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1. Allow us to hide/block people on the forums. I enjoy reading the forums but there are certain community members who spew out high volumes of cruddy posts that make my eyes bleed.

2. An efficiency/PER statistic on the boxscores. Buzzer Manager has added this stat for every player on every boxscore so it shouldn't be too hard to implement here.

3. Team captains. It could be a purely aesthetic feature, just a C next to the player, or have in game implications. Maybe your captain would temporarily get +1 experience while they have the title.

3. Team captains. It could be a purely aesthetic feature, just a C next to the player, or have in game implications. Maybe your captain would temporarily get +1 experience while they have the title.

my team doesn't have team captains. Causwe then they'd fight all day and wouldn't let the task at hand get done......all I say is "My team is team captain"

1. i used it once, and for me it get worse since you still see the replys to his post. And the discussion it causes. Also people who them ask what is it about, or mentioning that they blocked and want it to get explained by someone else. I am not a big fan of ignore features.

2. PER is most likely impossible, since imho you need a stable player base in a league to get good basic value. Player eff would be really nice.

3. I don't need the C, and i am against the proposed bonus.

1 i guess u mean me so no it would also make things confusing for new players

2 +1 to crazyeyes modification to this suggestion to player eff

3 i know who the captain is & u can become a supporter & put it in the players quote

1. I'd be blocked by too many people since I'm so annoying. That would make me feel bad. I also agree with the above comment that you'd still see the replies, so blocking posts probably won't be as useful as you'd think.

2. PER would be really hard to figure out since it is pace-adjusted, and making that adjustment... I wouldn't even know where to begin. Efficiency is a really great stat in a box score, but over the course of a season it loses meaning since each game has different circumstances affecting efficiency. For example, a bench player on a dominant BB team might only see minutes in garbage time along side other scrubs when the other team is still playing its starters, which will make a bad player look even worse with efficiency, while players who are only playing in important games, but not in games that are tanked for enthusiasm/GS reasons, might have an artificially inflated efficiency since he's playing along his team's best players with good attitude. I think there might be other useful stats to think about, so I think you are thinking along the right lines. Perhaps what we really need is a convenient way to do our own statistical data analysis or to have a convenient way to download our game stats into a consolidated database. I there there might already be some manager-generated resources out there for doing these sorts of analyses, so if there are maybe it would be nice for somebody to reference a post to them here.

3. Giving any sort of bonus to a captain is opening up a whole Pandora's box to all sorts of evils, not to mention that it doesn't really make sense to do that. That being said, the only reason to think about having captains would be to add to the dressing offered to Supporters, sort of like uniform numbers but less interesting. It would probably be an fairly easy add on to the game, but it would still take time to design and implement and this sort of thing would likely be way down on the priority list. In short, not a terrible idea if it's only a decorative thing, but don't hold your breathe waiting for it (unless you have lungs the size of Texas).

Thanks for generating some thoughtful discussion, keep the ideas coming!

Having a captain who gain some bonus is a good idea, and I think the experience is probably the right bonus...