Originally posted by PP
Originally posted by taurran
What I was thinking.
They're pretty fucking terrible right now. "Let's stack all the top teams in one conference! durhurhurhrurhur"
I mean, forget this random script. Do it based on rankings of some sort.
sounds great in theory...Who does the rankings? How do you know who the best teams are going to be? What formula do you use to predict which teams will lose their OC/DC for an extended period (or completely) and which ones will put forth real effort? I suppose you could then have each team fill out Vacation questionnaires for their key GMs and factor that in, too. Then, use effective lvl to determine if the dots being replaced are upgrades or downgrades over what they were the ssn before? Add on top of that some teams being able to boost more players.
As I said, sounds real good and great, but it starts falling apart in practice. Hell, last ssn's WL champs are 10-5. Wouldn't have they been considered the toughest team in GLB entering this ssn? Who would have ranked QCBCs above Kai, Mayan, Hali & SoCal?
When I saw the leagues at the beginning of the season I had the same thought as OP. And considering the consequences of not making the playoffs (Demotion and a hard road back to WL), it is a pretty serious issue.
Nonetheless, PP is right. I don't see how anyone can handpick the teams to balance it any better than a random draw. And the truth is that almost any team could win any given week--I suspect the difference has more to do with how much game planning some teams do and how good they are at it and not the quality of the dots. It isn't like you can just look at Effective Levels or total SP for team to determine the rankings.
Originally posted by taurran
What I was thinking.
They're pretty fucking terrible right now. "Let's stack all the top teams in one conference! durhurhurhrurhur"
I mean, forget this random script. Do it based on rankings of some sort.
sounds great in theory...Who does the rankings? How do you know who the best teams are going to be? What formula do you use to predict which teams will lose their OC/DC for an extended period (or completely) and which ones will put forth real effort? I suppose you could then have each team fill out Vacation questionnaires for their key GMs and factor that in, too. Then, use effective lvl to determine if the dots being replaced are upgrades or downgrades over what they were the ssn before? Add on top of that some teams being able to boost more players.
As I said, sounds real good and great, but it starts falling apart in practice. Hell, last ssn's WL champs are 10-5. Wouldn't have they been considered the toughest team in GLB entering this ssn? Who would have ranked QCBCs above Kai, Mayan, Hali & SoCal?
When I saw the leagues at the beginning of the season I had the same thought as OP. And considering the consequences of not making the playoffs (Demotion and a hard road back to WL), it is a pretty serious issue.
Nonetheless, PP is right. I don't see how anyone can handpick the teams to balance it any better than a random draw. And the truth is that almost any team could win any given week--I suspect the difference has more to do with how much game planning some teams do and how good they are at it and not the quality of the dots. It isn't like you can just look at Effective Levels or total SP for team to determine the rankings.
