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From: snuzers

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2368.8 in reply to 2368.7
Date: 10/24/2007 11:04:21 PM
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So, instead of a guy taking over a team right away, he plays with a "temporary team" until the next season? Does he get all new players with his "permanent" team at season start? Personally, I'd rather take over a 1-16 team and know this was my team and start working on it. I think you are overstating the situation with new teams. Sure, it would be nice to get a team right at the start of a season, maybe. AGain, I would rather get my team half way through, get my players, sell the scrap, and start learning. Then when the next full season starts, I'm ready to go. I know my starters, I know who my trainees are and I start playing.
I think the half or quarter or tenth of a season you play initially is valuable in that you learn the game with your actual team....not a temporay one.

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2368.9 in reply to 2368.8
Date: 10/25/2007 5:13:09 AM
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i don't think he was suggesting temporary players, just a temporary league.

From: jimrtex

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2368.10 in reply to 2368.8
Date: 10/25/2007 7:48:57 AM
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No you would get your players and be placed in a mini-league with other teams that signed up about the same time. You would all be 0-0.

Instead of playing 5 league games and then spending 2 weeks playing scrimmages, you would get 10 league games. If there were 5 league games remaining, there would be 12 game dates (Tu, Th, Sa), so the mini-league might play 3 games, 3 games, 2 games, 2 games, with scrimmage dates the last two weeks. Or if it was simpler to program using the regular schedule, you would simply play the last 8 games of the schedule.

At the end of the season, everyone would be "promoted" into a regular league, with placement based on your actual performance.

From: jimrtex
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2368.11 in reply to 2368.9
Date: 10/25/2007 8:05:47 AM
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What I didn't mention was that this was part of an idea for integrating bot-cleanup into the playoff system, and it would work a little better if bots weren't becoming owned teams during the playoffs, but rather simply to leave them as bots, then moving them down to the bottom division, and then letting new owners replace them after the relegation is finished.

As an alternative, is it possible to start new teams out with a 0-0 record, and only place new teams into each league once per season (assuming that you don't run out of space). These teams would simply play a fragment of the schedule and then go into the playoffs.

So in the USA, you start out refilling the low-numbered series in IV, which should happen pretty quick, and then just keep going on into the higher numbered leagues in IV, and then on to V. If you did get to V.256, then you could restart.