One thing that I think we can all agree on is that the off-season is too long. Just about none of us play the game to sit through endless rounds of amateur drafts, coaching offers and free-agent signings.
So, how can we speed up the off-season. I'm open to just about any and all suggestions. I'd like to have some ideas in place and voted on before we get to the off-season.
Zev
Well, the obvious one is to conduct free agency and the amateur draft concurrently.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise conduct activities each night. Say like this:
Day 1: Coaches Day one
Day 2: Coaches Day 2-3
Day 3: Coaches Day 4-5
Then a Free Agency/Amateur Draft each weeknight? With increasing increments?
Day 1: Day 1-3/Round 1
Day 2: Days 4-6/Round 2
Day 3: Days 7-10/Round 3
Day 4: Days 11-15/Round 4
Day 5: Days 16-20/Round 5
Day 6: Days 21-25/Rounds 6-11 (by machine)
Day 7: Days 26-30
Then we're at Spring Training and bam! New season in two weeks!
Can you tell I think too much about these sorts of things?
I agree with doing multiple free agent days at once. I'd cut it down to 5 days. Something like this:
ReplyDeleteDay 1: Days 1-3
Day 2: Days 4-6
Day 3: Days 8-15
Day 4: Days 16-22
Day 5: Days 23-30
I dunno about running the draft concurrently. I don't really have a problem with doing that, though.
I agree with running multiple days from coaches signing and free agency in a single sim. I don't have a strong opinion as to how to structure that.
ReplyDeleteI'm indifferent on whether the draft should be run contemporaneously with free agency or not, but it would help things speed up.
I leave it up to Zev as to how frequently he's comfortable running sims. Every day may be asking a lot of him, although having an assistant commissioner would obviously help with that.