Also new post because the last one was too good to disturb.<br /><br />I would like to say first before I get into the meat of the post that teams in the middle or near the top of the first round usually do pretty well, since if you pick first, sure you get a great player, but who&#039;s left at #24? IDL doesn&#039;t work off one or two great players (if you count the captain if he&#039;s really good!) so really the further down you are but not necessarily #8 or #9 I think the better your chances are to get an above average well-rounded team. But that&#039;s all conjecture and I don&#039;t have stats to back it up cause I don&#039;t want to look and I&#039;m lazy. Theorycrafting owns.<br /><br />[quote author=HumanBones link=topic=433.msg4038#msg4038 date=1305151743]<br />As far as going down to 8 captains, it&#039;s not going to happen [b]this season[/b]. I think some of us are a bit quick to judge, and not until the end of this season can we look at doing an overhaul such as that. Consistently bringing in new captains is an important part of the league and it&#039;s future. I also feel as though last season was pretty successful with the 12-team system. I like skill being spread out, too many times in the past have we seen stacked teams. [b]I&#039;m not ruling out a change in the future[/b], but I think right now we need to stay put and see how this works out.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I think 12 captains can work if you get enough people who sign up and play.<br /><br />[img]http://img-s3-01.mytextgraphics.com/sparklee/2011/05/13/93edfe260007d08116970d5c6003c5a5.gif[/img]<br /><br />There are 12 captains for 12 teams. This means 48 players total if each team consists of 4 players. 12 of those players are the captains themselves. This leaves 36 players. There are 25 signups confirmed for the player pool.<br /><br />36 - 25 = 11.<br /><br />We need 11 more signups. If you make sure each team has a full roster with the 25 available signups, this means 3 teams will not have any players and one team will only have one player besides the captain. That and even if you get 11 more players, that leaves absolutely no wiggle room for any player that happens to drop out or never show up.<br /><br />Since you show unwillingness to drop to 8 teams, what must happen is either endless delays as you bug people to reluctantly sign up, or slash the 4th spot from all teams so that spots can be filled and a league can actually take place. No non-2v3 rule? Oh well, what are your other options? Be realistic.<br /><br />