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deh34 · 07-13-2003, 01:02 AM

as a relatively new commish (just about five months now) i actually find it's harder to have a good team. after i put all the time in to run the sim, i have little time left over to actually research my team and make the best decisions the way i would have if i wasn't the commish. my team is definitely worse off.

i do worry a whole lot about appearing honest and owners trust in me. one thing i do feel terrible about is during my first ever off-season i had to process the draft three times and now all the rookies have "drafted in x round in 19xx..." three times in their player histories. i screwed up twice. we had a live draft and i was processing the draft live into the game, but then after the draft i realized that i had to import the team's export files and FA offers (We were running FA and the draft at the same time). all the exports were invalid because of this. so i had to download the last league file and start over. then i fixed that mistake, but i tried to do the rookie trades from the draft pick trades. i released one player so he would be picked up by the team who actually drafted him. i forgot we were in the middle of FA and the other team could not sign him. in fact, the player wanted a big time contract. ugh... so i had to fix that mistake and run the whole thing a third and final time. i felt so terrible about this but i didn't see any other alternative. sometimes what looks like cheating could just be terribly embarasing mistakes!

one thing i do in my league which i think is a great idea (wasn't my idea) - during FA, after every sim - before any other owners export their FA offers, i email a password protected text file with my offers to all the owners. at the end of FA, i email the password out. i definitely like this idea.

also, my team is like 4 games out of first after the first half of the season, but if my team were to ever make it to the playoffs, i would change the password for the league and give it to another owner to run the playoffs.

i was also thinking of forming a review board that gets to veto any of my team moves, but how do you broach the subject "hey guys, in case i cheat...." ya know? doesn't bringing it up make it appear as if you had the desire or thought to cheat?

07-13-2003, 01:02 AM	#26
deh34 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 120	as a relatively new commish (just about five months now) i actually find it's harder to have a good team. after i put all the time in to run the sim, i have little time left over to actually research my team and make the best decisions the way i would have if i wasn't the commish. my team is definitely worse off. i do worry a whole lot about appearing honest and owners trust in me. one thing i do feel terrible about is during my first ever off-season i had to process the draft three times and now all the rookies have "drafted in x round in 19xx..." three times in their player histories. i screwed up twice. we had a live draft and i was processing the draft live into the game, but then after the draft i realized that i had to import the team's export files and FA offers (We were running FA and the draft at the same time). all the exports were invalid because of this. so i had to download the last league file and start over. then i fixed that mistake, but i tried to do the rookie trades from the draft pick trades. i released one player so he would be picked up by the team who actually drafted him. i forgot we were in the middle of FA and the other team could not sign him. in fact, the player wanted a big time contract. ugh... so i had to fix that mistake and run the whole thing a third and final time. i felt so terrible about this but i didn't see any other alternative. sometimes what looks like cheating could just be terribly embarasing mistakes! one thing i do in my league which i think is a great idea (wasn't my idea) - during FA, after every sim - before any other owners export their FA offers, i email a password protected text file with my offers to all the owners. at the end of FA, i email the password out. i definitely like this idea. also, my team is like 4 games out of first after the first half of the season, but if my team were to ever make it to the playoffs, i would change the password for the league and give it to another owner to run the playoffs. i was also thinking of forming a review board that gets to veto any of my team moves, but how do you broach the subject "hey guys, in case i cheat...." ya know? doesn't bringing it up make it appear as if you had the desire or thought to cheat? Last edited by deh34; 07-13-2003 at 01:05 AM.