12-16-2021, 05:45 PM
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6. Write 600 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 600 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
Well it'll be a few somethings about the league that interest me, hopefully.....
-Wow, the Defensive Player of the Year race is going to be very very close this year. On the legalized assault side of things, you've got BamBam McMullet, the Berlin Linebacker who lead the league with 20 sacks. He also forced 2 fumbles, deflected 12 passes, and picked off 2 passes. A guy with Mullet in his last name has to be dusted in grit, and he's certainly a worthy candidate. You could also argue for Philly Linebacker Gary Goodman, who had 18 sacks and 4 interceptions, returning one for a touchdown, as well as Chicago Linebacker Juan Domine, who racked up 16 sacks, 2 interceptions, and forced 4 fumbles, recovering 3. Juan also scored a defensive touchdown, forced a safety, and blocked a field goal.
-Then on the ballhawking side of things, Arizona Cornerback Rich Triplet had enemy receivers seeing triple in Season 32, racking up 91 tackles, intercepting 6 passes, forcing and recovering 2 fumbles. Rich also deflected 35 passes, and was a key cog in the Outlaws 12-4 season (as well as their #1 pass defense that only yielded 248.7 passing yards per game). Overall, quite a few candidates for a prestigious award.
-Can we please start expanding the playoffs to 4 teams per conference? Its ridiculous that we do this 3 teams stuff, when most of the 4 seeds have been pretty competent teams. Only 2 or 3 in the past few seasons have been below .500. The 6-10 Silverbacks at one point, sure that one is pretty egregious, but the 7-9 Colorado Yeti this year wouldn't have been terrible as a playoff team. They were 7-4 at one point but just disintegrated down the stretch, but there are 9-7 teams who feel like they're faking it til they make it. Plus, the game forces 8 teams in the playoffs instead of 6 anyways. Might as well expand it to make it possible for some of us to gain actual TPE from playoff predictions?
-Speaking of playoff predictions: Geez Louise mine were terrible. Everyone was tipping New York as a first round exit and now they're in the Ultimus. Furthermore, a good Philly team fell by the wayside in the finals, with their offense getting starved of big plays in an ugly 16-12 loss to Berlin. So the ISFL gets the expansion final they wanted to promote the game in Europe and in America's biggest market. Of course the Ultimus is taking place in Australia because reasons, but if this league were real they'd still be making bank.
-My condolences to my kouhai in Portland for losing yet another great chance at an Ultimini. Personally I think we got hosed by some uncalled pass interferences in that desperation drive to win late in the 4th quarter, as well as that ghastly missed extra point that kept it 26-22 rather than 26-23.
-Finally, there is a part of me that worries immensely about the future of ISFL and sim sports in general. It seems like the COVID spike leading to more activity is now levelling off as society tries to resume, and I'm wondering if people are going to bail from sim sports because of no longer having time / burnout. Then we add in the stupidity of Reddit refusing to allow small groups like us to advertise properly unless they're corporations jacking themselves off, and its making me worried. Sim sports should be a lot more popular than they are, the concept is great (even if a few sports are held back by terrible sim logic, particularly the game running this league), but we're not allowed to grow beyond this niche. Its stupid.
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