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i like this one :)

Good suggestion!

How could you possibly make this work? Anyone could just hire 20 x $4,000 players for $1k each to get in, or sell someone to get in then buy someone even better. Look at Naker Virus. One week his team salary is $250,000 then next it is $12,000.

Even using the ratings isn't a good system. Last season I was rated 70 in Australia and my team was bad. This season I was rated about 105 in Australia and trust me my team is MUCH better than last season but my rating reflects how bad I was last season more than my 22-0 record this season.

This is simply is a waste of programming time. If you are running the league just use your brain and only let suitable people in. How hard is it to use your brain?

I think using Naker as an example of how people could cheat the rule is a bad example. Naker is plainly not a normal manager (no offense intended to Naker). But it is a good example of the exception to the rule that could happen. I would say most managers (>99%) do not vary their players a lot. Only at some specific moments do managers make a drastic move.

If I could use my brain to predict that one of the managers I let into my league would go and "crash" their team, I would certainly be using my brain as well to get enormously rich.

But you raise a good question: What to do when a team in a PL does not fit the profile of the PL anymore?

My suggestion: Do nothing. Letthe profile be only like an entrance fee. Once you're in, you're in.



Last edited by Airwin66 at 9/27/2010 2:08:59 AM

If you are running the league just use your brain and only let suitable people in. How hard is it to use your brain?

Are you trying to tell me I am an idiot? How should this help the suggestion?

A salary cap could also be programmed that way that lineups over/under a certain amount cannot be submitted - how about that? That way it would be irrelevant if someone bought a salary behemoth that would make a team go over the cap, as long as a lineup according to the league rules is possible.

Use your brain to add something to the discussion instead of dropping some useless crap please.

If you are running the league just use your brain and only let suitable people in. How hard is it to use your brain?

Are you trying to tell me I am an idiot? How should this help the suggestion?

A salary cap could also be programmed that way that lineups over/under a certain amount cannot be submitted - how about that? That way it would be irrelevant if someone bought a salary behemoth that would make a team go over the cap, as long as a lineup according to the league rules is possible.

Use your brain to add something to the discussion instead of dropping some useless crap please.

i wouldn't like that, because maybe a team promotes, and get a better roster because of it - but aren't allowed to test his formations anymore because he break the cap. The same count for training.

But i think those salary areas, still would help to find a PL with intresting matches because the differences shouldn't be so big(even when you could get into some of those leagues with selling tricks^^)

When inviting other teams, don't invite teams with a huge payroll if you don't want those teams. And before you accept an invitation, ask the inviting manager if there is a limit to the roster payroll for the teams getting invited. And if there is no limit, check out the other teams joining the league before accepting the invitation, and then keep checking to see what other teams join before the league is activated. And if you just don't know who's going to be in the league and/or won't be doing the research on the league, then just create your own darn league and invite who you want.
That works for me.

I think your 100 steps program to joining a private league is a good option for those who have a lot of time :D

I don't think it takes that much time. My current league seems to be a good for my teams (I'm 1-2 and should probably win about half of the regular games and will be feared in the playoffs), and all I had to do find it was post in the PL thread that I was looking for a league. Within 2 days I had 5 invites and it took about 8 minutes to figure out which league was the closest match to my team's competitiveness (1 had a lot of really great teams, 1 would have been very little challenge for my team, and of the others I found one that I felt was the most balanced and closest to my roster's capability).

Similarly, when I create my own leagues, I just post that I'm looking and I get many teams messaging me that they are interested. I invite the teams that within a general range of competitiveness and can usually hunt down other teams to round out the league with a little effort (creating a balanced league takes a little more time than joining one). It's really not that hard and not so time consuming.

A roster salary cap doesn't necessarily get you what you want anyway. Some teams have maybe 4 or 5 huge salaries and no depth, some teams have a large roster full of mediocrity but more payroll. And once a league starts, some teams may buy a superstar or two from the TL and go above the salary cap (especially if teams promote to a higher division before the end of the PL schedule).

It's my opinion that current system isn't broke.