oz! hey buddy.

Quote: Originally posted by toddcommish on 12/17/2009Hmmm, Arlen...  did you pick up on that ironic tone?

I think he should read the posts better.

Quote: Originally posted by taz21 on 12/17/2009I assume you're aware that you know if you're in the lead or behind on a coach, and if you follow for more than 1 cycle, you know if you're going back and forth and could offer another coach just to ensure that you had quality coaches in rookie ball.  This isn't a "I couldn't make the final cycle" problem, its an "I failed to properly prepare" issue.  Aside from WIS telling us they were going to do this to us a month or so ago.

For the record, I did the most competitive thing. I bid high numbers consistently on the highest FI's available, up through the second to last round.

Quote: Originally posted by toddcommish on 12/17/2009Why wouldn't everyone do that then, and effectively make the coach hiring process year-round?

Because they want the best coaches, of course.

Anyway, readers who were not aware of the severity of WIS' punishment of their paying customers in this regard has been warned. And yes, for reasons such as this (and other tendences to want to control team management against the wishes of their cash cow customers who are playing to have them simulate a game framework in which they make their own reasonable decisions) I still think that WIS staff are suspect of being... members of the Democratic Party.

Better disregard their own warning never to give away your password, if you find someone trustworthy to bid that last round for you.

Or alternatively, plan out your coach hiring with some degree of foresight instead of trying to cheese the system by letting Simmy hire coaches for you that were unsigned but coaching at three levels higher the prior season, since WIS fixed that particular loophole (which they announced). Either/or.

Disclaimer: unlike the previous analogy, however, WIS has overall, done a great job.

Quote: Originally posted by cjlancaster on 12/17/2009Or alternatively, plan out your coach hiring with some degree of foresight instead of trying to cheese the system by letting Simmy hire coaches for you that were unsigned but coaching at three levels higher the prior season, since WIS fixed that particular loophole (which they announced). Either/or. 

Please comment on the actual subject matter, thanks.

I see no problem with allowing teams to have the best available player for that level/position. If other teams that signed a coach wanted that coach they would of taken them, so it's not like they are getting a good coach. What I do not wish to see is a coach drop down from a higher level and sign with that team.

What happens if 4 teams don't get a coach? And the best available have core ratings of 81, 80, 78 and 53?

just have the coach hiring process not end.

Don't you think some owners wouldn't hire coaches at certain levels?

Some probably wouldn't, yeah, but hopefully not in a world I'm in. And if it does, maybe it's a measure of that world.

If it happens in any world, do you think that's good for HBD as a whole?