Needless to say, I think all people realized 12 teams probably wasn&#039;t going to work out this season given the sign-ups - perhaps maybe for a few teams who got creative, sure. Regardless, I understood what it was you guys wanted to accomplish to only expand the league as it&#039;s player base grew, the problem was hardly anybody signed up this season. I&#039;ve heard everything from changing draft-styles (changing the draft order 2 days before the draft wasn&#039;t such a hot idea either) to adding/subtracting teams. The real issue is this: talent. We hardly have any of it. We&#039;re losing our stronger veterans faster than we&#039;re regaining skilled, potential-full new blood. Going back to 8 teams would have solved it this season, sure, but what happens when the talent pool dwindles even further? The IDL-R was nice last season but a lot of matches weren&#039;t played, this isn&#039;t in particular anyone&#039;s fault except the people who played in it. But I&#039;ll go over some things that I believe may help for future seasons:<br /><br />1. Stop letting shitty players be captains.<br /><br />Sorry Legion, Goatface, GastlyDeath or how many other millions of bad players have been allowed to cap. The reality is, we&#039;ve learned from this season how important one good person, or bad person, can be to a team. The reality is, when you allow players who aren&#039;t even at an IDL skill level take control of teams, you&#039;ve already handicapped that team by one player. I&#039;m tired of hearing &quot;oh well it&#039;s hard enough to find caps as it is!&quot; Then make people captain. Set a random draft pool for 16 of the top players (ranked by the IDL community) and the top 8 are made captains. It doesn&#039;t have to be decided by that format, but I get the feeling some top notch players are more willing to cap than you assume. For example, tell some of them they&#039;ll end up on bad teams if they don&#039;t cap.<br /><br />2. 8 Teams. It&#039;s been said enough, it really doesn&#039;t need to be overstated.<br /><br />3. Stop fucking with the draft order two days before the live draft. In fact, it doesn&#039;t need to be changed at all. The current Snake Draft system is perfect. Boohoo, somebody gets 12th overall pick and somebody gets 1st, shit happens. At least 12th gets back to back and 1st gets a shitty 3rd. I understand we shouldn&#039;t hold captains to the level of a previous team that was successful (or hold them accountable for a team being bad the previous season) and have their draft order be determined by somebody else. But, the problem is, most captains aren&#039;t willing to commit more than two seasons and it&#039;s the only way we can logically place a draft system. Besides, with 8 teams and a smaller draft, 1-8 will all be good selections and if we had the sign-up list we did this season, that #8 overall pick would be a lovely thing to have. <br /><br />Here&#039;s the deal: we&#039;re trying to cater to shitty captains and it&#039;s ruining the good captain&#039;s seasons by doing so (or would if we pursue alternate draft methods, etc). Stop trying to cater to them. If Legion is going to continue to suck and complain about ZD not registering his shots before he realizes he&#039;s bad and doesn&#039;t even pull the trigger half the time, then that&#039;s his own damn fault - the rest of the player-base in the draft shouldn&#039;t be held hostage by him as a captain. I&#039;m not trying to pick on Legion, but he just isn&#039;t really that good. He has improved and with some work, maybe he could be a bit better. In fact, this season, he might even make a decent 3rd on the right team. FLS just isn&#039;t the right team for him. Anyway, when you have a system mixed with shitty captains/good captains, it doesn&#039;t work. It either needs to be all bad players as captains or all good players as captains, because if you mix it up, the good players will dominate (see Ralphs, Nostar&#039;s, Bones&#039;, LB&#039;s, Tai&#039;s and some of the other good player&#039;s records vs players like Legion, goatface and Ghastlydeath [or Gastly, however the fuck you spell that morons name]). It&#039;s not easy to get good players to cap but it probably is the IDL&#039;s biggest problem to getting talent. You keep telling Chew he&#039;s going to be drafted by bad players every season and eventually he&#039;ll quit. Nobody wants to get drafted by a bad player, it&#039;s really why I became captain when I didn&#039;t necessarily want to be. I admit I&#039;m not a great captain but it seemed better than going into the draft and risk being drafted by somebody bad. If all the captains were good, I probably wouldn&#039;t feel bad about entering the draft as I&#039;m sure a lot of people who are active doom players but not IDL players currently would feel. 