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| Newsletter #18 |
3:20 PM ET on 1/6/12 by Jay Soester |
Newsletter #18 is now available. It covers the five games available, the coming Keeper Leagues Fantasy Baseball season, what's in the works and a website milestone.
Please use this thread or email me with any questions about the newsletter.
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| Ten Years |
11:59 PM ET on 1/2/12 by Jay Soester |
What were you doing ten years ago today? Turning 22? How bout 14? It was a Wednesday. AIM was still socially relevant, if not in its heyday. Facebook didn't come into existence until around 2 years later. MySpace didn't even exist. Were you watching Bill Guerin score a hat trick in a 6-3 Bruins defeat of the Hurricanes? Or watching Steve Spurrier's last game as Florida's head coach, a 56-23 Orange Bowl win over ACC champion Maryland with big games from Rex Grossman, Earnest Graham, Jabar Gaffney, Brock Berlin and Taylor Jacobs. Were you still in college?, watching your team beat Morris Brown 85-38 on the day your mom went back to prison? Or were you just being appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly?
Ten years ago Monday, I was a sophomore in high school plotting out the beginnings of a sim league. Tim had introduced me to sim leagues a few months before and I decided that it was the next step in my progression after 2+ years of running themed fantasy leagues. The American Simulation Football League soon had 12 teams with 12 coaches and plans to add the ability to create your own player and hire an assistant coach. After an admittedly disappointing first season, I went about adding to the member pool and decided to teach myself HTML over Spring Break to improve the free website of the time. Shortly thereafter it was decided to switch from running the league with a program whose name I no longer remember, to Madden 2002 (of which I still own two copies). After around a year and a half, and a few hundred emails, a sponsor was finally found to foot the $150 needed to purchase the domain (and hosting) that is still in use. If not for the original ASFL, this league might not exist, or at least the very least, would go by another name. I had to end the league's run on August 27th, 2004 with my first week of college. It took a considerable amount of work to run as it required roughly an hour per game, something impossible without two computers, plus all the time to manually calculate stats and create players. After my freshman year of college, I went about creating the ABL using OOTP which alleviated some of the time commitment from the original ASFL.
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