[quote author=nostar link=topic=232.msg2036#msg2036 date=1278737773]<br />My post was mostly about how franchising fixed a lot of the problems we&#039;re seeing this season. Players bailing for better squads, no scheduling success, no shows, bad captaining. It all changes when you play with people you like. Take Fast bailing in the euros one season then playing with me and Ralph the next. If you play with people you&#039;re confident and comfortable with you do better and the league does better.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />So franchising would&#039;ve prevented Shadow&#039;s boss from telling him to come to work around the time of his IDL match? Ok. <br /><br />So franchising prevented mike from suddenly disappearing for god knows what come our IDC Championship match?&nbsp; Er...no offense to mike, but no it didn&#039;t. <br /><br />Didn&#039;t Fast almost not play for you and Ralphis over some dispute, saying he was done or something? I could argue that he realized if he quit then, he may have effectively ended his IDL career. You speak of Fast ragequitting on the Euros, but one of the reasons he bailed on them is because Nero traded Jkist to SUC for Dewww, and SUC ended up with the same team that won a title the season before, while SPE was significantly worse. Heck, for all we know, Fast knew that&nbsp; if he ragequit SPE, he guaranteed Nero didn&#039;t make the playoffs and was shafted as captain since that&#039;d be 2 straight seasons he watched the playoffs &quot;on green or white&quot;. <br /><br />And BSK...you say they have 3 wins; you mean 3 wins and a tie. That&#039;s not terrible in 5 weeks, no matter how you try to downplay how they got them. I mean, everyone&#039;s gotta play DMR eventually, you know. And I already told you about Shadow.<br /><br />FLS? I get it now; franchising is so awesum it even fixes PING! It&#039;s amazing!&nbsp; :o <br /><br />If Rus having a life means he&#039;s only showing up intermittenly, I may have to sign up for a life. Er...LB sure showed up in prac against you on Map20! 8 ) It seems FLS merely changed hands as far as captain as opposed to &quot;lose&quot; it. Unless they just suck for the rest of the season, I&#039;m not sure that&#039;s a big deal. It&#039;s not like they traded someone over night like some teams did. Same for Ladna taking a week off; assuming it was vacation, god forbid someone does that in the summer. I mean, are you suggesting he doesn&#039;t take this week off if franchising was in place?