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Date Posted: 06:23:29 11/26/01 Mon
Author: jcompton
Subject: Re: Spicing things up?
In reply to: Andrew 's message, "Spicing things up?" on 20:51:20 11/22/01 Thu

>It used to be that
>every
>few days there would be 'press release' from one team
>or
>another, stating how badly/well they were playing and
>how
>so-and-so was up for trade/knighthood.

Heheh.

A lot of what you're lamenting can be tracked directly to Mario. His bombastic style encouraged other people to write just to try to keep up. I admit that my production has fallen off but I do try to put together a London report with reasonable frequency.

JFF, my advice is not to rely on anybody else to use your "Whispers" article. Just submit a report to Paul directly. If he doesn't put it up the next time he updates the site, harass him. I've been doing it for four years now, it works pretty well. :)

But, in my defence, I did write game
>reports
>for two seasons (for which no-one but Mario and Paul
>ever
>seemed grateful).

Sorry, I liked them too.


>So, how can we spice things up? A couple of ideas :-
>
>1. the home GM in every game has to write a game
>report, or they start forfeiting draft-picks or
>free-agent allocations.
>If the reports are biased, all the better!

I sort of like the idea of requiring the host team to do something of this sort, but the truth is that not everybody feels comfortable writing like this.

>2. Go back to one game every two weeks to give GMs a
>chance to write 'press releases' and make more trades
>and
>roster changes. Not sure about this one!

While I will admit that it was easier to write things like mid-season reports when we had two weeks between games, I prefer the pacing of one week. Perhaps the answer there is to take two weeks after Week 7 to give me a chance to write a mid-season report!

>3. A supplementary draft in which only the more active
>GMs can take part.
>
>I know that being active in the league takes time, and
>we
>all have others to do (I hope), but the league runs the
>risk of stagnating if people start losing interest.

Well, yeah, but we run the risk of stagnating if we sack half the GMs, too. I don't like any plan that would directly make a weak team weaker, and by and large the less-active GMs have weak teams (last year's Austria was an exception to the rule, although it is true that unfortunately not all active GMs have strong teams.)

Really, if people just want to yell at me personally, I'll probably respond by writing more. :)

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  • Re: Spicing things up? -- Marco, 08:11:40 11/26/01 Mon
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