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Post by midmissourians on Nov 3, 2016 13:47:32 GMT -5
I know it's looking like a shutdown is looming, but with people committed to keep running this, wondered if we'd have enough interest to maintain a tiny league...
I'm thinking 8-10 teams? Two leagues... no divisions, winner of each league goes to the championship game for a best of 7 winner takes all?
Or we could do 1 league 10 teams, no playoffs?
I'd also think we could shorten the number of games in a season?
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 3, 2016 14:15:43 GMT -5
I'd also think this could be a fun league to try out some quirky things to attempt to make it more interesting.
Some of my thoughts.
A no trading league... none what so ever.
All players eligible for free agency go to free agency.
Probably can come up with more quirky ideas.
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Post by manny on Nov 3, 2016 14:59:04 GMT -5
I dont know, I'd stick around, but don't think a 8-10 team league would be too appealing at least for me personally
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Post by thenamelesspoet on Nov 3, 2016 20:13:10 GMT -5
I am mildly interested in some of those ideas.
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 3, 2016 20:21:15 GMT -5
The other one I thought interesting would be to put finances on the lowest level and basically play like in old days that once a player is on your team he can be on your team forever. Almost have no free agency.
Would be intriguing to basically skip over free agency every season.
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Post by thenamelesspoet on Nov 4, 2016 8:24:24 GMT -5
The other one I thought interesting would be to put finances on the lowest level and basically play like in old days that once a player is on your team he can be on your team forever. Almost have no free agency. Would be intriguing to basically skip over free agency every season. I thought of this too. only problem is I think it would get very boring. |
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 4, 2016 13:16:19 GMT -5
Guess that depends on people's interest level. I agree if we are a bunch of 17 year old kids that might seem boring, I'd like to believe adults can find entertainment in ways other than that.
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Post by Incognito on Nov 4, 2016 15:55:42 GMT -5
Well, I'd be open to keeping this going, however with you guys talking about shutting down right before the draft, I didn't send a list in thinking this was going to be it, so why bother with drafting players I'd never get to see play anyways? Had this been floated around I would have spent some time on the draft.
However, I would like to try and keep it going. I wouldn't do anything wacky with expenses. I still have to pay Sanchez a lot next season. Also, if you limit the number of teams, it should lower the number of games automatically. Like in NAM, we have 16 teams and 140 games. That would probably be similar in an 8-10 team league. I think they played 140 games back in Ruth's day when they had 8 teams or so.
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 4, 2016 18:14:22 GMT -5
Well if we wanted to go with no free agency I'd basically flat out all player salaries, salary basically would be of no consequence.
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Post by Incognito on Nov 4, 2016 21:07:33 GMT -5
Not exactly sure how I like no FA. Will have to think about it. Would put a major emphasis on drafts. Since, me and several others likely skipped the draft this year expecting the worst, not good for us.
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 4, 2016 21:55:29 GMT -5
We could allow for reparations to correct that issue.
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Post by s6x on Nov 5, 2016 11:11:08 GMT -5
We could allow for reparations to correct that issue. if we were going to change league size, finances, etc then i would rather us restart the file entirely than to change things and keep moving forward in this one |
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Post by bruecrue on Nov 5, 2016 21:10:18 GMT -5
I agree with s6x. Id like to continue but if we cut down we should start over. Maybe go throwback to a year when they had only a handful of teams and follow expansion if interest grows again.
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Post by thenamelesspoet on Nov 6, 2016 20:04:17 GMT -5
We could always go to 1901
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 6, 2016 21:23:50 GMT -5
I'm not interested in a restart... you guys can continue on without me, but if I was going with a restart I'd rather a regular a bit bigger league. I just thought if everyone wanted to continue on we could.
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Post by Incognito on Nov 8, 2016 2:23:38 GMT -5
I'm not really interested in a restart either at the moment. If however you wanted to wipe out injuries, I'd be ok with that.  Also, if we continue I'd hope the malware or whatever gets fixed, or change to a different board. |
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Post by midmissourians on Nov 8, 2016 14:27:03 GMT -5
Well I may try to formulate my opinion on things I'd like to see considered moving forward if people are interested, and yes I'd prefer a jcink board myself.
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Post by s6x on Nov 10, 2016 13:42:18 GMT -5
again, my preference is to continue.
restart was suggested as an avenue to increase league size/activity. i specifically recruited one GM here who is looking for a league of this type, but was hesitant to join after reading this thread. a restart starts drawing in those GMs...
if we do cut down to 10 or 12 teams or something, i think two leagues (1 division per) would be cool. but i also could see this driving down activity as only a handful of teams would be in a pennant chase each season.
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Post by offseason on Nov 16, 2016 13:18:04 GMT -5
If this goes on, great, but we need more activity.
If it ends after this season, how about unlocking the file so we can play out the string with the teams we've built on our own, as a last hurrah?
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Post by thenamelesspoet on Nov 17, 2016 20:04:18 GMT -5
I am ok with that :-)
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Post by chuck on Nov 17, 2016 21:13:11 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of no FA, no trading or resets to 1901. I just think we've pretty much died a natural death in this one. It's an odd league to start with, with fictional teams and players, a hard league to recruit to in the first place. I keep up with this one at this point more out of obligation than interest. I don't know the last time I made a trade with anyone and to me trading and signing players is the most fun part of this, building something and constantly tweaking it. Of course my teams all suck so maybe I'm looking at it wrong.
I know there aren't any new Mogul leagues out there with current, real teams and players, I don't know if that's a way to start from scratch and maybe get more people who are looking for that. Mogul is a dying animal as it is, as sad as it seems this league looks to be another casualty of that.
I'll stick around to the end, but it appears the end is coming soon and it won't be fun. Kind of like a date with Manny.
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Post by Incognito on Nov 18, 2016 1:53:02 GMT -5
I'll stick around to the end, but it appears the end is coming soon and it won't be fun. Kind of like a date with Manny. Don't feel bad. I'm sure all the girls Manny goes out with say the same thing. |
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