Ladna, you&#039;re right, you shouldn&#039;t have listened to what the players wanted. Most of them are pretty stupid. Not to mention I recall being almost alone in my feelings towards franchising being stale. I don&#039;t have any stats to pull out of my ass, I don&#039;t have an example of a team or a season that &quot;suffered&quot; because of franchising. I just got bored, personally.<br /><br />Well, now I also feel like a lot of the players who were role models or who actually contributed positively to the league instead of just showing up to practice and the game are gone. [b]Most[/b] of those players were/could have been great captains. Franchising wasn&#039;t a horrible idea at all, I actually like it, and I enjoyed the three seasons it was implemented.<br /><br />I think in order to have a season without it, we needed those role model players to stick around. And it was just bad timing. I&#039;m not saying I am/was a role model, but I captained for a good 6 seasons and I always made the playoffs. I guess I decided to take a break at the wrong time. Along with all the names mentioned in previous posts.