Lack of Common Sense

[Chris-Suffolk]

Mar 9, 2024 20:33:22 GMT -5 Owen-Moncton said:

Chris: I agree but again, it means that the bubble teams become likely to just unload and mail it in after Thanksgiving , and with no ability to retain the asset, what incentive is there to transact or compete? They’re better off just tanking it. Why try at all if you can’t at least look at flipping assets for a pending UFA who you want to keep around in the future?
If guys don’t want to set their lineups, there’s little that can be done, honestly. But In-game betting could create more interest. From player durability to a slight bump in odds in terms of draft position could be possible incentives . I think some GMA like yourself have been active in player ratings because you understand how it might impact your assets…same idea in many ways.There’s likely numerous ways to make it more enticing to stay active but making non competitive owners shell out more money isn’t the solution in my opinion.

Currently, guys are mailing it in right off the bat! In October Owen.

I'm not saying to make non active GM's pay to play...I'm saying if you don't want to be a GM, then Sayonara! That's what this league is...it entails all of it.

Do you want this league to be 10 GM's being active and the rest just being part time participants? Where every season just the 10 active guys will be competing...and 6 others make the playoffs by default.

Right now, there are 15 active owners. Give or take two or three. Thats roughly half of the league. It's free. No incentive to be active, no penalty for being inactive. Quite a few absentee landlords.

[Owen-Moncton]

Hey Chris I hear you buddy. But to me, the fix is probably in finding ways to make it more engaging somehow. I think that involves studying the problem from a couple different perspectives. It might seem like it’s pointless to do anything. There’s a ‘rich get richer’ POV circulating that suggests there’s no way to punch through and become a perennial threat so it’s like ‘why try’? I don’t subscribe to that theory but it’s out there and I think it would be interesting to look at what things drive engagement. I’m gonna do my thing whether changes come or not. I’m not the problem nor are you, but I think we all owe it to Glenn and each other to look for ways to support the development of the league.