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The Sim League Fantasy League - Draft and Week 1
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I have often had bizarre and big projects and this one is no different. Many people have often joked about sim leagues in other sillier sports or even sim leagues for things that weren't even sports. Food truck sim league is one I remember vividly. Whenever these conversations come up, I joked about a sim league sim league. The idea in my head ended up going deeper and eventually I started to consider if I could actually pull it off. What came from this idea is a project that sort of changed perspective a bit and in the end, I think it is more fitting to call it a sim league fantasy league.

What does a sim league fantasy league mean? You might think of the fantasy leagues that these leagues, like this one, do every season but the idea is a bit different. Instead of drafting players, you draft sim league users. Instead of their sim performance, the performance that matters is their activity, is their TPE. The points you get are the TPE your users earn every week.

I really loved this idea and I always thought that for some of the most insane users (you know who you are) this could be a really fun activity and make for a really meta experience. I debated this for a long time, but eventually I thought what the heck, I will just try a trial version and see if I find anyone interested and see if I find people who want to do this and want to try.

So with that in mind, I first had to decide on some rules. First off, the trial period will go over a 4 week period, though it is possible that it will be extended if things go well. In the trial period, only who you draft counts. For an actual long term version I imagine there will be trades, waiver system, etc, but that didn't seem important for a 4 week trial period. I also decided on a roster size and rules:

The leagues that will count are PBE, NSFL and SHL, because I believe there is the biggest overlap in those leagues between users and also it's the three leagues I am personally in, so you know, bias. It's also easier to find weekly updates here, at least for me. The roster would include three users that would give you points in all three leagues. So if you picked myself for that roster spot, then you would gain points for every TPE I updated in PBE, NSFL and SHL for those four weeks. After that, we have two spots of 2-league guys, where you have to pick which two leagues you want to get points for (many users are only in two leagues, so it works perfectly). And then lastly one spot for a specialist, a guy who is only in one league.

Obviously with leagues being in the off-season some of that ends up with huge starting updates, which we definitely looked at before drafting (or at least those of us who actually did research). I will also say that you should take some of these early standings with a grain of salt, as there were at least one team in the NSFL which didn't get updated at all in this week, so there are some users that earned a 0 despite having a big update.

All that settled, i set out to find interested parties. I will admit, I messed up a little and kicked out BWIII because i thought he was no longer interested but apparently he was. Sorry again for that. We also had to let someone else go for lack of time. When all was said and done, we had 11 users that decided to give this a try. We did the draft order mostly randomly and it was as follows:

caltroit_red_flames
AW13
The Scorpions King (Mavfatha)
SDCore
juosu
beaver
iamslm22
soryantyler
ckroyal
Trautner
majesiu

Certainly an illustrious group of sim league users already. I will also say that the first day or two of this project were some of the funniest days I have had in sim leagues. I was basically constantly laughing at the ridiculousness of this project and some of the discussions on discord. Discussions about whether you should pick yourself. Discussions about whether you should pick others in the group. One user threatened to just not update if someone else drafted him. One user also said he would have to suddenly be active for 4 weeks in one league he was inactive in. Lots of hilarious ridiculousness. When the draft started, one person asked whether anyone was actually doing research for this, to which about 5 or 6 people replied that they had already started looking at updates and making a draft board lol

So then it was finally time to start the draft.

With the first pick, caltroit went with the expected strategy of many and picked himself. AW13 with the second pick already caused a huge shock and surprise, by picking someone that I personally also had very high on my board and picked Jiggly! The next three (Mav, SD and me) all picked their own user. Then we had another first. Beaver picked someone else from the group in majesiu! Slm followed by doing another first. He picked himself, but for a 2 league spot. Soryan picked Stamkosfan, ckroyal picked Trautner, Trautner picked JKortesi81 and majesiu finished the first round by picking KC15.

Here is the entire draft order:

caltroit caltroit FLEX
AW13 jiggly FLEX
The Scorpions King mavfatha FLEX
SDCore sdcore FLEX
juosu juosu FLEX
beaver majesiu FLEX
slm slm 2L
soryantyler stamkosfan FLEX
ckroyal trautner FLEX
Trautner kortesi FLEX
majesiu KC15 FLEX
majesiu TheDangaZone FLEX
Trautner slothfacekilla FLEX
ckroyal Leafs4ever FLEX
soryantyler C9Van FLEX
slm Cpetrella FLEX
beaver AW13 FLEX
juosu Nictox 2L
SDCore timeconsumer 2L
The Scorpions King MrStennett FLEX
aw13 KillaScrilla FLEX
caltroit Beaver FLEX
caltroit Blastmeaway 2L
AW13 Ckroyal92 2L
The Scorpions King Libertines FLEX
SDCore Symmetrik FLEX
juosu Toivo (Kahn) FLEX
beaver karl/karlssens 2L
slm Psanchez FLEX
soryantyler Fordhammer 2L
ckroyal Zeddez FLEX
Trautner Moosecop FLEX
majesiu Unicorn 2L
majesiu pazuzu FLEX
Trautner jonny2x 2L
ckroyal Nokazoa 2L
soryantyler Snussu FLEX
slm dieselj FLEX
beaver Tomen 2L
juosu Tate 2L
SDCore bauer/baueranthony FLEX
The Scorpions King manicmav36 2L
aw13 AlexF FLEX
caltroit DrunkenTeddy Specialist
caltroit Evok FLEX
AW13 Jdre17 Specialist
The Scorpions King VRTX L4S3R 2L
SDCore hotdog 2L
juosu thiefofcheese FLEX
beaver tomaszn FLEX
slm shutdown 2L
soryantyler dylanjj37 2L
ckroyal TheWoZy 2L
Trautner flyeaglesfly 2L
majesiu moonlight 2L
majesiu Legally_Blind_Gamer Specialist
Trautner BigRed Specialist
ckroyal AdamD021 Specialist
soryantyler Jsteele14 Specialist
slm LGMForever Specialist
beaver White Cornerback Specialist
juosu Isa Starcrossed Specialist
SDCore Steelhead77 Specialist
The Scorpions King 5ympathies Specialist
aw13 Frick_Nasty 2L
caltroit FinnRhys 2L


And there was the conclusion! With that said, we also already have the results of the first week on the books. Like I said before, there is definitely a big need to wait for the end, I think as certain users were not updated or whatnot. It was interesting to see how everyone did.

After the first week, here are the standings:

The Scorpions King 514
juosu 486
Trautner 482
majesiu 425
caltroit 340
SDCore 334
beaver 323
ckroyal 288
soryantyler 283
slm 277
AW13 267

Mav ends up in the lead after week 1, with an incredibly solid team, where only one player had a single 0 on the board (he himself in the SHL). Everyone else did really well, including a 113 from Libertines and a 98 from VRTX in just two leagues. He also got 73 from 5ympathies in just one league (SHL).

I landed in 2nd place, despite having two NSFL players go un-updated in myself and Isa, which should give me a nice boost in the second week. I got a lot of my points in the SHL, where I had Toivo (89), thiefofcheese (84), Nictox (67), myself (44) and Tate (40). Toivo was actually the third best player in general this week, scoring a 125 overall. Nictox did exceptionally well as well, by getting a 115 in just two leagues.

Trautner also very much still in reach of the lead in third place and he also still has a 0 from the unupdated NSFL team in there. He got a 119 from JKortesi81 and solid numbers from everyone else.

Among players, the best player was moonlight, who got a shocking 129 TPE in just two leagues (70 in PBE and 59 in NSFL). KC15 was second place with 125 TPE. Oddly, both of those are on the same team here (majesiu's) but he still only ended in fourth place. He does have one more NSFL player unupdated as well, and had another 0 and a 4 in there to cause him to not have the lead.

While the gap already looks big, I think some of the top guys certainly chose a strategy to pick guys who had a big week 1 update, which could hurt future weeks. We also have a situation where slm has himself and he didn't update at all this week, which could lead to huge updates whenever he decides to. Same goes for AlexF, who I know has an update of over 130 TPE coming in NSFL and likely other leagues too. Several guys in general gave 0s all across the board and could influence later weeks by updating bigger.

It will be interesting to see how this trial continues and ends and I will be sure to update later on as well. For more information or such, feel free to pm me on discord or comment here.

Fyi: I will also post this in other leagues, but am posting it in SHL first, as it is the league where I need money most. Lol.

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(This post was last modified: 11-29-2019, 12:25 PM by Inf1d3l.)

Wanna see the sheets on who picked who from what league! Make it happen!

Also what's the scoring structure? Is it just TPE or is it based on just posts too?









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how the FLIP did i go undrafted
@caltroit_red_flames im disappointed in u

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11-29-2019, 11:56 AMbluesfan55 Wrote: how the FLIP did i go undrafted
@caltroit_red_flames im disappointed in u

tbh I wasn't trying super hard to win sorry bloos

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11-29-2019, 11:57 AMcaltroit_red_flames Wrote:
11-29-2019, 11:56 AMbluesfan55 Wrote: how the FLIP did i go undrafted
@caltroit_red_flames im disappointed in u

tbh I wasn't trying super hard to win sorry bloos
I was gonna say you were my new best friend but now i feel insulted too

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