There&#039;s no telling right now which free agents are going to be reliable and which are not. Usually free agency is full of a fair amount of players that aren&#039;t reliable. There are a number of people I haven&#039;t seen in priv since they signed up. Let&#039;s take a look back at the Summer 2010 season. Although there were only 8 teams that season, there were 20 free agents. I didn&#039;t play then, but I can bet that almost half of those guys were too flaky to be around. That is just the way it works. <br /><br />After last season, everyone involved in the league made a great effort to recruit new players. This is the result of some really great recruiting, but I wouldn&#039;t let the numbers fool you. Like every season, there will be a group of people that will end up disappearing or not doing what they said they would do. I find that having this many free agents is better than the alternative of having 5 people, 1 of which gets playtime on almost every team. Who knows how many teams Asgar was on last season? I really don&#039;t remember.<br /><br />I think it would be a very unwise decision to increase the amount of teams right now. Not only are we a week away from the draft, but we haven&#039;t even begun to discuss how to make 14 or 16 teams work. I&#039;m sure it&#039;s not as complicated as I&#039;m making it sound, but it&#039;s not something I&#039;m interested in doing in such short notice. I&#039;m not sure I&#039;m interested in doing it at all, to be honest. Making sure there are 12 reliable captains is the most difficult part of each off-season, and although the fact that we were able to do it quite well this season pleases me I can&#039;t be sure we&#039;d find anyone else. We don&#039;t want to overestimate the reliability of all of these players, especially since so many of them haven&#039;t played in the league before. <br /><br />We should instead try to focus on an improved IDL-R type of league. I really like the priv idea that dew came up with, maybe when he gets some time he can explain his intentions here. 