Posted by MikeT23 on 12/19/2014 1:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jibe on 12/19/2014 12:57:00 PM (view original):
I don't think there really is any easy solution for HBD. But what is tried and true to what does work is polling owners well before the season ends on who will return or not and getting a classified ad up and running by the end of the regular season. Far too many worlds roll over and a week later they are just getting an ad up. I have also read many a coaches chat where almost a week after rollover has occured that the commish will state something like, " I want to give the old owners another 2 or 3 days to reup before I get an ad up". Guess what dude? I and 25 others want to get playing again and you have yet to post a classified.

Also having a firm MWR is a good thing to abide by. For those owners that don't want one they have public worlds that they can play in.

But interest in HBD is waning. It is for me as well. I will be running 2 or 3 teams in the coming year as opposed to the 5 I ran this past year.

This?

I won't blame commishes for failure but there are few easy steps to follow(and they're not time consuming):

1. treat everyone fairly
2. put the best interests of the world first
3. find out who's staying/leaving sooner rather than later
4. start recruiting early even if you don't know if you have openings
5. remove absentee owners promptly
6. enforce rules evenly(or create rules that the world wants)
7. vet new owners.  Check their record, ask someone you recognize about them in a world they're in, etc, etc

None of this takes a great deal of time.   And you'll find that the commishes of the "good" worlds do every one of these.  And, if you don't have that sort of time, pass it on to someone who does.

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/19/2014 1:06:00 PM (view original):
And I get the "past records" thing.    I don't know if it's exactly like that for me but, when I draft/sign a guy, I like to follow his career.   There's something kinda cool, in a nerdy way, of drafting/signing an 18 y/o and having him develop/play like you envisioned.   My two favorite players right now:

Hardball Dynasty – Fantasy Baseball Sim Games - Player Profile: Kevin Ryu  2nd highest IFA bonus I've given out( Hardball Dynasty – Fantasy Baseball Sim Games - Player Profile: Carlos Moya now holds that title but he's only in his 2nd season).    Had to find a place to play him and "invented" the C in RF to get his bat in my line-up.

Hardball Dynasty – Fantasy Baseball Sim Games - Player Profile: Jimmy Powell  #3 pick and the best player I've ever had. 

It would suck to lose their history.

Posted by jibe on 12/19/2014 12:24:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mchales_army on 12/19/2014 10:14:00 AM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/19/2014 9:54:00 AM (view original):
I've not been thru one.   What made it a bad experience?

What made it a bad experience is that his team won 100+ 5 seasons in a row pre merger, and now they are barely a .500 club.
They are old and salary is high, but it's the merger. THAT's what caused it.

Interestingly the team with the best record in that world is in his division and just finished up a rebuild. That same team finished 4th in the division last season.

Sure there's no correlation there either and it is strictly a case of "mergers suck".

So you can speak for me? STFU

To answer mike first of all due to the merger I wasn't able to set my budgets according to what it was the last season in Banks. 

I am also one who enjoys the history of my teams. The player stats are gone and ratings. All history that is tied up with the players is gone. With the teams as well. There is also no HOF and there won't be for many seasons to come. This is a huge part of my enjoyment of the game. The players that I had from pre merger honestly do not even feel like my own.

So hence I rarely check on this team anymore and am making zero effort in day to day of the team.

But really the reason is that my team is old.....

I just saw that you said kind of the same thing in WC of your newly merged world, (merging sucks, this will be my first and last season here) and when owners asked why, you didn't bother to elaborate.

I figured if you wouldn't bother answering the owners in your own world you probably wouldn't here either. I see I was wrong on that.


Budgets were explained to every owner pre-merger. They stay the same as they were pre merger, but if you try to adjust them they revert to 10 (+/-4). I try to make sure everyone is aware of this, but still each merger there are owners who forget or didn't read my sitemail or whatever the reason, mess up their budgeting. that can be frustrating  and I can certainly understand that.

As far as history goes, I am confused as to why this is an issue. I mean I get that many of us enjoy that aspect of the game, but again this was something that was explained to everyone pre merger. It shouldn't have come as a shock. Bottom line to me is that while history is nice it grows old when there is no future. If your world has sat for 4 months how many times can you look at all the historical data? Nobody WANTS to merge, but it beats sitting idle for months on end, and that's the decision many owners are faced with.

I have a follow up question for jibe. Since you said you'd never merge again what would be your stance exactly?
 
Would you be the guy who says I hate the idea of merging but if the rest of you want to merge I'll just pull my team out, or would you be the guy who loves the history of the world so much you will try to block the rest from merging?