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Originally posted by Novus
You know who thinks that?

Idiots think that.

Not that I was saying I think that way, but there are people that do think that way.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
No thank you. I think the bulk of us remember having 55 dots lined up to be signed with a potential team owner unsure if they were getting a team.

The thing was, I usually waited to put myself on the list the night before, and always got a team.

Originally posted by Novus
Well, here's the deal... if there are 65 people who spent the Flex Points to own University teams, what exactly are Bort and Catch supposed to do? The logical thing to do there is pretty much what they're already doing: put the best 32 teams in Elite #1, put the next-best 32 teams in Competitive #2, and put that last human team (#65) in Normal #3 along with 31 CPU teams to round out the league. It's simple math...

...and then the chucklehead who owns that last team comes along and says, "I'm in a league with 31 CPU teams! This is ridiculous!"

What should Bort and Catch do differently? FORCE people to buy up the other 31 CPU teams in the bottom league? Or perhaps they could tell the owner of the #65 team, "Sorry, but you clearly suck at owning a team anyway, so we're not going to let you pay us money to own one. But hey, now we can shut down Normal #3, so at least there's no CPU teams anymore either! Happy now?"

It's simple math. Unless the number of human owned teams is evenly-divisible by 32, you're going to end up with at least 1 league with CPU teams in each tier. And Bort and Catch usually put those CPU teams down in Normal so that they don't clutter up Elite and Competitive.

well, wha they COULD DO

is the spread those 31 CPU teams around just a bit!
say, put 5 in the elite, 10 in the competitive, and the rest of the 16 go to regular

that way, you don't end up with one human team playing in an all CPU league.
that way would make sense, much more sense than 0 at the top and 99% at the bottom

Originally posted by CyberNinja
Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust

No thank you. I think the bulk of us remember having 55 dots lined up to be signed with a potential team owner unsure if they were getting a team.

The thing was, I usually waited to put myself on the list the night before, and always got a team.

bs considering the wait list used to be 1500+ users long.

In college football if Athletic Directors choose to change their schedule they have that perrogative. I believe GLB should allow or even help schedule those CPU dates against other teams in other leagues in similar "bye weeks." Those bye weeks shouldn't count towards league records..just like in college football.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
bs considering the wait list used to be 1500+ users long.

Nope, you're just out of touch with reality, I always got a team off the waiting list.

Originally posted by darncat
well, wha they COULD DO

is the spread those 31 CPU teams around just a bit!
say, put 5 in the elite, 10 in the competitive, and the rest of the 16 go to regular

that way, you don't end up with one human team playing in an all CPU league.
that way would make sense, much more sense than 0 at the top and 99% at the bottom

Elite teams shouldn't be playing CPU teams, they've earned that right.

Originally posted by darncat
well, wha they COULD DO

is the spread those 31 CPU teams around just a bit!
say, put 5 in the elite, 10 in the competitive, and the rest of the 16 go to regular

HELL to the NO.

Then instead of having 1 league polluted with CPU teams, you'd have 3 leagues polluted with CPU teams. How is that any better at all?

If you're a human team owner who is stuck in a "normal" league and doesn't like having to play CPU teams, you already have a simple solution: get better at owning a team.

Seriously, to escape the "normal" league, all you have to do is make the playoffs and get promoted up to Competitive. And then to stay out of the "normal" league, all you have to do is make the playoffs in Competitive and get promoted up to Elite. And even if you crash out of Elite and demote back down to Competitive, just make sure you make the playoffs there again.

That's really not that hard. Most Competitive leagues are still pretty terrible. If you can't even make the playoffs in Competitive, you suck as a team owner, plain and simple, and you should probably take that as a hint to sell your team and go be a coordinator for someone else for a while, just so you can learn how to play the game better.

You got CPU opponents? I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems, CPUs ain't one.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
No thank you. I think the bulk of us remember having 55 dots lined up to be signed with a potential team owner unsure if they were getting a team.

ya, the time you only have two days to create dots, and don't know if you can buy a team. GG, GLB.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
No thank you. I think the bulk of us remember having 55 dots lined up to be signed with a potential team owner unsure if they were getting a team.

Anyone that wasn't stupid got a team. I tried to inform people how to set up their preferences to get a team and most ignored me. The ones that listened got a team.

I have never understood why glb allowed owners to jump the ship mid season? and dont you get some sort of credit for it as well?

it may suck for players to be on a crappy team with an owner who has gone absent but those occurrences (being able to sell a team mid season) should not be encouraged due to a lack of effort. Things happen and sometimes people disappear and teams suffer from it, but owners who give up mid season make it worse. The commitment should be held strong for the whole season. Users should be rated on being able to buy a team again if they have had issues with having a low roster count, super low score, high amount of buying and selling teams mid season etc.


I realize that we are bound to have CPU teams and what are in effect human owned CPU teams but there have to be some higher standards for the top leagues of each level.

Look at EPL. http://goallineblitz.com/game/league.pl?league_id=9

There are two former WL teams demoted and they have 0 human controlled players. Why are they there? There should be a roster minimum of 50 or so human controlled players or else they are sent into regional pro cpu land and someone else moves up. When i constantly see that happen each season. Its just laziness not to fix it.

Originally posted by Moretti
Look at EPL. http://goallineblitz.com/game/league.pl?league_id=9

There are two former WL teams demoted and they have 0 human controlled players. Why are they there? There should be a roster minimum of 50 or so human controlled players or else they are sent into regional pro cpu land and someone else moves up. When i constantly see that happen each season. Its just laziness not to fix it.

I've made Bort and Catch a formal offer to be their go-to guy for sorting out just this sort of league issue, just so they wouldn't have to worry about it themselves.

They said, "No thanks."

They really don't care about it. In their minds, the simpler they can make league placement, the better, even if it leads to really screwed up situations like that.

Originally posted by Moretti
I have never understood why glb allowed owners to jump the ship mid season? and dont you get some sort of credit for it as well?

it may suck for players to be on a crappy team with an owner who has gone absent but those occurrences (being able to sell a team mid season) should not be encouraged due to a lack of effort. Things happen and sometimes people disappear and teams suffer from it, but owners who give up mid season make it worse. The commitment should be held strong for the whole season. Users should be rated on being able to buy a team again if they have had issues with having a low roster count, super low score, high amount of buying and selling teams mid season etc.


I realize that we are bound to have CPU teams and what are in effect human owned CPU teams but there have to be some higher standards for the top leagues of each level.

Look at EPL. http://goallineblitz.com/game/league.pl?league_id=9

There are two former WL teams demoted and they have 0 human controlled players. Why are they there? There should be a roster minimum of 50 or so human controlled players or else they are sent into regional pro cpu land and someone else moves up. When i constantly see that happen each season. Its just laziness not to fix it.



Be careful what you wish for...

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
bs considering the wait list used to be 1500+ users long.

I dont think it was bs. I only bought one team the one time between the season 3-4 rollover. I put myself on the list around the season 3 playoffs. I got my team, but so did some friends of mine who waited until the season ended to get on the list. I remember specifically because they were really wanting a team and was hoping we all would get into the same league so we could compete against each other. They had created extra leagues based on the number of owners waiting in queue. And as a side note, we all got into the same league (5 teams). Was fun for bragging rights and all that.

Originally posted by darncat
well, wha they COULD DO

is the spread those 31 CPU teams around just a bit!
say, put 5 in the elite, 10 in the competitive, and the rest of the 16 go to regular

that way, you don't end up with one human team playing in an all CPU league.
that way would make sense, much more sense than 0 at the top and 99% at the bottom

congrats, 4 years and you still dont understand anything.

thats like saying, here NFL take some of these shitty CFL teams and give us some of those american teams because it isn't fair that Canadian football sucks.

Elite teams are in elite because they're elite. teams in normal leagues play CPU teams because they suck. I dont know how much better the system could be.