Too many things to quote.<br /><br />First of all, heh, I didn&#039;t mean to raise THOSE 5 questions as quotable topics.&nbsp; Probably none of those will ever happen except for (hopefully) the draft show and (hopefully not) fewer teams.<br /><br />I just wanted to know what would make the league more fun for you in general.&nbsp; As another example (which I am in support of, and which might happen), it has been suggested that we should re-introduce naming your own team.&nbsp; It was hilarious and a lot of fun, and captains can still keep their team name from season to season (or not!).<br /><br />There were two ideas I really liked so far in this thread.&nbsp; One is Josh&#039;s idea about weekly awards (and radio shows and newsfeeds and other IDL hype).&nbsp; We need to get hyped!&nbsp; On the other hand, I share his sentiment that the IDL shouldn&#039;t be hardcore serious.&nbsp; Nobody should be trying to prove anything; we&#039;re just playing fun games for fun.<br /><br />The other was Stallion&#039;s idea about having more shorter seasons.&nbsp; He&#039;s right that the draft and beginning/end of each season is the most fun, and any super-stacked or disaster teams will be short-lived.&nbsp; I would be in favor of having something like 4 6-week seasons a year.&nbsp; That way if you&#039;re gone for a month you can still play in 3/4 seasons instead of missing half a year of IDL.&nbsp; I [i]really[/i] like this idea.<br /><br />And now for some administrative things:<br /><br />We (board/commish) already decided to determine the number of teams after we see how many players sign up and how many want to cap, but I&#039;m glad everybody agrees with this.&nbsp; We would like to have 12 teams if possible so that as many people as possible get to play.&nbsp; If however we do not have enough players (not enough _good_ players, but enough players at all) for 12 teams or there are not 12 willing and responsible captains, then we will be forced to reduce the league back to 8 or 10 teams.<br /><br />We also are committed to making sure demo penalties are strictly enforced this season without exception.&nbsp; I personally don&#039;t think we need to increase the penalties right now to make it more serious, just make sure that the current penalties are enforced.<br /><br />Hopefully we will have more help with demos.&nbsp; As far as I know, Mike and Ralph can continue to help us out, Gilga said he will help, Saber is willing to learn how, I should probably learn how, Lanada has shown back up on the scene, we should be fine.<br /><br />As far as forfeit penalties go, the penalty for not fielding a team [i]is[/i] forfeiture, a guaranteed loss (and win for the other team), which is supposed to be a deterrent.&nbsp; Since this is automatically enforced and apparently still isn&#039;t enough, maybe we can tack on additional powerplays in following rounds, or, alternatively, not let people cap who willingly cause repeated forfeits.&nbsp; This latter idea was rejected by other board members, so perhaps we can discuss the first.<br /><br />As far as kicking players who suck at showing up and not lying: we already do this with captains, so of course we should do it with players.&nbsp; The problem is (take Godlike), once the player disappears, there is nothing left to kick out.&nbsp; If your player does this, trade them to the FA.&nbsp; Of course, we do not want to see them picked up by another team, only to magically start showing up again.&nbsp; So yes, Hatred, I like this idea.&nbsp; If a player is blatantly unruly or inactive, he should be suspended for the rest of the season.<br /><br />We will probably keep trading and finalize the rules soonish (well before the draft).&nbsp; It is subject to abuse, but with freedom comes responsibility.<br /><br />I did some stats of my own on record standard deviations and parity throughout the seasons.&nbsp; I will post an excel file in another thread.<br /><br />Gilgamesh, two things I wanted to clarify: Even though Dew and Ladna already pointed this out, I want to make sure you understand.&nbsp; When you say there were no forfeits in seasons 4 and 5, that doesn&#039;t mean anything if there were any 2v3&#039;s, 1v3&#039;s, 2v2&#039;s, 1v2&#039;s or 1v1&#039;s because under the current system they would have been forfeits, and I&#039;m pretty sure there were but can&#039;t verify this because aliases are incomplete for those seasons (although as to last season you&#039;re correct, but certainly it was better than usual).&nbsp; The second thing is that it seems like you think there are people who wanted to be captains but who did not cap.&nbsp; This is false.&nbsp; Everybody who wanted to be a captain was made a captain, and we made some people captains who didn&#039;t want to be captains.&nbsp; If you know of anybody who wants to be a captain, let us know, or have them let us know, and we will probably let them be a captain.<br /><br />More importantly, thanks to everybody for your contributions in this discussion.