Just noticing...

Critical news Aug 2011 
TOC update Jan 2012, assuming 2012
GOW, August 2011
No release notes for >90 days
Future of WIS article Sep 2011, assuming 2011

Kinda feel like a mouse roaming through an abandoned house. 

Is this site still actively managed?

I may win something that nets me some money that I will use for teams, but I will not dip into my wallet again until I see some interest shown by admin.

Four years ago I left a thriving Live community that had a "coming soon" update. I recently joined a Live league and found that they have changed NOTHING.  You think it is cobwebs on the Sim side, it is even worse over there. 

They seem to be intent on turning a Tiffany's into a Woolworth's. I enjoy the game, but it is offensive to get so little support from those who want me to spend money here.

The baseball sim, at least, is still entertaining/challenging (themes and progs, anyway) although the interest level and owner participation numbers are slowly dwindling.  Some of the other sims, such as hockey, are seriously dying on the vine from a lack of any kind of update or change.

Something has to be done soon or else people will take their $$$ elsewhere.  I really don't understand FS's reasoning.

Sorry to mix politics with this game we love, but it may useful this time: 

I believe in self-management of the commons - meaning collective goods that are widely used by a community of people who have a common interest in the good management of an important resource are best managed democratically and cooperatively by those using these resources. The alternative is either corporate monopoly, state bureaucracy or the "tragedy of the commons" when everyone tries only to take what they can from a common resource without taking responsibility for its management and maintenance. 

Here I have found a community of people with extraordinary capabilities and individual and collective intelligence. We all share a love of baseball and this game in SIM form. People take the time to inform each other of options, possibilities, best practice and so forth. Exactly the qualities needed for successful collective self-management of an enterprise. 

Maybe we should petition Fox Sports that if they have lost interest in managing this site, they should turn its ownership over to a trust of those playing on the site, to be managed by an elected committee from among us with an advisory "council of elders" from among the Hall of Famers. This group could hire technical staff to deal with the algorithmic adjustments needed, the programming and other maintenance and update, in consultation with full membership of those who have played a certain number of seasons. 


Works at Mondragon, the huge cooperative enterprise in Spain. Or here is another model:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMZ1u__LUc