Warrior General Games

Just been going through the teams and looking at the changes as all the collapsing teams this past season were giving me some worries as to the long term strength of the league. It's good to see that a lot of teams are rebuilding this season and the depth of the league looks set to improve if anything. Thought i'd do a rundown of the teams for East and West in regards their development to give an idea of the big picture as far as the league this season (as no-one else has bothered yet ).

West

Teams with full roster (not gonna comment on quality, but these guys all have players for their positions and will be competing);

Tucson
Anchorage
RAVING
RGB
Fresno
Tallahassee
Dallas
Phoenix
San Diego

Teams Rebuilding (Will likely be ready come the new season);

Las Vegas (Borderline but they have no depth at half their positions now so dropped to this category for the moment)
Roswell (Missing a starting LB at least)
So Cal (CB shortage)
Chicago (WR/CB shortage)


Gutted;

H-Town
Colorado
Omaha


Conference Status:- 8 or 9 teams in a position to compete this season already, expecting RGB to slot in around 9 or 10 in their first year down but heavily dependant on their signings. Big improvers, probably Tucson, San Diego and Tallahassee, would expect all three solidly in the playoffs. So.Cal also after a rebound year after last years shambles, and should jump to about 10th.

Biggest losers, probably H-Town, and to a lesser extent Las Vegas. H-town will struggle below .500, Las Vegas to find themselves fighting to hold 5th from the improving teams below but should still make the playoffs comfortably.



East

Teams with full roster (not gonna comment on quality, but these guys all have players for their positions and will be competing);

New Orleans
San Marcos
Key Largo
Buffalo (Why is this team still wasting wages on unused CPU players?)
Pittsburgh (Lot of inactives but too soon to worry, it is the offseason after all)
Charlotte
San Vascarba
AP (Have rebuilt well from their season 2 self-gutting/restart)
Dirty South
Thetford
All The King's (will just call them ATK )

Teams Rebuilding (Will likely be ready come the new season);

New Hampshire (short a G and CB at least)
Holly (short a CB or two)
Springfield (new owners already started reconstruction and looks to be making a good job)

Gutted;

Collinsville
Greenville (Now this is an ugly gutting, no players at all, have sent a PM expressing good luck to the new owner, it's gonna take a lot of work)


Conference Status:- Lot more teams set up for the new season than the West, with fewer large scale team rebuilds on the go. San Marcos look the team to beat with New Orleans close behind, but theres some decent depth at the bottom of the playoff spots that should be interesting come late season. ATK probably also looking to push for 8th but will likely fall just short of the playoffs first season down.

Collinsville the big losers this season by far, biggest improver is harder to pick and will come down to minor changes in team lineup.

Summary

Overall the league is looking pretty good for the new season, we have some competitive conference matchups to look forward to, New Orleans and San Marcos in the East, half the league in the West , and we'll likely be sending up two very strong franchises this year once again to the A leagues. We've got some teams rebuilding for the future to keep an eye on, and some up and coming teams looking to impress and jump up a tier in their respective conference. With that and the new AI incoming, it looks set to be another exciting season in the #13, let the best team win.

So. Cal is almost revamped and ready to take the field. We had a dismal season last due to GM incompetence. We moved from Portland and found a nice warm home in Souther California.

My team isn't really gutted. I simply released the guys whose contracts were expiring or they were inactive.

And yeah, I got my work cut out for me. As does any GLB team with a history of losing.

nice work

we will probably be average again

I don't believe it for a second pontiac. Unless you've intentionally brought in bad build players for comedy value there is no way with those level differences (new signings vs the old starters) your not gonna be a bigger threat. You guys and So. Cal. especially have been busy, along with a few other minor changes for other teams. Taking a list of all the opposing teams players and levels last year has its uses for comparison purposes.

Lies! Lies! Lies!

We're rebuilding

oh we have a few tricks up our sleeves as well

we'll be fine.

got a couple WR's and CB's comign.

Originally posted by HATEMOBSTER
oh we have a few tricks up our sleeves as well

Whats the surprise? Bankruptcy?

Originally posted by skippyjlo
Originally posted by HATEMOBSTER

oh we have a few tricks up our sleeves as well

Whats the surprise? Bankruptcy?

Free Foam Finger Nights

Originally posted by rainier
My team isn't really gutted. I simply released the guys whose contracts were expiring or they were inactive.

And yeah, I got my work cut out for me. As does any GLB team with a history of losing.


A team doesn't have to be intentionally gutted to be gutted mate. It's more a matter of you having nowhere near enough players of sufficient quality, for whatever reason. I don't generally make distinctions.

Well in that case, I've been gutted for over a year. I was just going along the lines of gutting typically meaning intentional and bad. I just have a hard time signing people because of my shitty record.

Aye, it's tough mate, rebuilding from a crap position is gonna take a lot of work and i'm greatful to my team that i've not had to do too much of it so far. Think there is several kinds of gutting though, and not all are bad. Take AP or to a lesser extent Tucson for example. With AP they decided to start afresh, and had a clearance sale to allow them to rethink their plans, their team was gutted for almost a season but they've now rebuilt. With Tucson they had a few bad seeds that snuck in, and a dodgy QB build that killed last season. QB was retired, bad agents sold on and they've rebuilt this summer.

Getting out of the basement takes some creativity, just interested when your going to find that spark that gets you kickstarted.

You pay too much attention, TtD. You're pretty close to 100%. We've still got some players we'd like to get in, but if the season started today, I think we're solidly in the playoffs. And I think we'd whip the Season 3 version of Tucson pretty severely. We're not where we want to be yet, but we're getting there a piece at a time.

Our coaching staff has been outstanding this offseason. The pursuit has been relentless and luckily I've got a 3 week old in the house so I'm up all nite anyway. I'm sure some of the recruits think I'm a meth freak when the timestamp on their offers is at 3 or 4 in the morning.

You're giving us a little too much credit for improvement I think and I'm glad someone noticed, but if it doesn't show up in the 'W' column, it doesn't mean much..

Not a meth freak? Color me surprised... and disappointed.