[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br /><br />No but it might have let him construct a team that wasn&#039;t so dependent on him to do well. It&#039;s really funny how narrowly you read my comments. Let&#039;s take a look at more ignorant things you said.[/quote]<br /><br />The only way I can see franchising helping Ghost pick a better 4th player than he did is if someone picked someone real crappy for a franchise, opening up the opportunity for said good 4th players to still be on the board when he needs that good insurance player on his side. I have to agree with Hatred that part of the problem was that most of the good players from last season didn&#039;t sign up for this season. I mean, out of the players he mentioned, all of them except 3 (Chewy, Jkist, Chaindude) were in IDL LAST season. That&#039;s 7 very good players who played last season that need to be replaced this season. In a 8 team league, you rob, in theory, 7 of those teams that have a chance to have a &quot;decent&quot; 4th player. So, the whole league practically downgraded. <br /><br />Did I miss something?<br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br /><br />From what I hear you decided to play without him on a number of occasions and went with an Oath/Dev combo. I&#039;m not too clear on the details but really last season you have a stellar chance to win and you botched it big time. Can&#039;t pin it on mike when it&#039;s chronic failure!<br />[/quote]<br /><br />It&#039;s one thing to say that if our team did better (in general and strategically) in the regular season, we could&#039;ve picked a map of our own instead of Map12. However, I do believe mike is considered one of the best runners (if not the best??) on it. As he explained to you, he wasn&#039;t around when the match took place. Oh well. <br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br />Yes and we would have drafted Xray and won anyway. That is because Fast quitting our team wouldn&#039;t have tanked us Tai. Because Ralph had a player he choose and could rely on. Franchising stabilizing teams that way is a point I tried to make. You are very dense.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />You call me dense, yet you fail to see the only reason I mentioned that is because you talked about looking at Fast bailing on the Euros and joining you and Ralphis as proof you play better with the people you&#039;re comfortable with. I forgot to also mention that Ralphis wanted to trade Fast to me; actually, you did ask me about this and I said I considered it but decided against it. My point is you&#039;re trying to use Fast as a shining example that franchising worked when in reality it seems like he nearly caused more problems than he solved for your team, even though you ended up winning.<br /><br /><br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br /><br />This whole thing is mostly nonsense. JKist was traded to SUC after SPE got a losing record and was floundering. Also he was traded for Mortal (undefeated at the time). Mortal is a great player and it is my opinion that a team of Fast, Nero, Dewww and Mortal would have not only made playoffs but might have gone as far as conference. Fast bailed because he was unhappy with his captain and lame in general. Not even franchising will fix that.[/quote]<br /><br />Well, we agree on something at least, especially as far as the last sentence.<br /><br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br /><br />No I meant 3 wins. Don&#039;t correct me you cockeyed faggot. One win against DMR and one against a Denny-less SPE. Until this week they were a flop. 3-1-1 isn&#039;t terrible, but it&#039;s not what they are capable of. I do think they&#039;ll do okay but they certainly weren&#039;t a tough team when I played them.[/quote]<br /><br />I guess we can agree to disagree. But it means they have the third best record in IDL. Maybe I can&#039;t call them overrated cause they were never as loaded on paper to me as BBC and SUC in the first place, and lo and behold, they&#039;re the only two teams with records better than BSK. Go figure....<br /><br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br />You misunderstand. I&#039;m not blaming any of these people for all of IDL&#039;s troubles. I&#039;m saying that franchising, while difficult to discern for some uneducated inmates, fixed a lot of problems on an interpersonal level. It also added a lot of talent that you guys are so adamantly pointing to as a cause for this seasons...underwhelming-ness.[/quote]<br /><br />Outside of Ladna (and I do wonder if Fast is on to something but I won&#039;t make assumptions), if anyone did infact leave simply because franchising was done away with, I would like to know. <br /><br />...I do find it interesting that only 5 people were franchised, though. Winter of 2009 all 8 teams franchised, and then in Summer of 2009 only 7 teams franchised...well, whatever.<br /><br />[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2040#msg2040 date=1278748341]<br />Cool, you guys all like this system. It&#039;s okay I guess. Statistically it has very little difference from franchising, if just a little more of a disparity in team records. Let&#039;s assume it&#039;s all just coincidence that more trades have happened this season than probably ever before in IDL and our player base is dwindling. It will continue to dwindle if the prospect of being on Tai&#039;s team looms in the distance I assure you.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />So wait, were you trying to make a point, or did you just want to bash me cause I dare had the audacity to argue your points?