04-03-2019, 09:11 AMztevans Wrote:

04-03-2019, 08:59 AMGCool Wrote: I totally understand that. And yeah, not all the GM's have lives to attend to, that's for sure. I guess I'm just confused that with all the moving parts and all the suggestions that I'm sure the Head Office is trying to accommodate, how this one always comes up. Logistically it'd have to take a unanimous vote from all of management for something like this to go through -- as opposed to thinks like appointing a League Historian and streamlining the updating process, which the old heads can effectively ignore at no cost to themselves.

If I'm proven wrong, so be it; I just think this is hot air wasted. I won't believe it's going to change until it does, because I've heard the same complaint since S23.

I've advocated more than most for the "common user" with the ultimate goal of killing the tryhard mentality and making the game actually mean something besides acquiring maximum TPE. I don't think the two week layoff is the tipping point for common users; not right now.

In defense of HO, they had actually taken several steps while you were away-ish to condense playoff length.  When I joined the league, it was a three-week endeavor, and it had been chopped down to a much more feasible two weeks with consistency in recent seasons.  Granted, that came at the expense of several PbPs which had mixed but mostly positive reviews, but it was an issue that had been helped.

The issue now, which we haven't even seen in action yet, is where adding a new round fits into the league's "calendar."  The round itself is only a couple of days, but as @Bonk accurately noted on a Big Slappy Hour, that can throw everything on the schedule out of whack since we usually insist on doing preseason on a weekend and starting the regular season on a Monday, and the one time that didn't happen it had some gnarly unintended consequences on things like PT scheduling that left people fuming at the PT team for something they had absolutely no control over.

So yeah, it's just a couple of days of playoffs, but it could easily add a week to the offseason to keep things in rhythm, which puts us right back into that three-week range from the 20s and 30s when people were shouting from the rooftops for a quicker offseason (not that they don't know, but it was more prevalent and justified then).

Thanks for summarizing that well. I had no idea that the conversation progressed to that point.

So if all this is accurate -- and I'm fairly sure it is, because, why would you lie to me -- what's actually preventing the off-time from being condensed? I understand from a management team's perspective if they're simply waiting for this season to end so they can streamline it for next season. That makes the most sense, right? I mean we can talk in real time about how many days it's taking but we've simply never done this before, so it's sort of unreasonable to make a demand RIGHT NOW.

Apart from that, it seems like it's in everyone's best interest to cut the off days between rounds and make GMs abundantly aware of that fact so we can all be better prepared.