(S8) - PT 3 - What if

[TheDangaZone]

As a new player in the league it is very hard to think about changing anything as I have not really had the time to even see what works and what does not so far. So if I am going choose some thing to change it is going to be pretty much guess work on if changing it would improve my player at all or not. I guess the first thing I would change would be to add a little bit more speed to my player initially. While I'm a power house of a back I am not the absolute fastest on the field, though I am working on that. Another thing I would change is my hands. I had a costly fumble that lead to a touchdown in Tijuana's week 3 game against San Antonio and I need to get better about holding on to that ball. Plus it would help with me catching passes out of the backfield to allow our young quarterback some extra weapons in the passing game. Other than those I am not sure there is much I would change about my player so far. These are changes I strive to make in the future though as it is only my first season in the league and I have a lot of time to grow.


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[Bzerkap]

I mean I guess last year the issue would have been turnovers. I really needed to cut down on the turnover in season seven. It was really getting unmanageable at some points. I believe I finished with 17 interceptions, which is no way to lead an offense, and due to my high carry account, I fumbled around 10 times. Luckily I only lost about two or three of those fumbles. However, the point stands that even with some dynamic running and absolutely crushing it at the goal line with 16 touchdowns, ~20 turnovers from one player is really an unacceptable statistic.

Now, I say that and yea my turnovers are down but for some crazy reason I don't have a single touchdown thrown and only two ran in. I'm the quarterback for one of the top offenses in the league and through three games I have zero touchdowns thrown to one interception. I'm pretty sure I have 0 fumbles as well, and only two rushing touchdowns. This is kind of swinging too far in the other direction. My completion percentage and turnover rate are really good, but I'm just not scoring at the same rate that I'm used to. So if the football gods are listening, maybe a happy medium between these two extremes would be nice. Pretty please?

[Jiggly_333]

So, I did have a problem with the way I created my player. But I fixed it. You see, I made a CB. But as it turns out, being a CB is really unrewarding and I'm the sort of person who needs constant validation. So I decided to be a WR instead. It was really simple. I also wanted to be shorter, so as to be more accurate with my render, but that was just rules disallowing it. So how about this:

What if I didn't make a female character?

Sure, it doesn't seem that important, but think about it. What I say about a lot of the players I make is that I like to have an important story behind them so I care about them. Even if I don't explicitly talk about it, if I'm not compelled to help them then I won't. Just because I "gave the character life" doesn't give me good enough reason to sustain the character.

So if I didn't make a female character, it'd probably be some guy. I really don't know. As I said, I like creating characters and when an idea takes me, it takes me. Most likely he would end up like Vincent Gramatica in the PBE: unless he was a star, I'd kill him off fairly quickly and then make a character I did care about.

[speculadora]

If there were one thing Jaylon Broxton would want to change about his game, it would be his ability to catch footballs. A former tight end, Broxton always believed he had good hands. He didn't drop many passes in his time at the position and he felt as if safety would be no different. Yet, when he made the transition to safety with the New Orleans Second Line, he found his hands had turned to literal stone. It was a curse seemingly put on him by the witch who transformed him from a 6'6", 250 pound white guy who was strong and ran crisp routes into a 6'1, 215 pound black guy who was a ball hawk capable of disrupting the very routes he used to run. He couldn't believe the audacity of that bitch witch to do him such a gigantic favor and then also curse him when he tried to leave without making proper sacrifice. Now when he plays games he still gets his hands on passes, and even gets lucky and catches one from time-to-time, but on the whole pass after pass just bounce off of his hands. It takes him 15 minutes just to close his hands into fists, so he has to run with them unclenched the entire time he's on the field.

[White Cornerback]

Written: Must include 200 words. A lot of people have changes they'd make to their game if they could. What is something you would change about your player if you could change anything

Really Lavelle kind of wishes he returned kicks and punt returns for Yellowknife from S1 as opposed to beginning in S3/S4 like he did. While Lavelle should probably still finish top of kick return yards and tds and punt return yards and touchdowns due to the sheer longevity of his career, he does wish he could've returned kicks early in his career to put a real claim towards these records.

Lavelle also wishes he didn't create until S6 so he could've taken advantage of the early CB buffs and the EXP buffs to make corner backs tolerable.

Lavelle wishes he spent his early career just boosting his speed to 100 before focusing on any other stats at all.

Lavelle wishes he could be able to ring a win and not choke in the playoffs.

Lavelle also hopes his scumbag GM @Bzerkap doesn't try and snake him out of future contracts with mutual options instead of player options.

Lavelle wishes that he could actually sack a quarterback in his entire career, something he has not managed to up until this point.

Lavelle hopes that he can replicate last seasons form for the rest of his career as inches closer to 50 career interceptions, 19 shy of it as he enters the 8th season of his career.

[Raven]

Written: Must include 200 words. A lot of people have changes they'd make to their game if they could. What is something you would change about your player if you could change anything.

So as the leagues number one complainer about their own stats I could easily come up with a million things I would like to change. The first being ofcourse taking out about 500 TPE from Turk and just banking it. That way the sim will actually recognise me as a functioning good kicker and I might kick some proper good seasons. I would keep the banked TPE against regression and that kind of bullshit.

Also a part of be regrets changing to the accurate archetype back when the league finally allowed players to change archetype after their first 3 seasons. I feel like I should have gone balanced and would have had a better time with the player then. Then again the sim hates me and would fuck with me regardless. Even as a balanced kicker I would have too much TPE to be any good.

It would be with these kinds of changes that I could kick 100% / 100% perfect seasons, which I sadly cannot do at my current stage of player. Whoever on the bright side regression will keep coming up on me now and taking away TPE so in a season or 4 I should be able to kick my first perfect season.

[Bwestfield]

What I would change about my game? What wouldn’t I change about my game?! From my head to my toes and from finger to finger. I would change a ton. I am not fast enough, that’s for sure. I could definitely use more speed. I mean I can work day and night but I won’t get any faster. That is just the cold hard facts and there is no changing it. I am a strong man for my position but I want to be stronger. I want to be the best there ever was but I know that my records are temporary. Who knows where I will be when I finally retire. Maybe I will make a comeback one day as an old man. Maybe just play the slot so I wouldn’t have to run as much. Who knows? But one thing I can tell you is I wish that I had the ability to catch better. That is one thing that I am still working on and it is one of the most important things to me. When I drop a ball I take it personally. I don’t care if it was a bad throw or not, if that ball comes close to or touches my hands in any way, I should be bringing it down.

[Bzerkap]

Written: Must include 200 words. A lot of people have changes they'd make to their game if they could. What is something you would change about your player if you could change anything

Really Lavelle kind of wishes he returned kicks and punt returns for Yellowknife from S1 as opposed to beginning in S3/S4 like he did. While Lavelle should probably still finish top of kick return yards and tds and punt return yards and touchdowns due to the sheer longevity of his career, he does wish he could've returned kicks early in his career to put a real claim towards these records.

Lavelle also wishes he didn't create until S6 so he could've taken advantage of the early CB buffs and the EXP buffs to make corner backs tolerable.

Lavelle wishes he spent his early career just boosting his speed to 100 before focusing on any other stats at all.

Lavelle wishes he could be able to ring a win and not choke in the playoffs.

Lavelle also hopes his scumbag GM @Bzerkap doesn't try and snake him out of future contracts with mutual options instead of player options.

Lavelle wishes that he could actually sack a quarterback in his entire career, something he has not managed to up until this point.

Lavelle hopes that he can replicate last seasons form for the rest of his career as inches closer to 50 career interceptions, 19 shy of it as he enters the 8th season of his career.

bzerkap wishes Dermot would stop getting political and shut up and play ball

[ExemplaryChad]

If I could change anything about my game, I would make myself bigger and stronger so I could get to the quarterback more often. My current position as a coverage linebacker presents plenty of opportunities to make a difference on the field. I try my best to be a field general from whatever position I play. My intelligence is something that I pride myself on. I spend more time in the film room than anybody else on the team, except for the quarterbacks. But still, I’m not a complete player.

You see guys out there like Winchester and Sharpei; those guys make opposing quarterbacks scared for their lives. I make them scared to throw the ball in my direction, sure. They see me lurking back there and they’ll think twice about throwing it across the middle of the field. But they know I’m only going to get to put my hands on them a few times a season. I’ve always been a little undersized for my position, and that means I can sometimes get bullied around by linemen. I think I’ve packed as much strength and muscle onto my frame as I can manage. I’m happy with my game, but if I could change this one aspect, I would be a complete prototype of a hard-working linebacker.

Haruki Ishigawa

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[daBenchwarmer]

I haven't really been with Andreas Metaxas for a while, so I decided to revisit my previous player Ethan Hunt/Gosh Jarden, and do a "what if" on whether if he had been better (hopefully this is allowed since I have next to zero material on Metaxas right now).

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What if Ethan Hunt had been better?

Both in terms of TPE, performance and activity. I'm not going to pull any punches here and say that I have no one to blame but myself for Hunt's sharp decline and change from the QB position to the WR position. But even as a QB, Hunt, despite his low ass TPE, was still a pretty serviceable QB (don't be open about this, it completely goes against what everyone thought about him) and could still get the job done, albeit at a higher risk of interceptions and failed passes. However, the fact Hunt was able to keep up with the rest of the league's top quarterbacks while being a solid 100-150+ TPE behind was a huge indicator that he could be one of, if not the, best quarterback in the league if he more TPE invested in his development. Was he a bust? I personally don't think so, but he definitely undershot what he could have become in the NSFL.

I think a huge reason on why Hunt never became that bonafide stud that I had hyped him up to be was due to a couple of (mainly personal) reasons (and please note, these aren't me trying to make up excuses for this, but simply explaining my position at the time):

• My activity got murked by multiple sim leagues (SHL, GOMHL, PBE and the NSFL), plus I had the onset of university coming in and multiple social demands. I decided that my activity could take a hit since my academic grades are worth way more to me than the opinion of a couple of guys on a football sim league.

• I got burnt pretty quickly thanks to the whole situation with Orange County, and a fairly unwelcoming locker room in San Jose. I don't mean to insult anyone, but I didn't enjoy being sat, played, sat, and then played in Orange County (*EDIT: I just remembered wasn't even in rotation, making it even worse) and felt like I was being the scapegoat for everyone in San Jose despite me trying to invest what I could into the team (not only that but the fact that San Jose straight up told me I wasn't supposed to be in their future plans and then RFA tagged me anyways to prevent me from finding another spot in the league; that was super shady yo).

• I honestly just lost the "drive" and fun I had in the league, and as you can see, it took me a while to get it back. Additionally, I had some pretty bad mental health moments both during my time in the league and after, and felt that it didn't make sense for me to stress out over a sim league (which since I'm typing this out, sounds pretty dumb).

• Fell behind the TPE drive way too quickly and never really had a solid chance to recover. Just looking at some of the current and former top quarterbacks right now, Boss, Akelsen, and Orosz to name a few, they're all fairly high in terms of TPE. This sorta ties into my activity problems, but these guys were consistently gaining TPE at a steady pace that I had no chance in catching up with.

Anyways, this is just something I wanted to get off my chest. This PT just gave me the chance to talk about what I think went wrong.

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