Hi Wagner,
While the competition is interesting, as I stated just before this season started, I'm honoring my commitment to this season to keep it fair for all involved and then I'll step out to create space for someone else.
I remembered that. It's just that sometimes people change their mind over time, and I wanted to give that an opportunity and not make the "negative" decision on your behalf but instead ask from you directly (if you still have the same opinion).
The admin requirements (which, as you often point out, are low as you are doing the vast majority of it) frustrate me. Like the scores on our individual posts. I haven't been updating my post as by the time I get on I usually can see the other coach (or someone) has and you have the result, so it seems pointless writing it somewhere else.
Like you probably noticed, based on earlier comments (at the beginning of Season 1) and recent comment of/discussion with MrJ,
we/I have now changed the practice in terms of writing down scores so that you don't have to send a separate post for each match if you don't want to (I will still likely keep doing that myself), but you still need to write score of the match in your box score post. This eliminates one layer of security, but it still leaves 1 added layer left. Like I said before: scores and box score links are the key things in any league, and they should be secured and readily visible at least in two different places. This current practice ensures that.
Layers of security are an important thing in HGL, as it's "a manually operated league". Have you guys noticed, that there's about 2-2,5 millimeters (0,1 inches!) empty space between "nice and sensibly" next to each other positioned Edit and Delete-links?
What if I sometimes accidentally delete that (or any other important) post when I intend to edit it instead? Yes, some other layers of security may (or may not) be in place for that, but I'm just wondering that do you see my point now in more clear manner?
I do try to optimize things myself as well, and frankly I don't always succeed at that alone in an optimal manner, so feedback is much appreciated. But please remember, that I never make people jump, just because it'd be fun for me to make people jump/see that happening - there's a reason for practically everything.
To get back to previous issue, one could claim that they're already secured behind your box score posts anyway, which is true, but I think that's the kind of effort level (pressing space bar and inputing 5-7 characters to a post) that's required, that I find it unlikely that it would prove to be too much of an obstacle to any serious manager (and naturally, I do consider you being very serious manager, being a reputable national team coach and so on) to do this quite regularly. Like you all have (hopefully) noted, links to your box score posts have been provided in Official Thread, so they're quite easy to reach too.
But I don't want to be pedantic about the details so I'll retire after this season, continue being a home grown team for my own reasons and let someone else enjoy the league.
Best wishes to all.
Even though you will be leaving HGL after Season 1,
I nevertheless also kindly ask you to update your season scores to your own box score posts, here: (326590.56) as that's the minimum required level of work from "regular managers", thank you. Please also at the same time remove an extra space bar stroke on your Round 3 and Round 7 matches to make the match links functional.
Anyway, it seems you've made up your mind, so I thank you for your opinions/feedback, and especially for participation and willingness to reply to occassional BBMails and forum posts, and for participating. And let's not forget that season is still not over, and you're actually a very strong medal contender this season!
Last edited by Wagner at 5/13/2025 8:08:58 AM