, but it is what we have and that's fine.

I can't say if it's better than 16, but I can say that it does remind me a lot of STHS in the SHL, and there is a reason that we moved on from that. If there are metas, if there are ways to work around the edges, teams will do that. That's just a given. There's only so much the head office can do, or a team can do, to stop it. It isn't a perfect sim, but none of them are, and this one should be just fine for a while.

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32. Affliate PT from either SHL/PBE. The Weeks must match with the timeframe of this UW. And you may only use a max of 1.

SHL Affiliate