OK if SPE is a bad example, then pick any team you like with a top player(s) and a poor captain:<br /><br />&nbsp; - Lords of Nigeria<br />&nbsp; - Cereal Killers<br />&nbsp; - Hot Wax Bandits<br />&nbsp; - Down but Not Out<br />&nbsp; - Laughing Gas<br /><br />If IDL had its way, Lockwolf, MionicDonut, Tenchu, Rexnor, and GhostlyDeath would be free to terrorize 3 fresh new players each season, as long as they somehow limp into playoffs every other season.<br /><br />This is really what you guys (IDL admins) are defending.&nbsp; That MionicDonut has as much a right to captain as Nostar, HumanBones, Jenova, Ralphis, etc. etc.&nbsp; This is just straight up insanity, and if you can&#039;t see it, you really need to jump in front of a bus or something.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even know.<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />I like the Ladna/Ralphis comparison :-*&nbsp; (it was mine to begin with) so let&#039;s stick with that.&nbsp; Also Fast I&#039;m not directly addressing you, it&#039;s more like the generic &quot;you&quot;.<br /><br />I don&#039;t believe I have the same shot as Ralphis at a Masterbowl.&nbsp; I personally believe any system in which I do is gay, because all that means is I beat Ralphis with a handicap.&nbsp; Who would ever be happy about a win like that?<br /><br />When I play in IDL, I play to win.&nbsp; Having fun is secondary, being nice is secondary, building IDL is secondary, etc. (&lt;MassVC&gt; How can you have 3 secondary things?&nbsp; &lt;Ladna&gt; Goddammit).&nbsp; And when I win, I want it to be because I and my team were better than the other team.&nbsp; Not because we picked first, not because of some queer power play or other penalty, not because one of their players ditched.&nbsp; I want to beat teams at their best, and to show this, I do my best to ensure that I&#039;m playing at my best, that I&#039;m on the edge of my game, that I&#039;ve practiced the map dozens of times, that I know how my teammates and the other team are going to play, that I have every competitive, fair advantage that I can get.<br /><br />And when I&#039;m up against a strong team, I want to beat that team more than anything.&nbsp; When I captained FLS, we had [b]GRUELING[/b] ODA02 practices before Week 1 when our team played against Ralphis/Fastidious/Nostar.&nbsp; I&#039;m proud of my teammates that they put up with it, and I&#039;m proud of the way we played that game, even though we lost.&nbsp; Were we disadvantaged because I was on our team?&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; Did that make me work even harder?&nbsp; Absolutely.<br /><br />If someone don&#039;t have that will to compete and win, then they&#039;re not fit to be a captain.&nbsp; Yeah IDL might take them anyway because getting captains is hard.&nbsp; But they&#039;re not on the same level as the others.<br /><br />So don&#039;t condescend to me and tell me that in order to beat better captains I need a handicap.&nbsp; If you think I&#039;m not good enough to be a captain then I accept that, but don&#039;t say I can play IDL and here are some training wheels.&nbsp; Fuck that.<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />OK, bravado aside, there is nothing the draft can do to ensure I get a player of Ralphis&#039; skill, and that Ralphis gets a player of my skill, and then we pick 3rds and 4ths of equal skill.&nbsp; Aside from the fact that we have no sure way of ranking players, that system would no longer be a &quot;draft&quot;.<br /><br />To be clear, I&#039;m not at all against parity.&nbsp; I think a league where fuckin [dewww, Dannyboy, Doomguy666, Nautilus] has to play against [ThatsJustPrime, Godsdoomer, ItalianStallion, Mantis-X] should do something to fix that.&nbsp; I submit that what IDL should do is pick captains of similar skill.&nbsp; I&#039;d prefer elite skill, but I&#039;ll take what I can get.&nbsp; This thread has largely been about what the draft can do to resolve that disparty, and I&#039;m arguing that it [b]can&#039;t do anything at all[/b], moreso than it already does, because there are bigger issues and causes than just draft position.<br /><br />[b]TL;DR[/b]: Quit fucking around with the draft, dismiss all captains at the end of every season, and pick the best captains at the beginning of each season.