I like shorter because it can lend itself to more unknowns and allow more seasons possibly per year if people wanted that.&nbsp; It goes both ways on the significance of matches.&nbsp; If you have a long season you can recover or dwindle all season long.&nbsp; With a short season each match is very important and teams are likely to be fighting until the end just because each match counts for a lot more.&nbsp; Looking back into the past when we had an even longer season the drop off near the end was only stopped somewhat by the mid season draft which basically made a new season for some teams as the changes in competitiveness were so great.<br /><br />I think a lot of the charm of the IDL is the draft and mixing up teams.&nbsp; After a while in the IDL usually around week 6 it seems now most teams are pretty well battle hardened and some teams begin to know their fate where it was not always so clear before that.&nbsp; I think that leads to a drop in interest.&nbsp; Look at the #idl population lately, it seems to have dropped off even though the Masterbowl is soon.&nbsp; People barely practiced the last few weeks, and you saw the greatest activity in the pre-season when teams were unproven.<br /><br />One idea I had is shorten the seasons then do three a year.&nbsp; Two would be the standard format then another would be sorta a fun type season where we would experiment with crazy rules, maps, etc.