Quote:Originally posted by JKortesi81@Mar 20 2017, 09:23 AM


Would it be easier to get you an assistant? We could create a job where someone ("Assistant TO the Regional Simmer") could just be the guy/girl who updates the sim file and then just send you the file.

That way, when you're ready to sim, you have it all set to go. Saves you time in that retrospect. I know you're busy, and simming isn't always the easiest job, so giving someone a job that helps you seems, i dont know, smart? Unless it makes your life harder somehow.

It wouldn't work for this. No matter what, people are going to be pissy about the time in the playoffs. So we cut out updates between rounds to limit the time because the majority of the site is not in playoffs and gets bored and then the ones in the playoffs feel gypped even though it isn't actually a big deal. If we have an assistant do the updates, we still then have to allow for time for updaters to get the updates in. I could do the updates, but that still adds a day because we have to wait to coordinate the updaters and it just isn't worth it. That's where the extra days come from, PBPs take time, when they take that time, I can't reveal the results. When the results are finally live, then updaters have to find out who can update the teams that need done, then actually get it done by a deadline time that I have to decide.

So basically, having an assistant doesn't help at all here. What would help is we didn't do PBPs and we could just reveal results so the updaters could quickly know who to update and get it done. But that isn't how it works, and it's illegal under our rules to reveal winners, so it's just not worth it for me or anybody.