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Overall I think the concept is pretty neat, and closely mimics the fantasy style the EFL used to run. Basically players would be assigned dollar values, but it also factored in team state, actual attributes of the players, and whether they were actually favored for success or not. Positives: 1. Convenience - Without any reliance on anyone else to make your team, this is 100% more convenient than the VHFL's draft structure. I don't think there's any argument there. It's also probably the most overwhelming positive of this concept, which is quite important. People's time is valuable. 2. Value of TPE - With the payout dependent on percentage of scores, as well as a unique 6 for the overall winner, there is definitely more of a competitive incentive in picking your teams here. Removing the incentive to copy folks is also an interesting concept, and I think it's both a positive and a negative which I'll address later. Overall though, dropping your payout to the rank below if you tie seems like a good deterrent to be copying people. I'm not completely sure how often it would occur since payouts are dependent on overall participant percentiles vs VHFL's group-related scoring. 3. Strategy - I liked your point about budgeting, and how irl super coach would allow you to sell players whose values increase. Budgeting can definitely force people into making harsher decisions than they'd have to make in VHFL, and it'd potentially be more strategic than the VHFL. With a draft structure though, it's difficult to compare. Concerns: 1. Player Costs - I'm not sure what your scoring was since I don't see it in this post or in the original sign-up post, but in the old meta era I would see this format as a bit problematic for obvious reasons. As people start to discover build efficiencies, TPE doesn't adequately reflect skill level. People who have lower TPE but spend more efficiently could have equal if not better builds than those who have more TPE but don't build as efficiently. The way you assign the dollar value 2. Punishment for copying - One thing I've noticed is nice about all of the current Fantasy games is that players can either copy people more "knowledgeable" than them, or can get advice from their peers or GM's. In this system, they are punished for that with the bonus for non-unique teams (which seems a bit like a crapshoot) as well as the tiebreaker structure that could drop someone's TPE for copying someone else's team. 3. Incentive to participate - Convenience was a big + for me in this system, but it does have its limits. It's convenient from a time to complete perspective, but for those not overly familiar with the players in the league, the inherent punishment for copying negates the convenience aspect. With the scoring system as you highlighted, the average payout will definitely be lower than VHFL since only the overall winner of Super Coach will get 6 TPE, and ties drop people to lower percentiles. I don't know if I'd participate in Super Coach if I had to pick between VHFL and Super Coach, knowing I would average a higher payout in the VHFL.

Sneaking one in for S82 Transaction ID: 20975721050290081 Doubles Week - Claiming 3/27 5 uncapped - Claiming 3/27 $1M Cash

Congrats!

Wasn't that just for yesterday? Think you're fine now right?

Yeah, I'm chilling. You're welcome for bringing Gordon back. Maybe if you leave me alone, I'll be kind with the other factions resurrections.

I'm unkillable, leave me alone lol. I think. Or I can do my shit from jail, save everyone's time

SMH

unvote hatty, vote Ben

idk you were the last person to get voted in the thread and no one else seemed coordinated lmao

Uh, vote Jhatty?

Super cool article, I think I will fall under the camp of VHL and EFL HOF but no SBA HOF since I have my first SBA player right now, and he is just a rookie. Letang made the HOF here, and I think Markstrom will make the Hall in the EFL after he retires. Hope I make the list!

Don't we have both a BlackGate jailor and a Batman in every game?

I'm being mildly dramatic here, it was just an unexpected volume increase for the transitioning music lol. Nice pod, hope to hear more of it!

Sorry for being clueless, still learning!

That was a quick win for Berocka sheesh. No one protected Gordon?

Post as many PC questions as you'd like. You need at least 6 asked/answered in order to claim for the max 2 TPE. Good luck as Oslo AGM, it'll be a project that needs a lot of effort. I think you seem like a good person for the role from your time in the JST and from what I've seen of you around the league. For TPE completion, I think that these kinds of efforts to tell people how to earn/how much more to earn should stem from a GM/AGM. We want to focus on these user to user interactions, instead of trying to automate literally everything. New player guides exist, I believe one is pinned in the media spot section. But yeah, I generally think that a GM and their AGM can provide a lot of what you want new users to see, except it'd be mouth to mouth flow of information and guidance instead of some kind of portal feature. Your audio/music shift after talking about TPE stuff blew out my eardrums lmao. 1 son woo. Nice to meet you, couldn't tell you like LoFi at all. Disc golf eh? Casey DeSmith on the Pens really like disc golfing, I think he did it semi-pro for a bit. Fuck the Jackets.

Hey nice, someone from Indiana. It's a shame they don't have more of a hockey presence, it's quite a fun sport. Check out some NHL games when you get a chance, they're great to watch. Welcome to the league, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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you can shrink it

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You're welcome Some changes are in the works, I'd like to think we're quite close to nailing a few details down and getting them ready for implementation. Stay tuned! I admittedly did not hear everything about your fantasy portion as I got distracted, but I heard you were preparing something for the BoG to review. Would love to see how it turned out!

Can't be broken more than twice. We're just having fun now, not much else to do lol. Let's fuck em up

No, just an artificial word count I set as part of a discord related conversation Thad and I were having - for joke purposes.

below word count, appeal denied