Folks,
We want to try a different approach to how we approve deals from new GMs.
This has been something we have been noodling on for a while, in part to take the decision making out of the commissioners alone – and into the hands of the league overall. We hope this drives collective ownership from everyone to make more fair deals with new GMs.
I want to stress, we are going to try this out. We aren’t committed to making this our permanent process.
So basically when a new GM makes a deal, until they are through their probation period (which remains the discretion of the league), the deal will be posted on the forum for league-wide review.
GMs will vote on whether the deal is “fair” or not.
In order for a deal to be approved
- 50% of the league GMs must have voted (but hopefully we get closer to 100%)
- 51% or more must say that it is “fair”
- The GMs involved cannot vote
- The commissioners will vote, but their vote will count for 1, as will everyone elses
- Votes will be transparent – you will be able to see who voted for what
GMs can post their reasoning in the thread as to why they voted, but this isn’t mandatory.
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At minimum an interesting method that will generate discussion and activity on the board. At best, a more transparent league with less burden on the commishes.
As long as new GMs dont get crucified for accepting something they perhaps should not have, I think it could actually help in the learning curve with different asset values.
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As long as new GMs dont get crucified for accepting something they perhaps should not have, I think it could actually help in the learning curve assets value.
That's my thought too.
More discussion about trades and value - should help them learn how the broader league feels about assets.
In my experience, some new GMs get very defensive about trades getting rejected - instead of just accepting that this league has a learning curve (like most things).
The ones that accept that and embrace it - typically turn into great GMs.
The ones that think they know everything and don't accept feedback - flames out pretty quick.
Having the group change trade by trade would introduce an even higher level of inconsistency to the process.
Why not make it public?
Grudges, "I would have offered more" drive by posters, "I didn't read the trade" votes, public shaming
Then change it to be a trade council of interested GMs. Have 2 commissioners + a small subset of active, knowledgeable GMs that are interested in helping new players out. If you wanted 4 votes per trade, have 3 GMs that rotate in and out - that way if one of the GMs was involved in the deal you still have 2 on deck to vote.
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i think it also provides an interesting opportunity for the trading parties to comment on their motive - be that team direction, prospect value etc. trade value vs. does this make sense can be 2 different things.
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Grudges, "I would have offered more" drive by posters, "I didn't read the trade" votes, public shaming
Then change it to be a trade council of interested GMs. Have 2 commissioners + a small subset of active, knowledgeable GMs that are interested in helping new players out. If you wanted 4 votes per trade, have 3 GMs that rotate in and out - that way if one of the GMs was involved in the deal you still have 2 on deck to vote.
I don't see how that changes things much from what we have now - it is just a different group of people. Right now we have 4 people voting on this - they just happen to be commissioners.
We are looking to do something that makes the league feel like they have a say in these decisions - spreading the responsibility across far more people to reduce the impact of individual subjectivity.
If there is any public shaming, we will deal with those cases on an individual basis. Our expectation is that all this be done in a respectful way.
Our expectation is that all this be done in a respectful way.
I think that if we sampled the "newbie GM trade" threads from the last couple of seasons we would see that the success rate for this is not very good.
I'm for trying it, I'm just skeptical.
Whatever we do, don't make it a poll. You can't change your votes in a poll, and I imagine that there will be debate with the intention of swaying votes.
I have no strong feeling anyway, I have no issues with the current way but understand that it's difficult to be the bad guy in veto duch deals. Anything is worth a try
As for dsavillian concern about changing votes, the trade can be posted without a poll and added a day later, if there's discussion by that time and change of thoughts on the deal would have been nudged enough that if you're still thinking about it you wouldn't finalize your decision yet.
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Generally participation has been good. I've ended some early as they have been slam dunks, but those that have run for 1-2 days are getting pretty high participation.
I like it a lot. I think have the league involved in these decisions has been good. And I think it is causing Gms to think carefully about if their deals are fair.
The one aspect I'm not sure about is if 66% as an acceptance bar is too high. Hasn't really come up yet, but for close deals should we lean to rejection or acceptance.
I honestly think 66% is high. IMO at 50/50 it should still be accepted so I would prefer leaning towards acceptance rather than rejection. If anything is really bad it will lose by a slam dunk anyways.
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