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Drury18 · 11-27-2015, 12:07 PM

If I can provide some feedback, I've mentioned the league to several people and keep getting the same responses back:

The Commissioners appear to have the best teams in the league and wailing on the other teams. Is the league even fair?
There is a huge gap between "good teams" and "bad teams". How does the league keep things fair so everyone has a chance?
I don't want to get stuck with a team that doesn't have any assets on it and I lose for 2 years before maybe getting anywhere.
Seems like a lot of dictating of what you can and can't do and not really for fun.

In all honesty, we've had those same comments brought up by our own GM's as well and why a few have quit. Some of these have corrective actions that maybe with a few changes we get a little more stability and attractiveness to join the league.

I don't know if it's happened before, but have you ever reset all the teams and held a draft and started fresh? I think with the amount of turnover with GM's we've had lately and even prior, you have guys who don't care and sell off the team leaving a really poor starting base for any new player. Very few people are going to want to take over a team that requires INTENSIVE work on it (me being one of of those few that would). Is it fair to guys who have built they're team? No. But then again, it also keeps those GM's having to work to keep success rather then just sitting back and only making a move or two a year because they don't want to move pieces. We would create FAR more activity if we all had to start fresh and then trade our asses off to get what we want.

The other thing is that we have in this league some pretty talented guys (JonDuke, PMM and HannaSniper) in various forms of media/graphics. And we have guys like Dammage and Simmer who create some really creative "fake" Twitter posts and obviously trying to help get the posting up. Can we utilize these GM's more so that people are more intrigued to participate. Right now are boards are 90% game results and 10% rules and trade posts that aren't getting many comments anymore. What can we do so that we create more participation? What appeals to the current GM's to get more activity? What happened to the things like Player of the Week? Is there other things we can introduce similar to that to encourage less vanilla posts on our forum and more interesting ones?

I mean that's just my feedback on this. This is what I'm seeing from both trying to talk people into the league as well as why I haven't been posting as much (along with work getting in the way). The league is becoming mundane.

11-27-2015, 12:07 PM	#2
Drury18 Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2003 Exp:	If I can provide some feedback, I've mentioned the league to several people and keep getting the same responses back: The Commissioners appear to have the best teams in the league and wailing on the other teams. Is the league even fair? There is a huge gap between "good teams" and "bad teams". How does the league keep things fair so everyone has a chance? I don't want to get stuck with a team that doesn't have any assets on it and I lose for 2 years before maybe getting anywhere. Seems like a lot of dictating of what you can and can't do and not really for fun. In all honesty, we've had those same comments brought up by our own GM's as well and why a few have quit. Some of these have corrective actions that maybe with a few changes we get a little more stability and attractiveness to join the league. I don't know if it's happened before, but have you ever reset all the teams and held a draft and started fresh? I think with the amount of turnover with GM's we've had lately and even prior, you have guys who don't care and sell off the team leaving a really poor starting base for any new player. Very few people are going to want to take over a team that requires INTENSIVE work on it (me being one of of those few that would). Is it fair to guys who have built they're team? No. But then again, it also keeps those GM's having to work to keep success rather then just sitting back and only making a move or two a year because they don't want to move pieces. We would create FAR more activity if we all had to start fresh and then trade our asses off to get what we want. The other thing is that we have in this league some pretty talented guys (JonDuke, PMM and HannaSniper) in various forms of media/graphics. And we have guys like Dammage and Simmer who create some really creative "fake" Twitter posts and obviously trying to help get the posting up. Can we utilize these GM's more so that people are more intrigued to participate. Right now are boards are 90% game results and 10% rules and trade posts that aren't getting many comments anymore. What can we do so that we create more participation? What appeals to the current GM's to get more activity? What happened to the things like Player of the Week? Is there other things we can introduce similar to that to encourage less vanilla posts on our forum and more interesting ones? I mean that's just my feedback on this. This is what I'm seeing from both trying to talk people into the league as well as why I haven't been posting as much (along with work getting in the way). The league is becoming mundane.