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The author explores the idea of the best color in the ISFL and its impact on team and individual success. They assign teams to primary and secondary colors and analyze their championship wins and appearances, as well as individual awards and Hall of Fame inductions. Red and blue teams have the most success, while purple and yellow teams struggle. The author also suggests that favorite colors may influence voting for awards. However, they acknowledge that color may not actually matter in the end. What color is the best? By user RoastFuego. Everyone looks at the sim to find a way to better situate themselves for team success. Whether that was the illustrious 79 speed QB glitch, or discovering certain builds being more broken than the code of the game, to even discovering which formations are better than others, but nobody has looked at the actual dots on the fields themselves. Yes, we are all a bunch of coded stats and ones and zeros, as well as attributes, but when you watch the games on the streams, you do not see that, but instead a number and a color. In this first part of a possible two part series, we will be examining the best color to ever grace the ISFL halls, whilst also looking to see which on the color scale can lead to both team success and individual success. We will be listing these off of the very basic primary and secondary color scales. Yellow, red, and blue is primary, and orange, purple, and green is secondary. To begin, I must assign all teams to a specific color. They are as follows. The primaries. Yellow. Baltimore Hawks. Red. The Colorado Yeti. The Berlin Fire Salamanders. The Chicago Butchers. And the Arizona Outlaws. Blue. The Yellowknife Race. The Sarasota Sailfish. And the Honolulu Hallelua. Secondary colors. Orange. The Orange City Otters. Purple. The New Orleans Second Line. And the Cape Town Crush. And green. The Austin Copperheads. The San Jose Sabercats. And the New York Silverbacks. I based all the teams off the color of their home kits. I understand that Yellowknife is a black dot, but seeing as that is not a primary or secondary color, I decided to group them in team blue, as the numbers on the players are in fact blue. At first glance, it seems we have way too many red teams, and a very little abundance of bright colors in orange and yellow. Now let's look at how this affects team success and individual success. So we're going to start with championships, that's team success. Team success is best measured by, of course, winning a championship, and having your banner and a parade hosted in your home city. Based off of colors alone, and winning a championship, the rankings are as followed. No, there is one missing Ultimis, and the Philadelphia Liberty did win an early championship, but I've rebranded to the Cape Town Crush, switching from team blue to team purple. I did not know where to include the Liberty, so they have been excluded from all calculations. The Hawks, with four. From a very easy standpoint, the colors that have more teams, have more championships. Wow, who would have guessed? As a bonus fact, green was the last color to win an Ultimis, which was finally won in Ultimis XIV. Now some may also see making it to the championship as a form of team success as well in a season. After all, you do have to represent your conference, which makes you better than half the league. So here is how many of each team have been a part of the finals. Once again, if a team no longer exists, call for the Philadelphia Liberty. Their appearance has been omitted, as you cannot play for that color anymore, currently. Blue has 24 appearances, with an 11-13 record. Red has 23 appearances, with an 11-12 record. Yellow has 11 appearances, with a 4-7 record. Green has 11 appearances, with a 7-4 record. Orange has 11 appearances, with an 8-3 record. And purple has 9 appearances, with a 4-5 record. Once again, blue and red come in at the top, but the best record belongs to OCO, representing the orange gang. The red team is both heavily affected by the Outlaws' 9 wins with only 3 losses, but also held back by Berlin's 4 championship losses. Seems that if you want to make it to a championship, hope that you're selected by a blue or red team, which is of course 50% of the league. But, if you want to win a championship, try to get drafted by a green or orange team, which is roughly 29% of the league. Now we're going to look into individual success. Some players create their players not caring about team success, and instead choose individual rewards and statistics. To best see these winners, let's look at Most Valuable Players, MVPs, Offensive Player of the Year, and Defensive Player of the Year awards, based by colors once again. Liberty, MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, and Defensive Player of the Year once again do not count. Red, 13, Blue, 12, Orange, 8, Yellow, 6, Purple, 5, and Green, 2. Once again, Red and Blue are at the top, but Red has had a very big recent run with the current success of the Arizona Outlaws. If you want to win Most Valuable Player, do not go to a green team. Only two have been selected in league history, ever, and one of those is the current reigning MVP, so before this season, it was only one. Offensive Player of the Year. Blue, 14, Red, 7, Green, 7, Orange, 7, Purple, 5, and Yellow, 4. This time, there's a clear favorite, with Blue having twice as many of the next highest color with 14 winners. Purple is again bottom two with Yellow being the least likely to have an Offensive Player of the Year. Defensive Player of the Year. Red, 22, Blue, 10, Green, 6, Orange, 3, Yellow, 3, Purple, 2. Once again, we have a clear winner with Red team, who has won the last seven straight Defensive Player of the Year awards. Once again, Purple and Yellow make up the bottom two teams for these awards. This means, for total awards amongst these three categories, it stacks up as Red, 42 total awards, Blue, 36 total awards, Orange, 18 total awards, Green, 15 total awards, Yellow, 13 total awards, and Purple, 12 total awards. Overall, the best teams to go to, once again, is the Red and Blue teams throughout the league. However, even though the Green team had only two MVPs, they didn't end as the worst team to go for overall awards, as that belongs to the Purple and Yellow teams. One final metric to check for individual success is going to be Hall of Famers on a team. Hall of Fame. The best way to see yourself as a fulfilled career is to make it in the ISFL Hall of Fame. This is the best way to easily see that you succeeded as a player on the field, and the story of the ISFL cannot be told without you being a part of it. For Hall of Famers, the colors come out too. Note that one player can count for multiple colors of teams. If they played there, then they count as one of their Hall of Famers on the wiki, and that's good enough for me. Hall of Famers. Red, 57. Blue, 38. Orange, 27. Yellow, 26. Green, 24. And Purple, 21. Overall, playing on a Red team leads to the highest chance of you being selected as a Hall of Famer, whereas playing for a Purple team gives you an uphill climb at a chance for the Hall of Fame. Now, as the Cape Town Crash begin to retire more members, I do believe the number of Purple Dots in the Hall of Fame will only continue to grow. In conclusion. So based on the numbers, it seems like the best bet is to play for a member of a Red team, while also making a pit stop for an Orange team along the way for success in the Ultimis. It does seem like brighter colors have a bit more success when it comes to a Dot. Some of these numbers are inflated by the number of teams under them, Red having four, whether that's having four teams for Red, or only one team for Yellow and Orange, as well as some colors having some teams in their infancy. Cape Town and any of the expansion teams for Green team. And who knows, maybe this is all a psychological thing, where people see their favorite color and are more likely to vote for an award based on the color of the Dot, since it's their favorite. Or the idea that Blue puts more people at ease, so it's a nicer color. Or Red is seen as more aggressive, which is why it leads to more defensive player of the years on those teams. Or maybe it does not matter at all at the end of the day. But hey, that's just a theory. A color theory. Thanks for reading.