Bring Market Forces to Bear Against Tanking & Negligence
Tanking and GM negligence are still two potentially world-destroying crises in HBD. One world I'm in is in crisis even after posing a rule (with very problematic loopholes, as ajudicated by a commish) that GM's are subject to banning after two consecutive seasons below 100 wins.
What can help? How about more, good simulation?
WIS may wish to create a few metrics (two seasons below 100 is just one idea) that, just as in real live baseball, could mean that problematic GM'ing would reduce the next season's available budget, due to lack of fan support.
Apparent tanking and negligence means fewer TV viewers, fewer radio listeners, fewer butts in seats, fewer cups of beer, and fewer hot dogs sold.
This shouldn't reduce a healthy power of banning a GM that is significantly harming the quality of play, though. And, if a franchise is given up or if the GM is banned, perhaps that penalty could be reduced, but only by half (the new GM still gets the low draft picks, after all).
Arguments that there are no perfect set of metrics to use as criteria are hereby preemptively labeled as silly. There are good ones and some are being used. Making them clear and spelling them out to GM's is in itself, a boon, too. It would just be up to the skill of WIS staff, perhaps with our support, to come up with them.
6/26/2011 3:55 PM (edited)