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Old 10-17-2013, 12:40 PM   #10
Brummer's_Stealing_Home!
Minors (Rookie Ball)
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 31
I have a dynamically evolving league, and am not far enough in it to know how well I like the offense/defense aspects. . . I suspect that I will like it.

As for the business aspects, I'm pretty meh on them. A couple of DL changes from 15 days to 17 days and then to 24 days over the course of 7 seasons was more annoying than interesting. Arbitration eligibility got dropped from 3 years to 2 years also. Expansion 10 seasons into the league was unanticipated, but it fit into my plans - instead of taking the "worst" team after simming that 10 season pre-history as I had planned, I just took one of the expansion teams. Even with that, I would have probably preferred to put them in different divisions, but that's small beer. All of this happened in the first ten years of the league's existence, mind you.

I would get pretty annoyed going from a 162 game schedule to a 165 game schedule too, although I've never had it happen.

I was unaware of the ability to turn things on or off on a case-by-case basis, but I wish that I had. My advice would be to limit the categories of change by turning off those things that you would not want to change. For me, things like season length would be a bugaboo, given the difficulty in comparing records and the like, and now that we have expanded once, I would also put expansion on the 'no' list. DL length changes are kinda dumb, too, IMHO and feel artificial. Ditto some of the more detail-y details of the CBA. Your mileage may vary.

It would be nice to have the annual changes be a yes/no decision that you could make as the Commissioner, if just to winnow out some of the more ridiculous and/or harmful ones.

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