Posted by Scotb50 on 5/3/2021 10:23:00 PM (view original):
I'm confident we can easily get 32 owners to commit to a newly formed league. When I posted this a couple months ago many said they would. So, assuming there are 32 owners, what's the process? I'd love to be in a league where owners haven't has so many seasons to separate themselves from the pack
This is a good thought in theory.
In practice, however, this is far from the truth.
A. A new world usually results in many many contentious trades in the first hand full of seasons and this leads to high turnover rates;
B. The same separation of the pack happens in New worlds, but it is typically worse. The championship teams in New worlds win 115 + games a season and the bad teams win 45 games and there is a very small middle class;
C. Starting a new World or merging two worlds easily allows shady owners to use an alias and trade with their alias team to build a quick juggernaut. Established Worlds with long tenure and only a few openings each season usually allow less opportunity for things like this to happen;
D. Finally, new, merged or young worlds usually have some type of differential. In an established World, any veteran owner can forecast his team's win total and usually get very close to predicting it with a 15 game margin of error. However, in a new, merged or young World, the margin of error is much higher -- likely around 25 games. I don't know about you guys, but it frustrate the living **** out of me to think I have an 85 win team and they only win 60 games.