If I were commish for a day...
I'm just gonna get right into it.
New Welcome to the League
I don't like how members are welcomed to the forum. I'd get rid of the bot and hire 4-5 people as a welcoming committee, this is not the recruitment team. Recruitment team can bring people in, this team can be retention from joining. Each of these 4-5 people would receive job pay and their job requirements would be simple. When a new member enters our league, one of the welcoming committee members reaches out via forum message or replying through creation thread, and directs this member through our league, like a tour guide and a first step buddy. It would make sense to create a discord server with these committee members, create a bot for when new members join, and then just put a reaction/emoji on each message for which new member you are going to reach out to.
I believe the instant one on one connection would boost our retention like crazy. Most of our welfare clickers and literally any IA, I could put my life savings down that they did not get that first connection, therefore did not develop further in our league.
If you think this is just a VHLM GM's job then you're wrong. A player enters our league and is directed to choose a team from the bot and waiver page, VHLM GM's don't get a word in until a player sends interest. From that small window you could easily lose someone's interest with no human connection.
I've been seeing a lot of people replying to new creation pages and welcoming new members. I'd just pay those people to be on the team.
Promote Supplemental Tasks + Checklist
Why are people only clicking welfare and practice when the extra 6 TPE from Supplemental Tasks take 10-15 minutes to do? Maybe not all GMs promote them but why can't the league just do that ourselves?
The way I see we can defeat this problem is by creating a weekly checklist of tasks you can do with the link to where to do them. Right on the front page of the forum. Tells people what to do each week and then the Welcome committee and VHLM GMs can have less stress on directing people what to do. Obviously our job is to teach the ropes, but why baby people with information? We did a survey with majority of people being in their late teens to mid 30's, I feel you are all capable of reading something on a screen.
More Jobs in General
People want to work if you give it to them. If I took over I'd make a league suggestion box post for more jobs. I bet you there's a lot of members out there with great ideas to benefit this league. Why not get more jobs?
We can literally create a small workplace here and I feel like with the right job pay, so many members would put in good work. The VHLM GMs got a pay increase from 2 to 4 TPE and I feel like I'm sweating my socks off each season with how good each GM is at running their team. Everyone wants to be competitive and I feel the pay increase helped a lot. This season I thought Houston would run away with it, just look at the standings now.
My new job ideas:
Make VSN great again - Hire everyone, anyone, LITERALLY ANYONE. VSN can be such a great source for the whole league to follow weekly but not everyone does. Alex has done a good job running it but he's only one person. I'd hire a team of like 10-15 active writers and just go crazy. Have a couple people working on different projects and pump out top tier content. Hire even one or two more graphics people, why not?!
Welcoming Committee - Which I explained above. Take the first step on your road to VHL greatness in the right way with people to help guide you from the start.
Stats collector - You can never have too much stats and numbers. We're all number geeks here, our sim engine is literally just numbers. I'd hire at least 1-2 more members to collect more data just to have it. If we have more data we can do more fun things with it, graphics, articles, even posting more on the portal for people to see.
Portal Updater - Dil's gone, I think it's only Josh working on the portal? I could be wrong... but why not just hire another person or two who knows how to do it. Give an extra hand and help grow our portal which is easily one of if not the nicest portal across all sim leagues. A small team of people coding and working together.
Any other job you can think of to benefit the league - read that again and you'll understand it.
Graphic Drives
TPE giveaway on graphics. We always did the banner for the cup winners, I missed those. We could do different themes every season... NOT THEME WEEK THEMES. More themes like - throwbacks, hockey card, cup winning moments, first goal/first save, rookie highlight... I just randomly thought of those in 1 minute. I'm sure there's more themes we could easily do. I just feel like it brings fun competition and everyone can hype up/ enjoy other member's work each season. Also with graphics I feel there is a lot more room for creativity with visuals than media spots, so either learn how to make them or watch everyone else take your TPE lol. This can make our league more attractive to the audience.
New Minor System
Combine the VHLE and the VHLM into the same minor league, have the cutoff remain at 400 TPE. The VHLM is becoming more and more competitive every season. Miami just sold their whole team in hopes to rebuild, now they have a full squad of waiver players and they're winning games. If the VHLM had those 8 extra teams to trade with, Miami wouldn't have sold their team that heavy, waivers would have been spread out more and you would realize more that teams like Philadelphia shouldn't be able to run through the entire league in the first half of the season just because they're spam playing two capped dmen with 99 endurance.
This would 100% result in teams having a lot of IA welfare clickers.
Yeah that's fine, after 3 seasons they become Free Agents and can sign to anyone.
Oh they're still resigning to your team?
Well that sucks, you can only sign to a different team each season after. If you're drafted you play 3 seasons. Then sign to whatever team you want, the next time you resign then you have to change teams.
Oh they're resigning each season and staying in the minors?
No they're not, the new minor system has a 5 season cutoff. A season is roughly two months real time:
5 seasons x 2 months = 300 days roughly
300 days / 7 days a week = 43 weeks roughly
6 TPE x 43 weeks = 258 TPE
Base 30 TPE + 258 TPE = 288 TPE
If you have been in our league for 10 months and haven't hit the TPE cutoff, let alone 300 TPE, then you are definitely not active. I'd rather just retire your player and let the 50 TPE first gen take your ice time. You can recreate and restart the long system again if that's what you're here for, just remember you only get 5 seasons muhahah.
No VHL team wants a welfare earner at 400 TPE. Retire them they're old and shit.
If you think that new players wouldn't like the new minor system: That's because you aren't teaching them the value of earning TPE and developing their player. They should want to join our league and earn as much as they can to be as good as their teammates. Be a good GM and bring the fun.
Just random thoughts going through my brain. Bye
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