I'm fascinated by the idea of promotion/relegation leagues so the more the better I say as I think more people trying them out can only help spur Markus into providing more support for them.
I like the idea of the regular season champ is the champ period, but I do also like playoffs for that climax aspect of it. What I originally wanted to do with the KBL was celebrate the regular season champ just as much as the regular season champ (kind of how the NHL, I think, used to try to do with the President's Trophy), but somehow it never happened. It's tough to beat the thrill of a playoff run. So why deny yourself of it, I guess. Still, there's something pure about crowning the regular season first place finisher the champ.
You mention no playoffs, but then say you want a league wide playoff though. I don't understand what you mean by that.
As for the co-commish thing, if you're talking alternating simming co-commishes, I'm not big on it at all. Yeah, it may sound like a great idea (it'd certainly be nice not to have to spend so much time running a league), but in the end I just don't think it works well. You know how they say the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing in government? Well, that's how I see "co-commishes". Maybe it works for some, but I haven't witnessed it first-hand myself yet. Try imagining having two Presidents of the United States with equal power and responsibilities. I just don't see it working.
What I think does work well is having a commish and a sort of assistant who does a lot of the non-sim stuff. I'm the latter in the CBL and I think it works fairly well. Chris runs all the sims so he always knows what's going on with everything and I run around trying to do as much of everything else as I can to make it as easy as possible on him. For
that to work, however, I think you really need the assistant to be someone who just goes for it while you also probably need a commish who is willing to give the assistant the freedom to do a lot of stuff. To continue with the analogies, I seem to recall the Romans doing something like this and it working well where one head had all the duties at home and the other had all the duties away at war. While it may work for us, though, I'm sure it wouldn't work for some, if not most.
Any other advice? Yeah, as long as you have a passion for it, go for it!
