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There should be a stat shown during contract time how many days the owner has left to own the team. Recently, I signed with a team and owner skipped out 2 days into season.

Originally posted by tanqueray buccaneers
There should be a stat shown during contract time how many days the owner has left to own the team. Recently, I signed with a team and owner skipped out 2 days into season.

Keep in mind, I, as a team owner, can have 117 days of ownership left on a team and can still sell off the team with zero warning to the people on my team. That's most likely what happened to you. Your Suggestion has some value anyway, but unfortunately your Suggestion would do nothing to fix the particular problem you're trying to solve.

I've been telling people since 2008 -- be careful which team you join. Do your research. Don't just accept an offer from the team owner who makes you the most extravagant promises of playing time and stats... those usually turn out to be the worst team owners. Check their past records. Do they have trophies in Elite leagues that actually take some skill to win, or are all of their trophies in non-Elite leagues where just having a pulse is enough to win? Can they clearly and specifically tell you what their strategy is, or do they just throw buzzwords at you in an attempt to impress you? Do they lose a lot of games by 50 or more points? THERE IS NO EASY SUBSTITUTE FOR DOING YOUR HOMEWORK. Almost every bad team owner out there runs up plenty of red flags, and it's not GLB's fault if an agent chooses not to tilt their head up to notice them.

It's kind of funny how obsolete team ownership is anyway.

Owners don't need to do anything now, except take out the loan in the first 2 seasons, which is ridiculous anyway when there's a CFO that is supposed to be in charge of all the money.

Case in point: http://glb.warriorgeneral.com/game/team.pl?team_id=29

The owner doesn't even have a single dot on the team, hasn't made a single post in the forum all season, and of course has nothing to do with coordinators nor done anything related to the team at all.

Team ownership should have been a privilege to be earned over time, instead of just a cash grab.

Depends on the team, TJ. For my team, I'm the owner AND everything else: OC, CFO, scouter, recruiter, ST coordinator, everything EXCEPT the defense, which is run by our Co-Owner. The rest of our "titled" GMs have their titles just for fun. But yeah, there's plenty of "absentee" owners out there as well who just write the Flex checks and let everyone else run things.

But that's all part of "doing your research" as well when picking a team: find out who actually does what on the team, and talk to whoever is going to be directly using your dot. If things don't feel right, don't sign. Anyone can promise anything in this game, but you as an agent have almost zero leverage if those promises are broken. Gotta keep that in mind. About 80% of the "bad owner" problems I've seen people get into could've been avoided by sending a few PMs and taking some time to think before clicking Accept.

Been with single owner / one-man teams where everything [but the scouting I did] was built by, ran by, and owned by one person... and I've been on teams where it was hard to figure out who was doing what. While there's nothing GLB can do for the OP's suggestion, it has made it better for agents that suddenly find themselves on a CPU team. I think (not sure) that they can stay on that team... if not for rest of season then at least for a specified # of days. It's been a LONG time since I had a dot get the dreaded automatic 'Team Sold' PM from GLB.