I'm Just Doing This To Use My Doubles

[Kyle 667]

My First Draft as An Actual Decent Prospect In Awhile

 

Well, it appears that I am finally back as a member who can get a reasonable amount of TPE and manage not to flake out on his GMs. I have been extremely hot and cold as a member here through the years, either TPE whoring and extremely active or never logging in for months at a time. But when I do commit to a player, I can definitely tell the difference than when it feels like I'm recreating just to recreate. I've talked about this before but the portal really has become such a game changer for me personally, it makes it so much more immersive and easy to update our players. Although Clarke all things considered was a successful player because I had a good time with him and won a Continental Cup, I'd say player wise he was very average and wasn't doing anything special of note. 

 

For my new player Jonas Stormsson, I'm hoping he can contribute a bit more to his team rather than just being a depth player. Individual success is never my game plan with one of my players, the reason mostly being is I've only ever won 2 Continental Cups as an active; nether of them being with my best player Ansgar Snijider. So for me it's mostly always been about winning and trying to have the best time possible with a team. Stats are nice, but when you already have one Hall of Fame player you feel like you've already accomplished the main individual accolade. 

 

With Dean Clarke, I was drafted 51st overall with nearly no hope of me ending up being a decent player. So essentially I had little to no conversations with GMs leading up to it. I suppose I got lucky that @Victor took a chance on me because he recognized my name and I felt an obligation to help out an old friend in the league. But I'm thankful I did because it did reignite a fire in me to start enjoying the league again. So with Stormsson, I didn't particularly enjoy my VHLM season but to be honest I really never do. But being buried on the third line after about halfway through the season made me invest even less on the VHLM side of things, but I have still been looking forward to actually being an intriguing prospect that team's are interested in this time around.

 

Drafts have become so deep in the VHL that even over 200 TPE after this Media Spot, I probably won't be selected until 25th or later. That's absolutely insane to me and a real testament to the depth of the league and it's something that allows the draft to be a lot more unpredictable than it used to be in the past. I think that adds for a lot of excitement for not just the players but really tests the GMs and AGMs on their knowledge of the members and prospects that are in the draft. For the first time in a long time in this league I'm really excited to see what the draft holds for me and I look forward to seeing what organization I join, especially with the new expansion teams in the mix as well. I could easily be taken by a team that I've never played for as an active, and that's something I could have never pictured when the league was on it's last legs just a couple years ago. 

 

Cheers to all the S74 draftees, it's one of the most exciting times in your player's career. So enjoy the process.

 

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Edited September 8, 2020 by Kyle

[Baozi 1,664]

Hah welcome back. It is kind of crazy that 200 TPE doesn't get you even in the top 2 rounds anymore more or less. But that's just indicative of the strength of the community now and how large we are. Can't even slack off anymore, as my dreams of being undrafted are coming to fruition

 

Not much to say here, content is mainly your personal thoughts. Understanding it was mainly to collect your doubles week here as well. Formatting is alright, the pacing is a bit slow and well, just casual chatter for the most part. No pictures and well not much in terms of presentation either so pretty bare bones here to collect. But the good thing is you're here

 

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