I haven&#039;t really had a chance to post around these forums (I&#039;m lazy) but I think that removing franchises was a superb decision.<br /><br />Franchises gave potential opportunity to have phenomenally skilled players all reside on one team. I&#039;m unsure exactly how draft order is decided (presumably not by skill) but simply put this allows for stacked teams. It would essentially enable one captain to obtain their two top picks with little interference. You could have a really good captain such as Nostar or Ralphis franchise someone like whiteboy, and still be eligible for a high ranking pick. This doesn&#039;t exactly favour new IDL captains, or captains who have a &quot;bad record&quot; with previous seasons. I&#039;m almost positive that nobody would have actually wanted to franchise with me, which would result in the same captains getting the same good players over and over.<br /><br />I&#039;m not saying that it&#039;s a bad feature, franchising gives a lot to look forward to. You can play on a team with your friend, or a dependent player who you know will show up.<br /><br />I don&#039;t think the shitty team argument is even valid this season, DMR just had a bad captain with abysmal picks (Quicksilver?). As far as I see, EBL has a lot of potential to do good, but for god knows what reason they aren&#039;t.<br /><br />Denny-less team or not, we still won. It doesn&#039;t matter who plays, yes I agree, we did do pretty shitty (which especially showed in our game), but you also have to consider that we did play with Legion our first game (no offense to Legion). I&#039;m also willing to bet we will win our rematch with SPE this week, whether Denny plays or not.<br /><br />Also, I agree with Ladna, a challenge is always fun. Having to actually practice to beat another team is fun, I won&#039;t disagree, but when you constantly lose every game that &quot;fun&quot; starts to deteriorate.