Posted by seble on 12/20/2011 1:25:00 PM (view original):
The fix yesterday only applied to job status, not moving between jobs.  I haven't settled on a date for a change to the job movement process.  Any change would immediately impact all worlds, so I don't want to do that in the middle of the job period for any worlds.

I understand that even lowering school requirements won't make the new system perfect.  Ideally the logic would be smart enough to recognize rebuilding situations and other considerations, so there may be a further update down the road related to that.  But I still believe that once the school requirements are adjusted, the new logic in place now is better than the old system. 

Posted by chapelhillne on 12/20/2011 5:53:00 PM (view original):
In all honesty, I thought the old way was fine. A minor improvement would have been OK with me, but I just think that the new system is way to hard.  But I will reserve judgement until my Delta State team comes up in Smith. last year I was a longshot for Penn State, and I really want that job, and should have another solid year behind me. I would be really disappointed if I don't qualify for some good schools. In my opinion, maybe 10 years is too long. maybe it should be like 6 years or something like that. That might solve a lot of the problems, but still make a change in the right direction.

Posted by jpmills3 on 12/21/2011 7:46:00 AM (view original):
All I know is that I am not qualified for A prestige Alabama in rupp (I am at Tenn, which is also A). That seems laughable to me. In reali life, they would certainly at a minimum have me as a long shot, and I would think a real candidate. Something is definitely amiss. This is AFTER the 19th change.

I keep trying to understand what WIS is thinking. Maybe it's something like, "Our customers asked for this, and we think it's basically right, and so we're going to maintain course. We believe there's a silent majority who like these changes, and once we tweak the new system, even most of those who hate it currently will like it."

But what WIS may not realize is they should be thinking something much closer to, "We have stopped almost all job mobility, effectively pulling the rug out from under many coaches who'd painstakingly planned to move this season, and now they're stuck for the foreseeable future, and we're going to lose many, many customers over this. Whatever code we think is working is simply not working the way many of our customers want, so we're going to scrap it, go back to the original, give season credits to disgruntled coaches, work on something that will work, then test the heck out of it and get lots of pertinent customer feedback, before releasing. If we don't scrap this bad system, it's going to hurt our HD bottom line significantly."

As a businessman myself, I just can't understand the seemingly obstinate committment to the attitude in the 1st paragraph instead of the 2nd. This is actually going to cost WIS revenue, which I'd otherwise assume is their first priority. But it would somehow seem not to be in this case. So very odd.

Posted by seble on 12/20/2011 1:25:00 PM (view original):
The fix yesterday only applied to job status, not moving between jobs.  I haven't settled on a date for a change to the job movement process.  Any change would immediately impact all worlds, so I don't want to do that in the middle of the job period for any worlds.

I understand that even lowering school requirements won't make the new system perfect.  Ideally the logic would be smart enough to recognize rebuilding situations and other considerations, so there may be a further update down the road related to that.  But I still believe that once the school requirements are adjusted, the new logic in place now is better than the old system.