TASK 13: Okay, first things first, while I respect the boldness of the claim this task is making, it is decidedly false. Some members of the league enjoy discussing expansion, but others of us dread the idea; we would rather never hear it mentioned again and are quite content with the league as it stands today. That said, discussion of this topic does always feel inevitable, so, I am taking this opportunity to once again attempt to deter expansion for the near future.
But woelkers, you say, did you not yourself win a bid for this league’s season twenty-five expansion? How can you not be excited at the prospect of expanding again, and seeing what four more great minds can bring to the table for this league? And, admittedly, you have a point; I would be extremely excited to see what might come of two new expansion bids, and I relish the possibility that we might create more opportunities for the users of this league to show what they’re capable of. However, I think we, as a league, need to temper our expectations a bit, and stop getting ahead of ourselves.
You see, reader, what you may not know is that I actually argued against the season twenty-five expansion that I eventually won a bid from. Sure, I made the decision to apply for a bid to test my mettle as a general manager once the expansion determination was made, but that does not mean I did not have reservations about expanding to begin with. I was uncertain about the size of the league, and particularly about our retention rate, and whether they were sufficient to justify adding two more teams to the league. The benefit of hindsight tells me I appear to have been wrong about that, however, I do think the numbers now are far more suggestive that we should not be expanding again any time soon.
The basic fact of the matter is this: while the league does have a strong membership body, our recruitment drives have struggled to create classes capable of growing the league further, all while seasoned veterans of a league long dead have begun retiring from the game for good. We are simultaneously just reaching the point at which members of our season twenty-two and season twenty-five classes should be beginning to retire, and we have no idea how many of those users we might retain. Obviously I hope for the best; many of those users are people I have enjoyed the company of immensely, and I would love to see them return with new players as they retire. But before we are certain they will, we should pause any expansion discussions we might be having behind closed doors; our recruitment numbers alone simply won’t do the trick.
TASK 20: For this task, I've decided to highlight a good friend of mine...Sconnie McHits!
![[Image: McHitsDraftProfile.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/865398449130438717/881569811686109204/McHitsDraftProfile.png)
TASK 24: I want to tackle this task a very particular way, i.e. by only choosing players from users I haven’t had the privilege of sharing a team with yet. I apologize to those of you who won’t be featured here for that reason, but I live for a challenge.
But woelkers, you say, did you not yourself win a bid for this league’s season twenty-five expansion? How can you not be excited at the prospect of expanding again, and seeing what four more great minds can bring to the table for this league? And, admittedly, you have a point; I would be extremely excited to see what might come of two new expansion bids, and I relish the possibility that we might create more opportunities for the users of this league to show what they’re capable of. However, I think we, as a league, need to temper our expectations a bit, and stop getting ahead of ourselves.
You see, reader, what you may not know is that I actually argued against the season twenty-five expansion that I eventually won a bid from. Sure, I made the decision to apply for a bid to test my mettle as a general manager once the expansion determination was made, but that does not mean I did not have reservations about expanding to begin with. I was uncertain about the size of the league, and particularly about our retention rate, and whether they were sufficient to justify adding two more teams to the league. The benefit of hindsight tells me I appear to have been wrong about that, however, I do think the numbers now are far more suggestive that we should not be expanding again any time soon.
The basic fact of the matter is this: while the league does have a strong membership body, our recruitment drives have struggled to create classes capable of growing the league further, all while seasoned veterans of a league long dead have begun retiring from the game for good. We are simultaneously just reaching the point at which members of our season twenty-two and season twenty-five classes should be beginning to retire, and we have no idea how many of those users we might retain. Obviously I hope for the best; many of those users are people I have enjoyed the company of immensely, and I would love to see them return with new players as they retire. But before we are certain they will, we should pause any expansion discussions we might be having behind closed doors; our recruitment numbers alone simply won’t do the trick.
TASK 20: For this task, I've decided to highlight a good friend of mine...Sconnie McHits!
TASK 24: I want to tackle this task a very particular way, i.e. by only choosing players from users I haven’t had the privilege of sharing a team with yet. I apologize to those of you who won’t be featured here for that reason, but I live for a challenge.
- At quarterback, the player running the show is none other than Colby Jack (@flyeaglesfly29).
- The running back duo for this team is the dynamic mix of Deadly Memes (@Z-Whiz) and Dante King (@shadyshoelace).
- For a trio of wide receivers, we have Kai Sakura (@DarknessRising), Bayley Cowabunga (@JKortesi81), and Sam the Onion Man (@Duilio05).
- To complete our set of offensive weapons, we take tight end James Angler (@tMuse).
- Our pancake powerhouse will consist of Adam Mellott (@GuitarMaster116), Matt Krause (@SomeSay...), Alexander Franklin (@Hordle), Bernie Sanders (@caltroit_red_flames) and Zoltan (@Rangerjase).
- Our defensive tackle duo includes Patrik Money (@PMoney) and Otis Allen (@KoltClassic), to be paired with our duo of defensive ends, Asher Montain (@Attopax) and Medicinal Toblerone (@JuOSu).
- Behind them, the four members of our linebacking group will be BamBam McMullet (@manicmav36), Lawrence Bass (@RussDrivesTheBus), Sheriff Woody (@TomHanks), and Sconnie McHits (@g2019).
- Our defensive back group consists of three cornerbacks, Rich Triplet (@Kotasa), Raeni Clark (@bex), and of course Cedric Wilkins II, and two safeties, Cuco Clemente (@Billybolo53) and Spike Daniels (@Michiganonymous).
- Last but not least, our kicker will be Paul Monitor (@Hallmonitor_20), and our punter will be Matthew McDairmid (@Matty7478).
