TWDT 24 Free Agency Sign Up

[Tiny]

I do not like the FA system. You should punish them by not letting them play the first round this week, not this tax.

[zidane]

edit: fa system stinks

[viop11]

i litirilly never signed any1 off free agincy that made any sort of meaningful imp1ct from wut i cud remember

[Riverside]

Without looking season by season I can recall off the top of my head Blast (my team) was doing horribly 3 seasons ago, we got temujin in the free agency draft and we won jav that season. Two seasons ago Pure Luck was doing poorly, got siaxis in the free agency draft and won warbird that season. I'm sure there's more examples that are slipping my mind at the moment but free agency was starting to feel too over powered for what it's meant to accomplish. The whole point of free agency is allowing as many players to join TWDT as possible without it feeling broken towards the teams playing poorly mid season and boost them to the #1 spot.

This helped ty.


Temujin? Is that a newer player?

[RaCka]

Word. Thanks for the response.

Did I miss something, other than that 1 season where viop signed a shit ton of players (like 3), and ended up doing really well?

Were there other seasons where lower teams with the top 1-2 free agents ended up as the top 1-2 teams?

I think the purpose of free agency is meant to allow teams that aren't competitive to regain that competitive spark and for teams that are competitive to complete their lines (if they're fortunate enough w the free agent class).

The real purpose is TWDT: which is to promote competitive gameplay for as many members of the community as possible.

Without looking season by season I can recall off the top of my head Blast (my team) was doing horribly 3 seasons ago, we got temujin in the free agency draft and we won jav that season. Two seasons ago Pure Luck was doing poorly, got siaxis in the free agency draft and won warbird that season. I'm sure there's more examples that are slipping my mind at the moment but free agency was starting to feel too over powered for what it's meant to accomplish. The whole point of free agency is allowing as many players to join TWDT as possible without it feeling broken towards the teams playing poorly mid season and boost them to the #1 spot.

[beam]

it's already pretty lame that the last place team gets automatic 1st fa pick when they are only 1 game back from a playoff spot in a season that 8 teams make it

[Riverside]

I think a huge majority of TWDT players agree that FA needed / needs some sort of nerf moving forward. Many players said to get rid of it completely which I don't think is a great solution. It's too late to get rid of the .5 tax for this season but we can at least get some feedback from this season for future ones and potentially make a different type of nerf for free agency in the future. The players who signed up had more than enough time to sign up for the regular draft and chose not to for whatever life obligations they had.

Word. Thanks for the response.

Did I miss something, other than that 1 season where viop signed a shit ton of players (like 3), and ended up doing really well?

Were there other seasons where lower teams with the top 1-2 free agents ended up as the top 1-2 teams?

I think the purpose of free agency is meant to allow teams that aren't competitive to regain that competitive spark and for teams that are competitive to complete their lines (if they're fortunate enough w the free agent class).

The real purpose is TWDT: which is to promote competitive gameplay for as many members of the community as possible.

[RaCka]

Is it too late to ask to remove the tax? Its worth noting it was a last minute addition (literally).

It did its thing. It incentivized players to sign up before free agency (at least those who felt they could at the time- circumstances change, life happens).

I'm aware that it means that high impact players like Ease, bicin and Iron play without a tax (ez as fk). Id like to see gr8 players like Mongrel and others play without any further obstacles (it can be hard to get in the rotation sometimes, regardless of how well you perform).

My team is Power (draft pick number 6).

I think a huge majority of TWDT players agree that FA needed / needs some sort of nerf moving forward. Many players said to get rid of it completely which I don't think is a great solution. It's too late to get rid of the .5 tax for this season but we can at least get some feedback from this season for future ones and potentially make a different type of nerf for free agency in the future. The players who signed up had more than enough time to sign up for the regular draft and chose not to for whatever life obligations they had.

[Riverside]

Is it too late to ask to remove the tax? Its worth noting it was a last minute addition (literally).

It did its thing. It incentivized players to sign up before free agency (at least those who felt they could at the time- circumstances change, life happens).

I'm aware that it means that high impact players like Ease, bicin and Iron play without a tax (ez as fk). Id like to see gr8 players like Mongrel and others play without any further obstacles (it can be hard to get in the rotation sometimes, regardless of how well you perform).

My team is Power (draft pick number 6).

[Rab]

I'm not sure if zid is saying Mongrels rating should be increased or not.
It's currently 7.5 without tax and 8 with tax.
I'm saying it should be 8 without tax and 8.5 with tax.
zid said 8 with tax, which is no change, but made the case for Mongrel being underrated, which is a change.

[Exalt]

about Mongrel:

he didn't play because I didn't have the stars on my team to take advantage of his low rating, he needed to be better than my 7.5* players (Hellzno and Banzi). I played them because banzi was a pretty good under, and hellzno lagged like crap. Almost every cap tried to trade me for mongrel and I refused because he was really underrated, he was going 2:1 in every bd so it's very possible he should have been added above those other two and I should have just played below the cap.

He should be an 8 with tax 100%

So... you fucked over a player by not allowing him to play, because he was underrated and you wanted to hit the star cap even though the star cap is entirely arbitrary?

Why is this okay? I get that maybe it helps to not allow good players on other teams, but this is a game. The fact that you fucked him over like that last season and now want him higher rating this season to fuck him over yet again is... honestly... fucking evil. That's legitimately a fucked up thing to do.

[zidane]

about Mongrel:

he didn't play because I didn't have the stars on my team to take advantage of his low rating, he needed to be better than my 7.5* players (Hellzno and Banzi). I played them because banzi was a pretty good under, and hellzno lagged like crap. Almost every cap tried to trade me for mongrel and I refused because he was really underrated, he was going 2:1 in every bd so it's very possible he should have been added above those other two and I should have just played below the cap.

He should be an 8 with tax 100%

[RaCka]

just want to clarify i was not saying that dwopple rigged anything or trying to get it redone. my point was that it may as well have not been recorded/posted because the video was completely useless and provided no evidence

I agree, it was more so just to not re-do it and just to have some sort of proof that it actually was randomized.. He realized it was cut off on the last roll you can hear in the audio

ratings feedback:
Mongrel 7.5* spider is low, suggest 8*
Iron 7.5* spider is low, suggest 8*

Mongrel was rated 6.5 in basing last season and played zero basing games total. He definitely has improved in basing but bumping him more than 1 full star felt like a huge overkill IMO.

Iron was a 7.5 last season and finished some what middle of the pack for his star rating. 9 games played 3 wins for basing with a 1.29 KPD ratio. It wasn't quite strong enough to bump up although I think he's probably somewhere in the middle of 7.5 - 8* based on his stats. Two 10* baser's signed off on him being 7.5* for this season

[Rab]

ratings feedback:
Mongrel 7.5* spider is low, suggest 8*
Iron 7.5* spider is low, suggest 8*

[zidane]

just want to clarify i was not saying that dwopple rigged anything or trying to get it redone. my point was that it may as well have not been recorded/posted because the video was completely useless and provided no evidence