04-04-2022, 09:29 PMlespoils Wrote:

04-04-2022, 08:38 PMnour Wrote: It's not a popular take, but if we care about closer parity in Juniors, you need to cull 2 teams from the league at minimum. SHL playerbase is stable enough to expand when it makes sense for them, Juniors playerbase is way too unpredictable to field 14 teams when sub-60 player draft classes are the norm now.

As J GM of one of the two teams from the most recent expansion, this idea terrifies me, but I can never find any argument to disagree with it.

Fwiw if it was up to me, I wouldn't just cull the newest teams, I think hands down the best way is to find which teams have the least active discords/the least amount of active players, or some sort of combo of metrics that assess which teams are objectively the worst landing spots for a new create's ability to stay active. Doing this will almost certainly have us kill teams with a lot of history, but history means nothing if no one is actively keeping it, you know?