Originally posted by threadkiller
Is a second league sort on the NGTH list? I know it's been mentioned over and over, but seems to address the league problems pretty well.
We have age caps on the leagues now. Why not number of human player, average player level, and average player value floors? Wouldn't require a time consuming human sort. Do the normal league promotion/relegation on day 41 and another on the final day of the offseason.
Doesn't solve all the problems, teams can still gut at any time. If a team/owner REALLY wants to win Reg. Pro #6 he can still sign all his guys on day -8 . Would clean up most of the issues. There really isn't a good reason to go into the preseason with obvious can't compete Nat. Pro teams when there are always seem to be enough Reg Pro teams with 45+ human players who average in the low-mid 70's in level at 1200 player value or greater to fill those slots.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=536
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=5409
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=2776
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=2945
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=910
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=232
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=4139
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=1601
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=521
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=1565
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=2748
http://goallineblitz.com/game/roster.pl?team_id=1151
That's glancing through reg pro 1-3 undefeated teams.this is what i posted a few weeks ago in another thread.
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bort needs to stop caring what the ones that game the system think. does any one actually enjoy paying for teams that play half to 3/4 of their games as blowouts? even the elite leagues are filled with teams that dont belong there. bort answered this in the most recent Q&A, and tbh, his answer was pretty weak. the biggest worry about sorting teams into the right leagues is that many teams will game the system and not sign their players until they are placed in a lower league.
there's no reason to put teams into leagues on day 41, not since age based leagues came about. so day 41, put all the teams into the appropriate age "cloud". teams recruit for the rest of the off season. then on day -9, teams get sorted with a simple formula:
(high EL + median EL + average EL + lowest EL) / 4 this is your base EL
take the base EL and multiple it by the number of humans on the team then divide by 55 giving you your sort EL
now put the teams in order of the sort EL, top 32 go into league 1, next 32 into league 2, etc. now to stop the teams from signing all their studs at that point, each league will not only be given an age abut an EL limit. the EL limit can be set to the max team in the league, so if your studs are too high, they cant sign with you at the lower leagues. this encourages teams and players to get onto their teams during the off season if you want to make sure that you can be on that team. league #1 would have no EL limit, so all the best players will be forced into the top lagues once the preseason hits.
another way to push teams into appropriate leagues is to only give out trophies and count stats from the top 2 or 3 leagues for each age group. no more level 79s building huge stats against level 50s.
we'll never have competitive leagues as long as the stat whores dictate how leagues are set up.
no wonder this game is just going downhill. 
