Capra Hardball Dynasty League

from jketchum: I’ve been asked my opinion on this topic in private so I’ve decided to post it to have my “vote counted” if you will. I’m in 8 leagues, some of which are half assed public leagues where I have to struggle to get a simple response on a trade veto all the way to this league, which I consider to be an “advanced owner’s league”. What I mean by advanced owners is you don’t see a lot of stupid trades (except for getting trade raped for Brett Tracy in my first season by jacksonville) or moves that are overly questionable. We are all very thoughtful in how we run our franchises. We for the most part are all vets and understand budgets, ratings, and how to generally field a decent team. Froidl, teams can be rebuilt without clearly throwing games or keeping 26 year old studs at AA forever. Are your teams going to dominant the next 10 seasons, which was clearly what you were trying to do? Probably not, but I’ve rebuilt teams, and it doesn’t take 5 awful seasons and hoarding talent...

from canadadry: 1) Let's assume the following definition of the word Tanking: to intentionally field a team that is weaker than possible in order to draft higher in the draft or spend more payroll on IFA's. Let's also assume that Tanking has impacts on our game (eg. team parity) My question is this: While there may be impacts to tanking, are any of these impacts negative? If so, which one's and why? 2) The draft and IFA's are the best ways to secure long term player talent. This talent is necessary to sustain long term success in HBD. So why is Capra seeking to curb and restrict the actions of owners who are seeking to maximize their draft potential and increase their activity in the IFA market? 3) If restrictions are implemented to keep a team from drafting better or using all their resources to sign IFAs, are we not simply restricting their ability to improve the future of their team? And is this behaviour, therefore, entirely counterproductive to a league that is...

from crickett13; I n order to maintain competitive balance and give each owner flexibility on how to run his team I propose the following. Minimum wins over 2 seasons 110 If this is not reached the increase in wins between season 1 and 2 must have been 15 games or the team is put on 1 year probation. Once a team is put on probation they must show a 15 win improvement to stay in the league. Example 1 Scranton Breakers season 15 40 wins Scranton Breakers season 16 48 wins The Breakers must win 63 games in season 17 to stay in the league. Scranton Breakers season 17 70 wins Scranton stays in the league. Example 2 Scranton Breakers season 15 43 wins Scranton Breakers season 16 60 wins Even though Scranton did not win 110 games they did show a 17 game improvement so they are not placed on probation. Scranton Breakers season 17 45 wins Because the 2 season win total for seasons 16 and 17 is only 105 games Scranton is placed on probation and must win 60 games in season 18 to stay in the leagu...

from chazzzzzz: Every team must win 110 games over 2 seasons.

from steelerstime: If a team fails to finish above .400 for a season, then they are limited to 20M transfer from payroll(only 10M of which is spendable) and 2M transfer from coaches(1M). In short, if you finish below .400, then you can only use up to 31M in Prospect signings.

In light of recent events, we will vote upon and implement some kind of baseline for performance at the major league level. This will take effect with the onset of S15. That said, I think we would all like to make this new standard be as non-intrusive as possible so that each owner can continue to build their team as he/she see fit. It is, of course, difficult to meet both of these seemingly opposed ideals, but we're going to do our level best. We will accept proposals over the next 72 hours. For those of you who have voiced concern or complaints, this is your chance to help fix the problem. We will then move forward with the most viable options in a vote to be held via sitemail. We can't really hold it here since voting/posting anonymously here could lead to a Florida-style count. You are free to post your solutions here in the comments section, either logged in or anonymously, send them to me and I'll post for you, or post them here yourselves if you are a registered user...