Originally posted by OttawaShane
With all respect, why is this just coming to the fore now? There have been many seasons in a row now where league after league after league is riddled with blowouts. But instead of a league structure announcement or even just a call to action like you initiated here, we got a trio of changes that were so baffling, complicated and half-baked that they've been undergoing revision ever since they were announced as "near final" changes.
And per your note about wanting to build a fun game - where is the fun in a financial system that will make recruiting harder for owners, pit player vs. player and player vs. owner in the quest for big contract morale boosts?
Where is the fun in a coaching system that is just two years of clicking with no visible result, all in order to compete?
Where is the fun in needing a spreadsheet and a weekend to decipher a training system so riddled with complexity that at least one of your lead testers and other testers are now openly campaigning against it?
Where is the fun in when people are clamouring for basic features like two point converts and 4 WR formations and intra-team scrimmages and you gave us popcorn night as a morale boost.
Where is the fun when radical changes are being brought into the game for yet another round of "find the exploit" while stamina is being bumped up in importance, there will be a myriad of ways to lose SP efficiency under the new training system, and GLB Inc. hasn't even really begun its review of whether the SAs are working as intended.
And where is the fun when the bulk of a season has now been spent trying to figure out the latest set of revisions and how each subsequent set of re-writes will affect current plans. Well, I suppose its more fun than watching yet another 255-0 blowout.
Do you actually think they haven't been trying to solve the problem of blow outs previously?
I agree that logical league restructuring has been needed for quite some time. And that restructure has to primarily be created by deleting teams. But to think that all the tweaks, buffs, nerfs, VA's, and 50 other band-aids weren't an attempt to solve this problem is kind of ridiculous...