I know your lack of trust is the reason why you think we have to have a set time, Wagner, but I really think it is going to be much easier if we don't have a time, OR, you just pick a random time and we use it. It has to be one or the other. It is going to be extremely laborious to get every team's time difference in relation to every other team's time difference.
Benefit of using a fixed time, that doesn't exceed the actual date boundaries in any part of our participating countries (if it would be 3PM EET, then for you it would be 9PM your local time, and for deano25 it couldn't be later than 11PM so match would still take place on Monday), is also finishing the match almost at the same time.
This, at least theoretically, has multiple benefits in addition to one key reason, which has been mentioned earlier, also by you in this message.
Benefit of matches ending same time have been discussed in previous messages, but include:- you don't see match results from the same round of play before your match even starts
- creates a standard for the league
- minimizes the chance to re-match
- theoretically results are quicker available; possibly quicker updating of league table.
Otherwise there could be huge difference on when matches are actually completed.
Example: team in West coast USA chooses to play at 12.05AM on Monday, vs. team in Eastern Australia decides to schedule the game for Monday starting at 23.55PM. So that's already 23h 50min due to decided difference in starting times, PLUS difference of GMT-8 and GMT-10, which is 18 hours, so in total difference in starting times could be around 42 hours if I calculated correctly!
Even if we would use
designated local time, difference in starting times could be as huge as 16-18 hours between the teams. So these things presented should make it obvious, what are the benefits of a standard/designated match time.
Although you didn't elaborate on the need for a fixed time, I can read between the lines. And, I know you won't like me saying this, however, again, open trust should be our initial philosophy.
I'm also reading between the lines here. With due all respect, I'm not always sure why it is necessary to dislike some system in large parts due to having built the way that it minimizes unwanted behavior? I may not know what all reasons for dislike would be (and I don't even need to know them), but it's just my two cents.
Does having locks in doors either prevent all burglaries, or on the other hand make one a burglar because they now feel that they are not being trusted by their neighbors/random people? Neither, I think, but practice of having locks on doors serves some purpose, that falls into the middle ground in that sense. I guess all of us have come accustomed to some rules in society, and if we would see them only as 'an open statement of distrust', I'm not sure we could even live within our respective countries.
I assure you, there will be million ways left how you can sabotage this league and f* things up for many of us if that's what you want to do, so it will be still very, very much reliant on trust no matter what kind of rule/penalty set I will present before the regular season launches.
Does that mean it's better to throw all rules and penalties to the bin? I don't think so. Does it mean rules/penalties for the Season 1 need to be refined later? Most likely, but that's not the worry we have right now on our hands.
Yet, having said that (knowing you will again disagree with me)...as Commissioner, just pick a random time and that is what everyone will use. Easy. Done. :D
Alright, I'll try to think some time based on many factors. Most participants are from Europe, so it might be sensible to use that as a "middle point" or "reference" when creating fixed time, and assume that "typical BB afternoon match time" would be ideal (which it necessarily isn't) for teams.