All-star game sounds nice but I am not sure if we are able to do that.
I think MVP of league is possible.
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However, it may be hard because we don't see all games -right?
Maybe each manager can sum-up all stats of chosen player from games, with no cheating }:>
I think this is why it is difficult. Not because managers will cheat, but for two reasons:
1. Every manager competing would have to provide the details of games only they can see.
2. We would be relying on this to be done evry week. Not sure that could happen.
@ Paul George and MrJ:
The design choice of keeping PU games private is in one sense understandable and justifiable. However, as this choice of not revealing game scores to all doesn't serve our league all too well, I think some of us from commissioner/staff should send the links to the weeks games box scores to (the newly established, when we eventually create it) league forum so that we all could see each games results at the end of the week. (It would be ideal to add all links into a one forum post).
Anyway, I think an open policy with box scores is the way to go. However, even having open box scores doesn't remove the problem with having enough reliable information at hand to make an informed decision on MVP voting. Nobody of has let us know that they'd know how to or would be eager to keep up/update certain league stats weekly/every other week etc., or let us know how they'd know how to create a script/code that'd extract the information automatically from the box scores that would be sent into a league forum. Maybe we need to convince a manager that created buzzer-manager.com to join the homegrown movement and then he can help us with this... ;D
And like MrJ mentioned, not every manager would be willing to put in the extra work that updating (or even calculating at the end of the season) their best players key stats would take, so I'm afraid it's not simply realistic to get us all do that..
So while open box scored don't solve our problem with the MVP voting though, luckily it's the least of our challenges to get things going, and doesn't necessarily need to be solved within this time frame at least. Rules, penalties etc. are more crucial to a fair and balanced play, so I'll try to focus on those in the coming weeks - having said that, it's certainly welcome to write about other aspects too, please don't get me wrong and keep up the good momentum and keep this thread active.. :)
And in terms of creating a new forum thread to the homegrown teams league, we can do it as soon as we decide the name. Of course it could be ideal (but not mandatory) if we'd already at the point of establishing new forum thread would have most of the groundwork done, also for instance in terms of those informative pages that MrJ has been working on (and putting lot of effort into them - thank you for your work!), but preferably also in terms of key rules/penalties etc.
Speaking of forum threads, I was thinking that we might have quite a lot of discussion during each season, so would you guys (also rest of you HG managers, not only Paul George and MrJ) also think we should open a new thread for every forthcoming season so that it might be easier to find information/discussions for non-supporters, as search function is not available for non-supporters?
These 300 or 1000 message long threads are absolutely dreadful and useless if you want to find some information/certain discussion... At least if threads would be divided into seasons, then one could try to memorize how long ago this and this discussion took place. And of course (if I'd get a say on it) if we implement a new thread for each new season policy, we'd add the welcoming message with information links at the close proximity of "the start of the season welcoming message", so that it would feel easy for also newcomers to find all essential information from a given seasons forum thread.