Plans for next season

[Banks]

I thought I wanted TWDT with no star cap. But I don't think it's a great idea, actually. There aren't enough elite players left to make that really interesting, so we'd still rely upon the midrange and lowrange players that we do with a regular TWDT. Unless we did 6 teams... that could work.

TWL could be fun, but I think that could be quite thin as well.

I'd be up for another TWDT, but maybe include an additional spider league. It has so much potential for a 5v5 league.

A DT with a 5v5 spider league would be incredible. Yes I am biased but I don't give a fuck.

Though, I do want a TWL. Or something different, just not three draft tournies in a row!

[afghan]

It’s funny that every year people try and come up with these crazy outlandish things to try for next league. Realistically, none of these ideas would ever go through or be attempted due to the extremity of the idea in addition to no one being willing to run a league with that idea (bc the person that comes up is not someone that would run a league). The best idea is to stick with what works and don’t try and fix what’s not broken. I digress though. To ogrons point, I agree it’s an incredible disadvantage to be a low star cap. It’s a lot harder than it looks drafting for 3 leagues as it is and then throw in the low star value you bring and on top of that going against caps that have played tw for 15 years whom have capped for 5+ seasons. There’s an insane advantage that vet caps have simply from the fact that they can text an old player to sign on that they’ve played with for 10 years when someone like me relies on another player with those connections. On the other hand, I do think there is value in experience and I think that I could for sure do better the second time around if given the opportunity to learn from my mistakes (not saying I would necessarily volunteer). It really does take doing it to really get an idea of how to be a successful cap. It was fun at times but definitely frustrating but at least I was able to contribute to keeping the 8 team TWDT going despite my failures.

[Shadowmere]

it would probably force some interesting lines though. it would also probably force parity. youd get fewer squads going on extended winning or losing streaks. as a team wins, it gets tougher, as they lose, easier

its probably a pretty bad idea, but thinking about the statistics behind it would be interesting.

its basically handicapping squads.

I would just balance out my plays depending on the week and situation, instead of hammering it down every weekend.

[ogron]

you've played in multiple TWDT-J, TWDT-D, and TWDT-B finals, you're an actual jav and baser who can play shark and terr at a solid level, and you're an OK 7-star in wb... that's not comparable to nipple, afghan, TJ, ixador, and skyforger who are 1-leaguers and not even 9 in their main ship and contribute nothing in the other two leagues.

you provide across-the-board value, not a good comparison at all.

[Majorcrisis2]

if you want to improve TWDT, maybe don't let low-star, one-leaguers cap.

none of them have ever won or made the finals, and none has made the playoffs since 2012.

I am a non-leaguer... Yet I won in my first season..

I think the 'problem' is with these players have to vs multi league talents or an experienced cap like tiny.
And we both know we have been struggling to get those vets you want to cap. Its not out of luxury these low stars have capped in the last seasons.

[ogron]

if you want to improve TWDT, maybe don't let low-star, one-leaguers cap.

none of them have ever won or made the finals, and none has made the playoffs since 2012.

[Zeebu]

it would probably force some interesting lines though. it would also probably force parity. youd get fewer squads going on extended winning or losing streaks. as a team wins, it gets tougher, as they lose, easier

its probably a pretty bad idea, but thinking about the statistics behind it would be interesting.

its basically handicapping squads.

[Zeebu]

thats why the overall caps would have to change and/or youd have to set some upper limits to the number of 10s per team or in the league altogether

[Rab]

So when a cap drafts all the good value players, then u whack them up to 10* so that team can't field anyone...
Yeah. gud1. :P

[Zeebu]

have ratings change week to week depending on how well or poorly that person did. youd either have to put a hard cap on the number of 10s 9s and on down for each or youd have to modify the star limit of lines week to week. youd probably have to put a cap on the amount an individual's rating could change week to week. there are other huge challenges like people purposefully throwing recs when a game is already won or dealing with how to change an individuals rating when they bench for multiple weeks. no idea how to deal with sharks either.

its an idea. maybe not a great one because of significant logistical barriers, but its an idea.

[Rab]

or 1x wb, 1x jav, 4x base.

[MHz]

wouldn't have to do two of each. could schedule it as 2xwb, 2xjav, 1xspid and 1xbase.

[Nipple Nibbler]

With an addition of a spider league that is 8 games a day, this is really taxing on caps and op. What if we hosted some sort of wb/jav/spider 2v2 tournament instead? I miss ?go tourny, had a lot of fun there back in the day.

[Ricko]

Spider league could be fun, if the right map/format was implemented. Might be a bit overkill having 4 leagues in TWDT though?

If another TWDT or TWL is up next after the new year, I'd really suggest an earlier start time by at least 1 hour to make it easier on Euros.

[Rab]

An earlier start would be great for euros.