On your blog your saying: ''Another thing that had me hooked is the playoff system at the end of the season. In most of these manager games, championships are based only upon regular season record, as is more common in Europe.'' Thats false. Europe has play offs on basketball on the domestic leagues at least. What we dont have is the divisions. Euroleague have final four, but to get there you need again to be on the play offs.
Again is false. I dont know any league in Europe that doesnt have play offs. Even my small country(just 700-800k) with very little interest for basketball we have play offs.
Appreciate the feedback, but Juice is exactly right. EVERY team sports league in the United States (except for Division 1-A college football, and even they have a 1-game championship "playoff") has a playoff. Even some of the individual sports (PGA Tour, Nascar) are adding them. And in college football, everyone without a financial interest in the current system is clamoring to have one. Given that a large majority of my readership is American, they might be totally perplexed by any sports league not having a playoff to decide it's champion. The implication was simply that, in all sports in general, the idea of deciding a team champion based on the regular season record is a wholly European idea.The blog isn't about buzzerbeater, it's about online manager games. Many (or most) manager games decide champions based on regular season record, and it might have partially to do with ease of programming, but it also has to do with the fact that most of these games are run by Europeans, where this is a MORE familiar system.To an American reader (as Juice demonstrates) this makes a lot of sense. Not to be egocentric about it, but that's just where most of my readership has been from.Hope that clears it up, and again thanks for the feedback. Didn't know positions updated throughout the year, because I guess I only notice them after the season change. :-)