I just wanna say thanks for everyone who contributed to the post, and to what I had to say, and the responces. Even though I didnt start this thread (and to holyroller, I don't know how I steal threads, but i'll just play along) I think I have learned alot. I'm not saying that I'm going to change the league dramatically, But I will make some changes on how I act and react to such things, and some things I wanna do.
I have noticed many people who clicked the link about the whacko who wanted to start some ****, also browsed around the board a little bit, which is todally fine for me. If you did though, you would of ran into a thread I recently started on some ideas I have given to the league. If you havent seen, I'll just supply them for you on this. Fell free to give your comments on this. Here is the link to the site if you wanna look at it first hand
http://usbl.rickherrera.net/board/ik...=ST;f=11;t=315
Here are a few things that I have thought about for a while, but have not yet placed on paper. So here we go.
I am thinking about having "vultures" for the league. For anyone who doesnt know about this, these are people who not really a GM of the league, but just people who hang out on the board, talk, and join in discussions, in hope that when a GM spot opens up, they can fill in.
I am thinking about enforcing a salary cap for the league. This will help teams like Tennessee or Portland with some much needed players. I'm thinking about having the dollar amound reasonably low, around the 70 million dollar mark. It will also spread out the talent, and give more teams a better shot at least a division title.
Expansion. This was talked about earier in the season, and I think this is a good time to discuss about it once again. I have decided to put off any expansion for the time being, but I'm looking into setting an expansion date to the end of the 2004 season. I'm only looking into expanding one league, and to decide that, the winner of the 2003 all star game will be the league where the two expansion teams will join with.
Amateur League. It has been a thought in my head since the "new" XBL days, but I really never came to it. I am thinking about adding a college type of a league, where amateur players from all around the world would compete in low profiile cities (Bismark, Whitehorse, Akron for starters) in hopes to be a part of the USBL. What I have been thinking about is because ootp4 will not allow me to import players into a amatrue draft, to let them go straight into free agency.
Winter Ball. I have wrote up a format for what would happend. What I wanna do is that Teams will be able to submit one pitcher and one positional player to winter ball. They will be imported into the game, and will sim and have box scores, ect... If the players has good stats, not only their talent would increse, but there is a small chance that their ratings may change as well. We would have 4 teams, play them in the cold wilderness of Canada, and let them freeze to death
Divisions. I talked to a commissioner of another league that runs a simular 20 team league, but has 3 divisions in both of the leagues. I'm thinking about doing the same.
note- this was copy - pasted directly from the message board. To further know about whats going on, here you go.
usbl.rickherrera.net
(p.s. the person who hosts the server, Rick Herrera has vanished without a trace, and i'm getting kinda worried. If you have some extra space to hosts one more league, send me a PM or e-mail me
