Great post Gilga.<br /><br />Touching on some stuff you went over:<br /><br />Perhaps we should just get rid of trading?&nbsp; On the whole it seems to hurt league parity and I&#039;d argue you could say it has had more of a negative impact than positive.&nbsp; Bad captains have a lot harder time fucking up teams without ability to cut deals or trade.&nbsp; In special circumstances the board could intervene to do stuff if needed still.<br /><br />It would be cool to have interviews, radio shows, etc but that takes effort and most people can&#039;t even be assed to post on the forums let alone do anything that takes a lot of time.&nbsp; I think the couple IDL videos I did give a good feel for the league and how it plays.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to see a mega interview of the IDL board posted up on ESR(might be best in voice format like a podcast).<br /><br />Regarding franchising your stats on it are interesting.&nbsp; The franchise era was also only 8 teams, right?&nbsp; So it would make less range possible compared to 12 teams.&nbsp; My gut feeling is it&#039;s bad because it&#039;s pretty much the only IDL system used thus far that can guarantee the best players hooking up.&nbsp; Better to spread the best players onto different teams.<br /><br />Last season was arguably the worst IDL season so while it&#039;s fresh in the memory you have to put into perspective as well.&nbsp; Never have there ever been close to that many forfeits before.&nbsp; I think there were some serious problem teams this season and even some more solid teams had problems showing up.<br /><br />Main goals in the future should be growth (at least keeping 12 teams) and avoiding any problem teams (teams that can&#039;t show up or aren&#039;t competitive going .100 or whatever).