Is this place dying? Topic

I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



8/20/2024 12:25 AM
scattergories, which is addictively fun, is down to one open spot
chewy has an interesting league theme that is more than half full
8/20/2024 9:11 AM
Posted by copernicus on 8/20/2024 9:11:00 AM (view original):
scattergories, which is addictively fun, is down to one open spot
chewy has an interesting league theme that is more than half full
Thanks, but I don't want crazy gimmicks like scattergories. I'm also tired of the same old 15-20 players who dominate almost every league here. I'd love to start a progressive league that runs from 1952 all the way through, but of course they only offer 24 team leagues here, so that's not possible. In 1952 the NBA had 10 teams, and they went down to 9 at one point, so they would have to offer an 8 team league for this to be possible.

They could have 2 divisions with 4 teams each. You play the 3 teams in your division 14 times each (42) and the 4 teams in the other division 10 times each (40) to have an 82 game schedule. Then the 2 division winners and the next 2 best records make the playoffs. Or it could be the top 2 teams in each division get in and then the division winners play the second place team from the opposite division in the first round. Starting in the1968-69 season when the NBA went to 14 teams this league could go to 12 teams. I think they probable should have a full new draft then rather than bring in 4 expansion teams all at once, but the league could decide on that.

The 12 team leagues would play the 3 teams in their own division 14 times each (42) and the other 8 teams 5 times each (40) for 82 games. They could use a playoff format like the current MLB format. Three division winners and 3 wild cards, and the top 2 division winners get a bye in the first round.

But none of these ideas are possible as long as all we have are phucking 24 team leagues.



8/20/2024 11:11 AM
Also, they would have let you play the early seasons without 3 point shots. There should be options available for league to play with different rules than today's rules. In the 50s and 60s they had one shot fouls and other things that are not there anymore.
8/20/2024 2:13 PM
Posted by savoybg on 8/20/2024 12:25:00 AM (view original):
I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



Could join either of the banned leagues!

Literally the reason they exist.

The banned season league just posted if you want to join. It might be some familiar players but definitely some seasons you never would normally see.

And next season of the OG banned league I think would be perfect for you.

For example: The current leader in MVP voting is Spencer Haywood AND that team has the best record. The next two up in the MVP voting is Tracy McGrady and Walt Bellamy.
8/21/2024 1:36 PM (edited)
Solid idea about less than 24 teams, savoy

im still longing to make a league where Drazen Petrovic is MVP
8/21/2024 1:40 PM
Posted by Uofa2 on 8/21/2024 1:40:00 PM (view original):
Solid idea about less than 24 teams, savoy

im still longing to make a league where Drazen Petrovic is MVP
Unfortunately the dopes who make these decisions here are not even working on making smaller size leagues available. I just got this back from an inquiry I made.

Hello SavoyGB,

Although there are future plans for different scheduling formats, as of right now they are not in active development. There should be some bigger news we are hoping to share in the coming weeks, and with that will likely be sharing the development timeline for features across games.

Regards,
-Chris


By the way, I can barely get this message typed because of the phucking popup ads that constantly are appearing here.

Whoever is running things here REALLY Has his head up his ***.




8/21/2024 2:19 PM
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 1:36:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/20/2024 12:25:00 AM (view original):
I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



Could join either of the banned leagues!

Literally the reason they exist.

The banned season league just posted if you want to join. It might be some familiar players but definitely some seasons you never would normally see.

And next season of the OG banned league I think would be perfect for you.

For example: The current leader in MVP voting is Spencer Haywood AND that team has the best record. The next two up in the MVP voting is Tracy McGrady and Walt Bellamy.
I've seen the banned league, but it seems like an awful lot of work to me to have to go through a huge list of banned players to check for every player that you might want to use. Plus that league allows multiple teams to use the same player, right? I only want to play in leagues where a player can only be on one team. The baseball game I am playing now only allows a player to be on one team in any league. They also have different size leagues with 8 teams, 12 teams, 16 teams or 24 teams.
8/21/2024 2:24 PM
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 2:24:00 PM (view original):
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 1:36:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/20/2024 12:25:00 AM (view original):
I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



Could join either of the banned leagues!

Literally the reason they exist.

The banned season league just posted if you want to join. It might be some familiar players but definitely some seasons you never would normally see.

And next season of the OG banned league I think would be perfect for you.

For example: The current leader in MVP voting is Spencer Haywood AND that team has the best record. The next two up in the MVP voting is Tracy McGrady and Walt Bellamy.
I've seen the banned league, but it seems like an awful lot of work to me to have to go through a huge list of banned players to check for every player that you might want to use. Plus that league allows multiple teams to use the same player, right? I only want to play in leagues where a player can only be on one team. The baseball game I am playing now only allows a player to be on one team in any league. They also have different size leagues with 8 teams, 12 teams, 16 teams or 24 teams.
With that I find I can't have my cake and eat it too.

The only Idea I could think of is to have a banned draft league, which is awesome, but doesn't have a lot of staying power.

I have thought about a draft where the first round is everyone picking players to ban, then the 2nd round is people picking their players, then alternating it like that, or something similar to that but that as a commissioner would be a pain to keep up with AND normal drafts take a ridiculous amount of time to complete as is and that would take twice the normal amount of time.

I like the idea of them adding flexibility to the amount of players in a league but I have found it to be more productive to use the system we got because I have no control if they add that feature.
8/21/2024 2:54 PM
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 2:55:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 2:24:00 PM (view original):
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 1:36:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/20/2024 12:25:00 AM (view original):
I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



Could join either of the banned leagues!

Literally the reason they exist.

The banned season league just posted if you want to join. It might be some familiar players but definitely some seasons you never would normally see.

And next season of the OG banned league I think would be perfect for you.

For example: The current leader in MVP voting is Spencer Haywood AND that team has the best record. The next two up in the MVP voting is Tracy McGrady and Walt Bellamy.
I've seen the banned league, but it seems like an awful lot of work to me to have to go through a huge list of banned players to check for every player that you might want to use. Plus that league allows multiple teams to use the same player, right? I only want to play in leagues where a player can only be on one team. The baseball game I am playing now only allows a player to be on one team in any league. They also have different size leagues with 8 teams, 12 teams, 16 teams or 24 teams.
With that I find I can't have my cake and eat it too.

The only Idea I could think of is to have a banned draft league, which is awesome, but doesn't have a lot of staying power.

I have thought about a draft where the first round is everyone picking players to ban, then the 2nd round is people picking their players, then alternating it like that, or something similar to that but that as a commissioner would be a pain to keep up with AND normal drafts take a ridiculous amount of time to complete as is and that would take twice the normal amount of time.

I like the idea of them adding flexibility to the amount of players in a league but I have found it to be more productive to use the system we got because I have no control if they add that feature.
I tried to start the Under $7 million Dollar League, where any player who has any season where he makes $7 million or more is not eligible. Only players whose highest salaried season is under $7 million would be eligible. Many players who are not normally used would be in the league, but I only got 8 owners.

COMMITED MEMBERS
1 - SavoyBG
2 - beloud
3 - riftonapple
4 - poppapomp
5 - OG76
6 - Redbooda
7 - BenJoker
8 - Poddy

If these Whatif guys would come through with what they have promised for years now and make smaller size leagues possible, we could have an 8 team league. It would be so easy for them to do. Two 4 team divisions where you play the 3 teams in your division 14 times (42 games) and the 4 teams in the other divisions 10 times (40 games) for an 82 game schedule.

But no, only 24 team leagues are possible so this idea went down the toilet.

CLEARLY they would have a load of more leagues going if they would make 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, and 16 team leagues available.
8/21/2024 3:15 PM (edited)
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 3:15:00 PM (view original):
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 2:55:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 2:24:00 PM (view original):
Posted by samuelyork93 on 8/21/2024 1:36:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/20/2024 12:25:00 AM (view original):
I only see one thread here that has had any posts in the past 3 weeks. I'd like to play a season, but it's just too tough to get 24 teams together. Whatif has been telling us for many years now that they will add leagues that will be smaller. That is really needed. They need to allow 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, 16 team leagues, etc. If they finally do that there will be a lot more action around.

I have no interest in an open league with clones and the same 15-20 players that everybody uses over and over.



Could join either of the banned leagues!

Literally the reason they exist.

The banned season league just posted if you want to join. It might be some familiar players but definitely some seasons you never would normally see.

And next season of the OG banned league I think would be perfect for you.

For example: The current leader in MVP voting is Spencer Haywood AND that team has the best record. The next two up in the MVP voting is Tracy McGrady and Walt Bellamy.
I've seen the banned league, but it seems like an awful lot of work to me to have to go through a huge list of banned players to check for every player that you might want to use. Plus that league allows multiple teams to use the same player, right? I only want to play in leagues where a player can only be on one team. The baseball game I am playing now only allows a player to be on one team in any league. They also have different size leagues with 8 teams, 12 teams, 16 teams or 24 teams.
With that I find I can't have my cake and eat it too.

The only Idea I could think of is to have a banned draft league, which is awesome, but doesn't have a lot of staying power.

I have thought about a draft where the first round is everyone picking players to ban, then the 2nd round is people picking their players, then alternating it like that, or something similar to that but that as a commissioner would be a pain to keep up with AND normal drafts take a ridiculous amount of time to complete as is and that would take twice the normal amount of time.

I like the idea of them adding flexibility to the amount of players in a league but I have found it to be more productive to use the system we got because I have no control if they add that feature.
I tried to start the Under $7 million Dollar League, where any player who has any season where he makes $7 million or more is not eligible. Only players whose highest salaried season is under $7 million would be eligible. Many players who are not normally used would be in the league, but I only got 8 owners.

COMMITED MEMBERS
1 - SavoyBG
2 - beloud
3 - riftonapple
4 - poppapomp
5 - OG76
6 - Redbooda
7 - BenJoker
8 - Poddy

If these Whatif guys would come through with what they have promised for years now and make smaller size leagues possible, we could have an 8 team league. It would be so easy for them to do. Two 4 team divisions where you play the 3 teams in your division 14 times (42 games) and the 4 teams in the other divisions 10 times (40 games) for an 82 game schedule.

But no, only 24 team leagues are possible so this idea went down the toilet.

CLEARLY they would have a load of more leagues going if they would make 8 team leagues, 12 team leagues, and 16 team leagues available.
They. Don't. Care. That's it. There's nothing else. They. Don't. Care. They aren't going to change anything, or improve anything, or take any bright idea and put it into use. The best you can do is try to find value in what we have here. Unfortunately, you burned the bridge you once had to the DDL league, which is the only league here that resembles what you want.
8/21/2024 3:24 PM
I’d be into that league, savoy

sign me up
8/21/2024 3:49 PM
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 2:19:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Uofa2 on 8/21/2024 1:40:00 PM (view original):
Solid idea about less than 24 teams, savoy

im still longing to make a league where Drazen Petrovic is MVP
Unfortunately the dopes who make these decisions here are not even working on making smaller size leagues available. I just got this back from an inquiry I made.

Hello SavoyGB,

Although there are future plans for different scheduling formats, as of right now they are not in active development. There should be some bigger news we are hoping to share in the coming weeks, and with that will likely be sharing the development timeline for features across games.

Regards,
-Chris


By the way, I can barely get this message typed because of the phucking popup ads that constantly are appearing here.

Whoever is running things here REALLY Has his head up his ***.




We have told you that this has been asked and answered a million times. This has been discussed 20+ years. It isn't going to happen.

Play or don't play. Just quit complaining.
9/1/2024 6:52 PM
Posted by PBandJ on 9/1/2024 6:52:00 PM (view original):
Posted by savoybg on 8/21/2024 2:19:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Uofa2 on 8/21/2024 1:40:00 PM (view original):
Solid idea about less than 24 teams, savoy

im still longing to make a league where Drazen Petrovic is MVP
Unfortunately the dopes who make these decisions here are not even working on making smaller size leagues available. I just got this back from an inquiry I made.

Hello SavoyGB,

Although there are future plans for different scheduling formats, as of right now they are not in active development. There should be some bigger news we are hoping to share in the coming weeks, and with that will likely be sharing the development timeline for features across games.

Regards,
-Chris


By the way, I can barely get this message typed because of the phucking popup ads that constantly are appearing here.

Whoever is running things here REALLY Has his head up his ***.




We have told you that this has been asked and answered a million times. This has been discussed 20+ years. It isn't going to happen.

Play or don't play. Just quit complaining.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. If we can get 30, 40, 50 customers to all join this thread and demand options for smaller leagues they will have to do it. It's certainly not gonna happen if we stop complaining.
9/2/2024 9:41 AM
We have all been asking for things like this for years. We’re not going to suddenly rally around the least active + most annoying user for a new campaign, especially since there are other features that 95% of us would rather WIS adds before smaller leagues.

Another idea is that you could literally do ANYTHING to become a part of our community, like join a league.

There’s one posted in the forums right now that doesn’t allow any players from the 2000s. It sounds like a league that matches most of your criteria. You should join it. You would make entrant #21/24.
9/2/2024 9:56 AM (edited)
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