Theme week; GMs, assistants, presidents and NFTs

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In todays VHL, the art of being a General Manager has changed to a more tactical approach rather than a social approach. As a veteran of the league since the seasons were in their teens, you could tell early on that to be a successful General Manager in the league you needed to have the popularity across the boards. There was no discord and there wasn’t necessarily track records for any general manager at the time as well so being a successful General Manager was mostly a social game rather than strategic. However that has changed as we are seeing GMs be with teams long term as well as assistant general managers becoming a role that is more valued as well. In the past, assistant general managers weren’t necessarily a big role, and mostly just given to people on the team as a social distinction with no official task list or duties to fulfill. That however has changed, as assistant general managers tend to be the first line of communication with a team and their management. Gone are the days in the VHL is a popularity competition between General managers and members with high post rating and in are the days where long term success and simulation structural planning is the key to success. 

 

When we look at roles on teams however, could there possibly be a role as a president on teams now? When we look at what a general manager does, we see that they deal with transactions and interactions between players, teams and the league however would it make sense to add a president role to help with administration and team structure? This would allow general managers to focus on trades and player building rather than having to worry about any of the team’s inner workings. 

 

Another thing to think about, is the league ready for team owners? The big question for this would be would we have real life people buying the team or would we use a currency in the league to create a new dynamic of the VHL? How could we add a value and a dollar figure to teams and how would teams generate money? Could this possibly be a situation where we as a league could adopt NFTs as a form of adding value to our league and potentially providing an income source to keep the league alive for years to come. How this could work would be that each team could have an NFT of higher value, and each player could have a player card as well. Having possession of this card or certain cards would allow a return in TPE, and potentially cash if the person was to sell their card down the line. Potentially looking at “power up” abilities per card is something that could be an interesting addition to what we know our league to be today. 

 

With all these thoughts stemming from the role of the general manager, we can see that our league relies on them and they are an integral part of our future.