A retorical question indeed!
One of our league GM's asked me tonight, if our league was hyped on various OOTP message boards. My answer was "not really" and I also told him, it really doesn't need to be. Why? Well because we have quitely assembled a solid team of GM's over the past year (6 sim seasons), weeding out GM's who would disappear or would be just plain inactive.
I encouraged taking on newbie GM's which has worked out very well. Now we have a excellent group of guys who are active traders, messageboard posters and article writers. Over the past year we have added utilities such as Coranto and BOSI and I am now in the works of creating team history pages.
No one ever complains and everyone is great to chat with. I don't police the number of times people post, how many times they submit lineups. As long as they take care of their roster, and I mean contract extensions, sign FA's here and there, and participate somewhat in the Ammy draft. I believe that is the key to our success, and maybe a model in which other startup leagues can follow.
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