Ideas I think could help
1. Kill the asb. I know it is there to get the cup into proper alignment to finish on time, but that is a real drag down right as the season is amping up.
2. Kill the big 8 great 8 thing and just drop everyone into 16 team leagues with a double round robin. Done creatively it can fit into the current schedule model. Shorten the cup models to account for some 3 game weeks down the stretch.
3. Eliminate the automatic demotion for finishing last. Leagues tend to have disparity between conferences, many the time I have seen a team stuck in the cellar they would be in great shape on the other side. Give those teams a chance to stick around.
4. I might get crucified for this one, but bring back day trading. No I was not a fan of it, yes the elimination of it had the desired effect. However I noticed this was something that a lot of people were into, I think back in the day this WAS the game for those types, bunch of mini Gordon Gekkos playing out3 their wall street fantasies. It was the abandonment of this with the punitive hit to GS AND the penalty for quick resale which really drove off a lot of players. We banter about how we can make this game something more engaging on a day day out basis, folks that was it.
5. Training for many is befuddling, and often to slow for the patience of a world where we want it all, and we want it now! Just like with lineups where we can let coach decide on lineups we should have a similar option for training. And allow some potential for growth of players who are not even getting minutes. I think if someone who does not really train still sees his younger players improving it will make that manager more engaged and perhaps they will seek the way to build players on their own. At the very least this better ensures some manner of maintaining a proper pipeline of players for the future. Now the "house" builds can't be superior to the sweat and toil of doing it yourself, perhaps have these players develop a more general array of skills with naturally the speed influenced by the level of trainer and other accompaniments used ie gym trading court yt etc.
6. Change the free agency model for players fired or coming from teams that went bot. Instead of listing those players at 10x salary list them at minimum and let the market deserve their worth. It will give these players a better chance at finding gainful employment, as it is most I bet go unclaimed and are left to a life of collecting their pensions and asking if you would like fries with that?
7. Have you ever thought about the fact that our players are not players at all but cyber chattel ? Sure you say they are just lines of code with bad haircuts. But behind each of them, in whatever matrix like alternate reality in which they dwell, there is a person. All we see is property, when we say jump we DEMAND they say how high! We work them until they no longer serve us purpose, or in some cases we keep them until old age to bring us our high tea and to carry the other players bags. These guys all play on one year deals and are bound by a pre Curt Flood reserve clause that makes them the property of whomever owns them in perpetuity. MARIN UNSHACKLE THESE CHAINS THAT BIND, BB LIVES MATTER!!!!! Ok maybe that last line was a little over the top, but I think you can see where I'm angling here.
Last edited by Coach Lambini at 4/1/2021 10:16:21 PM