Posted by donaldjl on 3/30/2018 2:05:00 PM (view original):
Back in the day of bigbuzz and sikboy21 (among others I can't recall at the momemt), we had extravagantly mastered theme leagues which would cause minor brain damage during the draft process. We also had a slew of users willing to subject themselves to these leagues time and again.
Sadly, SLH was left floundering for whatever reason, and people stopped playing. Now we have theme leagues that are mediocre as a challenge (no offense to those creating leagues now), thus resulting in stale, cookie-cutter type leagues, and not enough people willing to keep coming back for the same thing.
It's a real shame what happened to a once populous and active community here.
I could make a theme league real nasty to draft from, but people like two things: Variety (meaning fewer of the cookie cutters) and simplicity. Some themes; I take a look and just say FORGET IT, because although some twists and conditions are good, drafting should be FUN, not tedious
Another thing I could do is just block out Bossy Kurri Gretzky and Mario, and a few others.. but leave a few of those in .. at less than say 8 million, and allow just ONE winger over 20% and also limit centers to say 81 D if over 6.5 million or so. That would allow Savard, and the D 92 Adam Oates, or Peter Mcnab at his D 90 rate.. but some would opt for a lower D rated C like Stastny or Nilsson, and remember just one forward can be over 20% so maybe that might fit the bill better? Limit the defencemen to 74 and goalies to 3 million and maybe 89.7%... and let 'er roll
3/30/2018 9:31 PM (edited)