The Asterisk Game

[JuOSu]

What pissed me off was what a no-brainer this was.  Not only was there a precedent already for this, but the last time this happened it took ZERO time to take in.

Season Two: Week 12, San Jose SaberCats AT Yellowknife.  In a low-scoring game, the Cats barely won in OT, despite being on the road and against a better team (by TPE, record, PD, etc).  The Wraiths were immediately informed that because the results weren't saved there would be a re-sim, but that the results would be the SAME.  There was no chance of winning.  We had to sit and watch our team BARELY lose twice, the second time knowing what to expect.  Now, if you simmed that game 100 times, the Wraiths would have won a little over 80 of them.  However, because we lost that first sim, we AUTOMATICALLY lost the second. 

When it was announced there would have to be a re-sim, I didn't care because this precedent was well in mind.  Jiggly asked if he could have Atasuke put in the sim, and I had no issue with it because it meant stats going to a legal player and not a bot.  I knew that Jiggly cared about keeping players engaged and probably was trying to get Atasuke involved somehow.  That's his thing.  I agreed to THAT.  However, I agreed to it knowing that the end result would not be changed because there was already an existing precedent.

Now, to @`Dermot` and @Sweetwater, you've both done a lot for this site, and Dermot HAS been a great DSFL asset, and Sweet has been great to me, personally.  But we are in the Thunderdome.

To the Head Office: EAT ALL THE DICKS.

The Marshals/Blues game was simmed at 5:04 PM PST and it was discovered immediately that the game didn't save.  An announcement of the ruling (again, for a precedent that had ALREADY been set) didn't come down until 7:21 PST...TWO HOURS AND 17 MINUTES LATER.  During that time, there were ZERO posts by HO members in the DSFL discord.  Do me a favor, imagine this happening to an NSFL game and waiting that long with NOTHING in between.  You can't, can you?

Once the ruling was announced, THEN HO popped in to tell us how fucking disappointed you were with our behavior and how we should have reached out to you on the site.  Tough shit.  When YOU stop doing your job, you don't get to bitch about how others did it in your place. 

Speaking of reaching out on the site, I tagged @7hawk77 with a rules question that affected EVERY DSFL team on 3 November regarding inactive OL.  He didn't respond until 6 November.  The justification for this, according to Sweetwater, was that he "wanted to check with the rest of the HO first to make sure he told [me] the right rule."  I call bullshit.

First off, Hawk does NOT have a record of making sure he understands something before posting it (see: Legion salary/bet announcement).  Second, if that's the case, respond and say "I'll get back to you, need to check."  I'm not surprised that he wouldn't do this, as Hawk has demonstrated that he cares more about being seen as an authority than actually being of service to the people (again, see the Legion thread where he says he refuses to discuss a ruling that EVERY commenter present felt was too harsh). 

Here's the really fucked up part, though.  The OL announcement was made on 23 October.  I asked a clarification question on 3 November.  That's a week and a half after everything had been sorted out enough to announce it, and that still hadn't been figured out?  And it took 3 fucking days? 

So, Hawk is slow to respond in forums, not a presence in discord, out of touch with the league, and not service-focused.  AND HE GETS PAID.  Head Office, keep an eye on this shit.  However, only Dermot has been significantly better in terms of working with the DSFL to get processes and rulings official in a prompt, helpful manner.

Now, to @Jiggly_333.  You "no longer" care about winning?  No longer?  As in, you did care?  Did you care during the two offseasons where you updated the spreadsheet ZERO times?  Did you care when the OL buffs, which I announced to the DSFL discord  to make sure everyone knew, were announced?  Did you care when you spent a second round pick on a kicker, AND HE WASN'T EVEN THE MOST ACTIVE KICKER.  If you had drafted @run_CMC in the second, I would have fucking cheered.  That is a cool guy, and would have been a great team member for you.

I can forgive you just being a shitty GM, but your fucking grandstanding that all I care about is winning while you care about the players...game on.

As the GM of the Blues, you paid your own character 4 million.  You had ACTIVE players that you only paid 1 million, which is the lowest OF ALL DSFL TEAMS.  Even the Marshals, who have the LARGEST NUMBER OF ACTIVE PLAYERS, BY THE WAY, paid every active player more than DOUBLE THAT (exception is @pulsedk, who messaged us offering to take the minimum to help his teammates).  The fact that you claim to be the player advocate when you screw your own players over financially makes you the biggest fucking hypocrite in the league.  I'm amazed you were even allowed to remain as a GM.  Okay, that isn't true.  It doesn't surprise me at all.  But five seasons from now, when the head office finally realizes what a piece of shit you've been and takes action, DON'T BE SURPRISED.

Also, which team is more active?  Have you enjoyed the podcasts that @Roly hosts, invariably involving teammates?  Have you seen all the PTs the team has been doing?  Do you know why?  Because @iamslm22 and I set the fucking bar to do them.  We contact EVERY player when they create, welcome them, offer to answer questions.  After the draft, we show them out depth charts, explain our strategies, give suggestions on build.  Both Slim and I offered to grant interviews to any teammate and let them keep the payout.  We help them improve.

Also, if accusing us of only trying to win, maybe you should look at our depth chart.  Last year, the Marshals had Isaiah Rashad as a CB, which he was awesome at, and we still have him.  This year we acquired Jorge Masvidal and Rafael Reyes as well in the later rounds of the supplemental draft.  Uh oh!  Too many DBs!  We had already drafted Gregory Fletcher and Darren Morris, as well as acquired Michael Tillman as the first waiver pick up (they are all DBs, btw).  That gave us SIX DBs.  Naturally, since Rashad, Reyes, and Masvidal were all over 100 TPE, and all I care about is winning, I told our active rookies to get acquainted with the bench, right? 

Wrong!  I moved Rashad to LB, where he is a "meh" fit, started all three active players, put Masvidal in the one remaining starting DB role, and put Reyes #2 in all formations.  I then wrote this huge ass post in the locker room explaining WHY Reyes was on the bench, and telling them that as long as they were active, they would remain starters.  I let them play, but also let them know that success wasn't free.  They would need to maintain that effort.

Last year, I spent all season watching GMs fail to do their jobs and get rewarded by still getting their players.  Even this season, did I bitch when Atkins was on the field?  No, I pointed it out, and was told it would be fixed for the NEXT game.  This was in the first quarter.  For all I knew, I could have lost that game.  Hey, mistakes, right?

All right, I'm done now.  I no longer care about something as well.  Jiggly, I *did* care about you, because I used to think you had a good heart.  You don't, though.  You are so focused on bitching about your own situation that you care NOTHING for others.  Your biggest argument in discord for getting other people to do your job (which, by the way, Er did for a while) was that things were too bad for you.  I WAS PREPARING TO BE COURT-MARTIALED  FOR BEING AWOL DESPITE HAVING NOTIFIED MY SUPERIORS WHILE ALSO BEING SCHEDULED FOR MANDATORY THERAPY SESSIONS BECAUSE I WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE EVEN THOUGH THE INVESTIGATION CLEARED ME.  You think MY week has been easy?

Those are some big issues and it is good you brought them up. The DSFL is largely ignored by the league and that cannot be good. A decision should have been finalized before the game and also not taken as long as it did. Preach.

[Keyg_an]

As the GM of the Blues, you paid your own character 4 million.  You had ACTIVE players that you only paid 1 million, which is the lowest OF ALL DSFL TEAMS.  Even the Marshals, who have the LARGEST NUMBER OF ACTIVE PLAYERS, BY THE WAY, paid every active player more than DOUBLE THAT (exception is @pulsedk, who messaged us offering to take the minimum to help his teammates).  The fact that you claim to be the player advocate when you screw your own players over financially makes you the biggest fucking hypocrite in the league.  I'm amazed you were even allowed to remain as a GM.  Okay, that isn't true.  It doesn't surprise me at all.  But five seasons from now, when the head office finally realizes what a piece of shit you've been and takes action, DON'T BE SURPRISED.

Does this make Jiggly the first GM since it was announced GM's would be paid to not take the minimum?

[Keyg_an]

I can confirm that Jiggly is one of three GM's with a contract above minimum.

@ItsJustBarry has a 3,000,000 dollar contract but it was signed before he became a GM.

@Daybe Apparently you also signed before becoming a GM.


Therefore Jiggly is officially the only GM to take above minimum after the GM pay announcement

[iamslm22]

I can confirm that Jiggly is one of three GM's with a contract above minimum.

@ItsJustBarry has a 3,000,000 dollar contract but it was signed before he became a GM.

@Daybe Apparently you also signed before becoming a GM.


Therefore Jiggly is officially the only GM to take above minimum after the GM pay announcement

And it's even worse since Jiggly is supposed to be mentoring and assisting younger players. He's actively harming new people by taking extra money.

[ItsJustBarry]

And it's even worse since Jiggly is supposed to be mentoring and assisting younger players. He's actively harming new people by taking extra money.

Not quite. Before if a player joined (i.e. myself) you got a flat $2M contract. Now since DSFL has so much cap space, everyone who is active is getting $4-5M deals to do the exact same thing.

[iamslm22]

Not quite.  Before if a player joined (i.e. myself) you got a flat $2M contract.  Now since DSFL has so much cap space, everyone who is active is getting $4-5M deals to do the exact same thing.

Players on his team are active with 1M contract. So it's not really fair for him to get 4M

[ItsJustBarry]

Players on his team are active with 1M contract. So it's not really fair for him to get 4M

If you really want "fair" make every DSFL contract a flat $2M and skip the salary cap completely.

[iamslm22]

If you really want "fair" make every DSFL contract a flat $2M and skip the salary cap completely.

I think it makes more sense to do it the way we do, I just never thought a GM would be selfish like that, ya know.

[Waters]

Jesus christ, you're a fucking wreck. I couldn't even get out of fucking bed 2 weeks ago because I couldn't bring myself to even try to live whatever the fuck I can realistically call my life. @Rindiee can testify, we had like a 40 minute conversation about it, but I at least did my fucking due diligence. I contacted my friend about the logo he was making for my team, I worked on the draft with Rindiee, I tried my best to help out new members, all the while maintaining active players in 3 other sim leagues and helping GM the Falcons to a 2nd seed in the SMJHL. I'm GM in 2 sim leagues but I didn't abandon either team. All you had to do was not be ignorant and know what your job was, yet you somehow failed that, and instead of actually taking responsibility for it (I know you keep saying "omg its my fault " but you clearly dont mean it considering you fired your Co-GM for not doing your job and blamed HO for you not knowing how to update your roster properly), you make this post which i somehow can't even come close to sympathizing with despite being in the exact same position. If you actually want advice, if anything, if you're struggling with depression, you should be putting all of your time into the blues and interacting with your players, putting your focus into something you enjoy really makes life worth living. If you can't do that, you clearly don't enjoy GMing and you're just doing it for the title. Take my advice as a person who has struggled with this shit since I was growing pubes, or don't, I don't really care, but sort yourself out.

[kckolbe]

If you really want "fair" make every DSFL contract a flat $2M and skip the salary cap completely.

I get the intent, but that would make the Marshals harder to dethrone. The cap is the ONLY thing keeping this team somewhat in check. We just cut a player and are still only 1m under, and have 5 picks in the first 3 rounds of next year. We might have to make a bad trade to stay under, and this is a good thing for the DSFL.