Tuesday, June 24, 2008

New ideas for next season?

Zev and I had a brief chat today about making some changes to the league structure for next season, and he suggested I post my ideas to the group for discussion. There are no promises that anything will be adopted, but we'll see what happens.

Idea 1: Interleague play -- Despite all the trash talk, I'm personally not in much of a hurry to have the two leagues intermingle, but I know that some owners will want this.

Idea 2: More playoff teams -- This I'm very much in favor of doing. Either via splitting each league into two divisions, or adding a wild card spot for the 2nd place team in each league. While we probably don't have enough teams to have four divisions, I think I'd prefer to have four three-team divisions than have a wild card. (Call it the baseball purist in me.)

Idea 3: Re-alignment -- Perhaps do it geographically, or randomly, or via a pre-determined method (i.e., the 2nd, 4th, and last place teams in each league are swapped after this season). I just thought of this idea, and think it might be fun.

Idea 4: Salary cap -- Not the best idea, I know, but maybe we can self-impose a luxury tax (I'm not sure if this is possible in OOTP6.5, or even feasible). But, an equalization of the league finances wouldn't be a bad thing.

So, feel free to discuss, or offer any suggestions of your own. Let's make this the best league we can!

8 comments:

  1. 1. I am for interleague play just because we have such a small amount of teams. It would be nice to have a more variety of teams we play each year.

    2. I am for more playoff teams. Gives more teams more to play for in the season, rather than the season being basically over by the all-star break. I think the divisions should stay a 6 teams though.

    3. I am not for or against re-alignment, but if we do, I think it should be completely random.

    4. I am a capitalist, so I am against any idea of a cap.

    That is how I feel about the proposed changes. I believe change is good and would like to see some changes in the near future, if they make the game more enjoyable, and I think more playoff teams and interleague play would.

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  2. I would vote for 1 and 2. I'd prefer that we keep the existing 6-team divisions and add a wild card.

    3 seems like a logistical nightmare for Michael and Zev and is irrelevant if we have interleague play.

    I also like the current financial system with the $10M cash cap, so I'd vote against 4.

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  3. I like #1 and #2. Dislike realignment because it's just silly in a virtual world. And I don't like the SalCap at this point. The game enforces profitability somewhat fiercely as I discovered.

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  4. I'm also in favor of #1 and #2. No big preference for either of the two ways of getting more playoff teams.
    Indifferent on #3.
    #4 interests me a little bit, but certainly doesn't seem popular with anyone else, so I'm not going to push it.

    And can I ask - what's up with Hartford? No transactions at all this year, it seems we may be at risk of another Covington.... although that's one heck of a collection of young SPs, and Cabrales is obviously huge.

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  5. If Hartford has indeed disappeared, I have learned from the other league that there are worse things than setting a team on computer control.

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  6. True, Mack, but that is a bit different, as the league is only three years old and the talent base was a lot more evenly distributed.

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  7. I support #2 - not only would it increase interest as the season wears on, but the teams who've declared themselves out of the race would have more options to make deadline deals with. (Not that I'm speaking from bitterly-won experience here, or anything.)

    I disagree with the idea that #3 doesn't make sense in an online league - I think it might create a few new rivalries, and enhance some of the existing ones (can you imagine the proverbial ink spilled if Mack and Michael were in the SAME league?), but I could take it or leave it all the same. Same with #1 and #4.

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  8. Oh yeah - and if we were to expand the number of playoff teams, I vote for two six-team leagues.

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