05-20-2023, 09:40 AMsköldpaddor Wrote: I do not have time today to get into all of this because I still have a whole lot of scouting to do for the J draft, but I will say that this is a completely unnecessary hostile comment at one of the people without whom we would straight up not have had a season last year. You're free to disagree with whoever you want, obviously, but when you're taking shots at one of the people who keeps the lights on, it really detracts from any other argument you're trying to make.

And this kind of gatekeeping in Blitz' post simply doesn't sit right by me, that's why my comment was a bit snarky. Saying that you shouldn't be allowed to criticize things or suggest changes, unless you are literally one of the people running this place in the off-season, is a shitty take that deserves to be called out.

Quote:Also, for what it's worth, we have by far the longest season out of any of the affiliate leagues, and I think you may be the first person I've seen asking for us to make it even longer.

That's what I've got for now - the rest of it I'll try and take stock of later once we're through the J draft.

Maybe we have different scopes of reference, but I don't find that to really be true. I don't think I've ever really heard many people complain about seasons being too long or there being too many games both here when seasons were longer, or in other leagues with longer seasons. When there were complaints they were about the length of the off-season, where I agree with you that we shouldn't shorten that because people need it to get administrative tasks done or recharge, but people were fine with longer regular seasons as long as the simming was reliable. One other well established league that I think can serve as a comparison, even though they aren't an affiliate, is the VHL. Their seasons are about 11 weeks for example, judging by a quick look, so basically the slightly longer timeframe I would suggest. But even one extra week instead of two would go a long way already.

And again, it's not about the length of the season itself, but about the ratio between action and no action. We are a sim league were for most people, there is no simming half of the time. I don't get why we rush so much through the regular season and cram 3 or 4 games into a single day instead of lowering that number a bit and putting more value on the individual game, or have more rest days to lessen the burnout on simmers. Quick sucessive seasons actually contribute to overall burnout imho, because all those annoying seasonal chores repeat in higher frequency than if we went at a slower pace.