LogFAQs > #920822200

And having updated the wiki pages and the spreadsheet for various personnel changes during the postseason and wiping the injury sheet, our 11th season has come to a close. I will make an official post about returning or leaving the league in the coming days, but feel free to say you are in the meantime.

I want to again apologize for another largely uninteresting postseason. The Raiders being one quarter of positive point differential away from a surprise SB berth and the competitive SB with the nail-bitter of an ending were probably the only interesting points for the general public. I know seeing Cowboys vs Dolphins 3.0 and two teams that were in their fifth SB is boring (I will defend the Dolphins in how scattered their SB appearances have been among other things).

There are a few things we could discuss as possible changes to maybe make it more thoroughly competitive and keep people interested since playoff interest has considerably waned in recent seasons:

1. I step down as a GM period or simply the Dolphins

Only Eddv, Nee, Wiz, and Chris might remember this, but the original plan of the league was for me to take a pure commissioner role and not be involved in the operations for any team. Due to the league operating at around 20 users, I decided that having more users were better given, among many things, the limitations I put on for dealing with AI teams, so I took over my favorite team since they were open.

We could go back to my original plan and have me no longer be a participant in this league or force me to depart the Dolphins immediately and have me take over a different team. If I'm being honest, I like and prefer participating, but if people think that my knowledge of the game gives me too much of a competitive advantage that makes my inclusion unfair, then I can step down and see how much I enjoy taking a backseat role for a season as an experiment.

2. I alter my role in the draft

I talked about this some in the post-playoff discussion, but I think there has been some sizable discontent over the years with teams like the Bucs and Giants of old and recently Cowboys who have seen their users take a backseat in the offseason and reap partial benefits from idling, namely having me draft. I consider drafting and all that it encompasses to be my best skill in this league. While users in charge of those teams haven't fully relied on me, many of their best players in their times of dominance were the result of my drafting for them. The rule has always been that if a team doesn't send me any draft plans and isn't there for the draft, then I draft as if I were in charge of the team.

What we could do is either have me draft according to what the AI would do for the team (they give you a recommended pick), or adopt a specific, uniform strategy (such as first draft best player at position of need, then best player available) instead of my tailor-made plans. I personally am not a fan of that as I think it punishes less-experienced users who are likely in charge of non-SB caliber teams more than SB-caliber ones.

Some users seem to have the outlook that they don't really expect to win a Super Bowl and instead just try to aim to make the playoffs or at least not suck. I don't want people to handicap their dreams in this or feel disenfranchised that Cowboys being in the SB and Dolphins in the thick of things as inevitable and competing against those two teams is an exercise in futility. This league is more about all of you than it is me, so if you think that the lack of parity at the end of the playoffs is an issue, then I am open to suggestions. I would prefer it not being via the two points I mentioned, but I am open-minded and those were the only things that came to mind as a very tired man at 4 AM.
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