[quote author=Ladna link=topic=517.msg4978#msg4978 date=1318461226]The goal of the draft is not to make a Ladna vs. Ralphis matchup always 50/50 odds.&nbsp; Rather, it&#039;s to make it so that one day it can be.[/quote]<br /><br />I don&#039;t understand you here.&nbsp; What do you mean by one day?&nbsp; I think Hatred says people just need to play more and get better but not everyone can.&nbsp; Ladna could play the rest of his life and probably not ever be as good as Ralphis (Ralphis will keep playing and getting better too) but Ladna is a great guy, done tons for the IDL, and is not a bad player by any means.&nbsp; Why shouldn&#039;t Ladna have a fair shot at the Masterbowl?&nbsp; At least one of the the players on Ladna&#039;s MB team would have to be good as Ralphis and Ralphis&#039;s other draft picks that season for his team to win.&nbsp; How will that ever happen with the disparity in captain skills of Ladna and Ralphis unless changes are made in the draft?<br /><br />I don&#039;t think trying to do 50/50 odds between all captains is bad.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s great because we already are trying that and not doing it yet.&nbsp; Why not take further steps along to parity?&nbsp; I doubt any of the changes listed so far will get the league anywhere near 50/50 odds.<br /><br />[quote author=Jenova link=topic=517.msg4984#msg4984 date=1318482436]<br />You have to cut the fat. I&#039;m just going to throw this out there and all of you are probably going to disagree, but finding 8 [b]good[/b] captains can be achieved. If we have enough good players sign up, (at least 16 with 8 teams) with 8 good captains to back these teams, then IDL would be a lot better. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />IDL should always be about how many people want to play and what teams they can support instead of what quality captains there are.&nbsp; That&#039;s just another form of ranking if you say we only have 9 good captains so we only get 8 teams but we have players to fill 12.&nbsp; Doing that is just going to quickly kill off the IDL as players can&#039;t play when they want to.<br /><br />[quote author=Hatred link=topic=517.msg4985#msg4985 date=1318487908]Elite players like JKist3(when he played)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />JKist isn&#039;t any elite player in CTF.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t even give a fuck unless he&#039;s on team NS.<br /><br />[quote author=Ladna link=topic=517.msg5004#msg5004 date=1318532231]<br />It&#039;s also popular to lament the fact that you&#039;re a good player, and you might get on a bad team.&nbsp; The answer to this is [b]captain your own team![/b].&nbsp; When Fast was on Nero&#039;s team, I told him exactly this, and it&#039;s still true.&nbsp; Either you captain your own team, or you take your chances in the draft like every other player.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Since people keep bringing this SPE team, I&#039;ll have to keep talking about it.&nbsp; I was Nero&#039;s franchise, we both agreed to it.&nbsp; One of the agreements we made for me to play on SPE was that he was to pick JKist (a huge mistake in retrospect) and not trade him under any circumstances.&nbsp; Nero agreed to this, then later relented on it to trade JKist away.&nbsp; I quit SPE as a result of him going back on his original agreement to have me as a franchise player for the season.&nbsp; People like to label me as a quiter and trash me but I had no problems playing on SPE and losing all season until Nero dishonored his agreement.&nbsp; Franchise players are not drafted so if we make special deals with captains in order to play for them that&#039;s between the captain and the franchisee.&nbsp; I played all season on TNMT whose record was 2-6 IIRC.<br /><br />I can understand people disagreeing with certain methods and means but I think more parity is good for the league.&nbsp; The reason this league is so good is because it does have some parity.&nbsp; The reason clans are so lame and horrible about playing each other is because often they do not have parity (or anything close to it).&nbsp; More parity will make people much more interested in the IDL and want to play.