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Quote:13. (+3 TPE) Parody (150 words min.)
There has been some discussion on the forums but its always good to hear more opinions: Parity. Going back 6 seasons including this one there have been 4 teams in the finals: Buffalo, Chicago, Hamilton, and Texas. If you add New Orleans you can go back 8 seasons. 5 different teams for 8 straight finals. Is this an issue? Does it need to be fixed? Can it even be fixed? I'm interested to hear opinions, approaches, or just doom and gloom on whether you think this will change, or if we will still be talking about the same teams making the finals over and over in 5 seasons.

I can't say this is unexpected at all with the extended nature of player careers, no compensatory draft selections to punish those that build through FA, and a high enough cap (or cap bail out trades) to keep super teams alive. I won't lie, I don't follow this league close enough to know for sure, but these principles tend to lead to stagnant leagues in general and so it is a pretty simple conclusion to reach. That said, perhaps these things are being addressed and we're still seeing this lack of a shuffle in the finals. I'm not really sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing as it has happened in the real world a few times before as well in multiple sports. Sometimes there are just extremely good teams that last a long time. Theoretically those teams get broken up by players wanting higher salaries since they have earned them through their play, but unfortunately that is not the case with a fake league where contract money really only goes to your own player development.

Quote:14. (+3 TPE) Upswing (150 words min.)
What team on the outside looking in do you believe will be the next to break into the playoffs? What team will be the next new team to break into the finals (other than the core 4 listed in the above task)? Who seems to be building and earning at a rate that they will be a scary team in the future? We have already seen some successful rebuilds in Texas, Toronto, and Tampa, and some unsuccessful ones as well. Who is on the right track?

The next big contender is going to be the New Orleans Specters. Through some of the best drafting the league has seen, and a few key trades, the Specters have quietly built a young and scary looking team anchored by a couple of veterans who are easily able to fight regression to keep the window alive. With a very young team, they have already shattered expectations this past season by breezing past their casino line with utter ease. Look forward to the improvement out of this young NOLA team as they will be slowly climbing their way into the top of the league and will likely stay there for some time. It will likely be a few seasons yet until they are true contenders, but they should be breaking into the playoffs in the next season or two. Once they have completed that feat, though, they will soon become clear favorites to make the finals on a regular basis for seasons to come.

Quote:19. (+3 TPE) Pills 150 words min
Love it or hate it, that Pill PT (PT 2) was wild and may I say, genius. You've partnered up with the weird trench coat pill guy to design your own pills, with powers and drawbacks to sell to your fellow SHLers! How do you go about this, do you make really good pills to help your team? Trick Hamilton into taking some really shitty pills with the promise of incredible powers? Or do what I did and make a bunch of insane pills and watch the league go absolutely crazy trying to make sense of what the fuck I'm even talking about? Or just make a bunch of jelly beans?

Honestly, I'm not the most creative person around and if weird trench coat man already has a set up to create jelly beans, I might just go crazy and start competing with Jelly Belly to see if we can beat them on flavor count. Flavors are easier than powers and drawbacks, I think. You can literally just pick something up, taste it, and make a flavor of that thing. I doubt that Jelly Belly has a drywall flavor. Take that Jelly Belly. The real trick would be matching the chalkiness of drywall in a jelly bean type of product. Other flavors can be more fun and tasty like outer space. We can crowd fund a fearless adventurer (or maybe a few, because let's face it, it's a dangerous task) to see what outer space tastes like. If we can cram that taste of space radiation into a jelly bean, I know for sure that we would teach Jelly Belly the most important lesson of all: they can't beat our beans.