Hey!&nbsp; First, I want to thank you for putting time and thought into the scheduling system.&nbsp; We&#039;re always looking for ways to improve things, so all input is greatly appreciated.&nbsp; I&#039;m not being a dick when I ask people to come up with better ideas, we truly want the IDL to be the best it can be, and if anyone has ideas on how to make it better we want to hear them!<br /><br />I want to be as clear as possible about how the new scheduling system works, so I&#039;ll try and outline the process here:<br /><br />[list]<br />[li]A new IDL week begins.[/li]<br />[li]Players inform their captain as to their availability.[/li]<br />[li]Captains look at their team&#039;s availability as a whole, and submit their available game times to the IDL commissioner.[/li]<br />[li]The IDL commissioner then selects a game time where both teams are available.[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />Of course, life happens, as do miscommunications.&nbsp; Either way, sometimes a declared game time becomes invalid.&nbsp; The rules are not explicit in this case, and the IDL board should make them explicit (we probably will before next week).&nbsp; Generally, however, the IDL commissioner makes a ruling.&nbsp; I don&#039;t speak for Ralphis but I know that he takes a couple things into account:<br /><br />[list]<br />[li]How soon is the upcoming game - would it be too late to change the time?[/li]<br />[li]Player availability - some players have jobs, others live in the UK, is it fair to make them play at 2am?[/li]<br />[li]Team availability - sometimes there&#039;s no other viable game time.[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />There are 2 major reasons we do it this way, instead of doing it all in IRC or the forums where everyone can agree:<br /><br />[list]<br />[li]Prevents teams from using their &quot;availability&quot; against their opponents.[/li]<br />[li]Not everyone has to be online at the same time to set a game time.[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />I understand the appeal of getting everyone together and hashing out a game time, but for those 2 reasons I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s possible.<br /><br />I do like players posting their availability in the sign-up thread.&nbsp; In fact, Ralphis and I are working on some kind of scheduling interface where players can post their availability on the site, and then the commissioner can pick game times from that.&nbsp; If your availability changes, you would just change it on your profile.&nbsp; And from player availability we can get team availability, and from team availability we can get potential game times.&nbsp; We can also see if players are being punkasses and only available for 2 hours on 1 day or something.&nbsp; Also, players from other teams would be unable to view your availability, just your team &amp; the IDL commissioner.<br /><br />Another benefit of the web interface would be that you can change it from anywhere, at any time.&nbsp; So if a player does have some kind of emergency and for some reason they want to update their availability, they don&#039;t need IRC or some random crap, just a browser.<br /><br />I might setup some forum stuff (team availability threads) in the meantime, because the scheduling interface will be complicated to get right and we could use something in the meantime.<br /><br />EDIT:<br />The board has done 2 things:<br />&nbsp; - Made the scheduling system more explicit in the rules (http://www.intldoomleague.org/rules)<br />&nbsp; - Added a Rule Update board to the forums, so that rules don&#039;t get changed silently (which would be bitchass)