Idea

[Awesome]

Squad hopping seems to be a problem every year in twl and people seem to try to come up with new solutions to fix it like the soft/hard lock and other ways.

I just had an idea to put out there about how to make rosters a bit more stable. I don't know if it's ever been proposed before, and if so, oh well... sorry.

How about picking any number (10 comes to mind since there are 10 weeks of TWL) and make a roster limit of like 30 for example. When TWL starts, and the ops send out the invitation for all squads that have qualified for twl, the squads have to send back their roster of up to 30 people. After that point, the squad is allowed to take the number above (10) and add that many more people to their roster over the course of the season (given that they still keep within 30 roster limit).

Basically, it doesn't have anything to do with the calander and getting everyone on roster really quick before a certain date. It gives the captains of the TWL squads the ability to decide for themselves how quickly and how accurately to recruit and if a squad like Shriek dies like last year (or the incident with download/nethervoid/decypha) and people want to join squads after week 5, they still can.

Just an idea... opinions please? (about the idea, not me B))

[bloodzombie]

I don't think it's terrible.

Except for the roster lock part.

[Awesome]

yeah i dont care if you put like 30 or 40 or whatever number for roster limit ... the main part of the idea is just to limit the number of people u can add after twl starts and not limit by # of weeks u are allowed to recruit.

[bloodzombie]

yeah i dont care if you put like 30 or 40 or whatever number for roster limit ... the main part of the idea is just to limit the number of people u can add after twl starts and not limit by # of weeks u are allowed to recruit.

But what I'm saying is, no limit at all to the squad, but then you're limited to a certain number of new guys.

basically I just mean that a roster limit isn't necessary to implement your idea.

[Kim]

For sure, a squad should keep a consistent image of their squad, and not go through some revolution where they just drop 15 players and pick some here and there from the top squads where members are not satisfied. You'll end up with unstable squads across the board.

[Fit of Rage]

I'm not really in support of this idea because frankly it doesn't cut down much on squad hopping in TWL. Theoretically a person could still quit a lower ranked squad for a playoff bound one in week 9 or 10 with no work or effort required.

[Cig Smoke]

Ya you'd still let the window of opertunity for ppl to hop from a losing squad to a winning squad b4 playoffs. Or for a person to switch squads over the course of the season. U need to be able to punish the person as well as the squad for hopping. Overall i think the idea is a nice one, but it needs more put into it then is said.

[Awesome]

umm... if someone is on a low ranked team in twl they aren't just gonna be able to get on a high ranked team headed for playoffs simply because they decide to.

and if they could, they probably wouldn't even bother being on that low ranked team for the first half (or more) of twl.

most playoff teams wont mass recruit from the lower tier of twl anyways.

[HellzNo!]

if you lowered the number to 5, then chances are each squad will have raeched that limit near the end of the season, and nobody will be able to join in the last couple weeks. I like the idea...even if it was proposed by awesome.

[Kim]

It's great because it

• restricts mass squad linup changes that will cause unbalanced squads
• puts a heavier toll on people who decide to ditch their squad just because its a losing one

I appreciate this idea because it supports my latter point.

[Awesome]

if you lowered the number to 5, then chances are each squad will have raeched that limit near the end of the season

yeah.. 10 was just a number i threw out there as an example. the idea was what i was trying to convey

[Stabwound]

Well there definately needs to be a roster lock before the middle of the season, to keep people from jumping to guaranteed playoff bound squads. Having no roster lock could potentially create a very unbalanced league if, for example, a squad dissolves and all of their best players join the #1 squad.

There just needs to be a strict roster limit and an early lock. If people get screwed over because their squad dissolves on Week 10, then it's too bad. You'll fuck up the league if you are allowed to join another squad.

[Graner]

You have a point in there Awesome. If some squad drops from twl just because it gets banned for its stupid captain (love you zz, roy, mol), players still have a chance in joining a new twl squad. :greedy:

[apt]

i agree with fit, i dunno what roster lock is at right now, but i think it should be like after round 3. i dunno ive never played twl so i dunno how bad the squadhopping thing is here, but squadhopping happens in every league. its just part of the game.

[Due]

i agree with fit, i dunno what roster lock is at right now, but i think it should be like after round 3.

and u can work with suspensions, like if u join an other twl squad be4 round3 u get suspened for # of twl games.