Warrior General Games

Originally posted by Rob.
Fix the ladder. Top teams never face each other between Seasoned - Pro.

#1 Pro - Too Many Cooks
Haven't faced #2 Bronx Bombers since season 9
Have faced #3 Central Falcons once in the past 3 seasons
Haven't faced #4 Hostile Takeover since season 9

#2 Pro - Bronx Bombers
Haven't faced Too Many Cooks and Columbus Cobras since season 9.

#7 Journeyman - Saskatchewan
Haven't played a single top 10 Journeyman team in ladder all season

#1 Seasoned - PORN
Haven't played a single top 10 Seasoned team in ladder all season

#3 Seasoned - No Name
Haven't played a single top 10 Seasoned team in ladder all season

#5 Seasoned - HAHA
Haven't played a single top 10 Seasoned team in ladder all season

etc.

I don't have time to look through every team, but I am sure there are plenty of more examples.

The response has always been that the ladder is there for ensuring teams playing competitive games every few days, not for deciding the best teams each season.

Originally posted by Fumblerooski
The response has always been that the ladder is there for ensuring teams playing competitive games every few days, not for deciding the best teams each season.

Except that plenty of times the games themselves aren't competitive between blowing out a CPU team a tier or up getting annihilated by a competitive team two tiers up. The principle is good in theory but not necessarily in practice.

Originally posted by jfbueno
Except that plenty of times the games themselves aren't competitive between blowing out a CPU team a tier or up getting annihilated by a competitive team two tiers up. The principle is good in theory but not necessarily in practice.

Well, that's a side effect of resetting every season. You end up having to work your way back through the swamp.

Originally posted by Corndog
Well, that's a side effect of resetting every season. You end up having to work your way back through the swamp.

Understood but some kind of middle ground I think would help alleviate some issues that we're seeing in ladder when it comes to that. I tend to side with Xars idea of putting an emphasis on inter-tier top team matchups for the last few ladder games of the season. It won't negate the purpose of teams playing across tiers for 90% of the season and it helps promote inter-tier rivalries between teams.

Originally posted by jfbueno
Understood but some kind of middle ground I think would help alleviate some issues that we're seeing in ladder when it comes to that. I tend to side with Xars idea of putting an emphasis on inter-tier top team matchups for the last few ladder games of the season. It won't negate the purpose of teams playing across tiers for 90% of the season and it helps promote inter-tier rivalries between teams.

Ive heard corndogs argument that the ladder isnt meant to crown a champion, but you wouldnt be giving ladder trophies if this were entirely true. This solution is the best compromise between the admins need to establish elo through cross tier play, and the players demand to see the top teams in each tier play eachother. The last 5 ladder matches should not only be same tier only but the scope should narrow to promote play against teams nearest their own ranking. No one wants to see games like PORN vs Northwest Storms, that game did absolutely nothing to establish either teams place on the ladder. Ive heard the argument that all league games are same tier and while that may be true but allowing useless teams like this https://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/team/1371 to continue clogging our leagues and wasting our time despite multiple seasons of owner inactivity cheapens those games by preventing league consolidation to promote competition. Making excuses and failing to admit the system needs reworking isnt the answer.

Originally posted by Jagat0r
Ive heard corndogs argument that the ladder isnt meant to crown a champion, but you wouldnt be giving ladder trophies if this were entirely true.

I've been saying this for a few seasons now. Unless you play all the teams in the tier or you have some kind of tournament, you will not really know who the best team is in each tier.

Fix playside DE blocking on outside runs!!!

Add an auto halo Inside the backfield on outside runs for the lead blockers(our FB still ignores LBS and DEs running free in the backfield to tackles for a loss Directly after pitch!!!)

Nerf the million DB break run block Buffs over the last 5 seasons a bit back OR Buff the WR blocking some kind...These Buffs together with block nerf were too much I think...


The first 2 are more important

Tier wide stat leader board..League + ladder... please!!!

Never mind...wrong thread.

No...player stats.

Originally posted by Galactic Empire
No...player stats.

For some reason I thought this was one of the tier discussions. Now that I realize what thread I'm in, you're making a suggestion. My bad.