[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<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 />[/quote]<br /><br />No but it might have let him construct a team that wasn&#039;t so dependent on him to do well. It&#039;s really funny how narrowly you read my comments. Let&#039;s take a look at more ignorant things you said.<br /><br />[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<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 />[/quote]<br /><br />From what I hear you decided to play without him on a number of occasions and went with an Oath/Dev combo. I&#039;m not too clear on the details but really last season you have a stellar chance to win and you botched it big time. Can&#039;t pin it on mike when it&#039;s chronic failure!<br /><br />[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<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. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yes and we would have drafted Xray and won anyway. That is because Fast quitting our team wouldn&#039;t have tanked us Tai. Because Ralph had a player he choose and could rely on. Franchising stabilizing teams that way is a point I tried to make. You are very dense.<br /><br />[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<br />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 />[/quote]<br /><br />This whole thing is mostly nonsense. JKist was traded to SUC after SPE got a losing record and was floundering. Also he was traded for Mortal (undefeated at the time). Mortal is a great player and it is my opinion that a team of Fast, Nero, Dewww and Mortal would have not only made playoffs but might have gone as far as conference. Fast bailed because he was unhappy with his captain and lame in general. Not even franchising will fix that.<br /><br />[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<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 />[/quote]<br /><br />No I meant 3 wins. Don&#039;t correct me you cockeyed faggot. One win against DMR and one against a Denny-less SPE. Until this week they were a flop. 3-1-1 isn&#039;t terrible, but it&#039;s not what they are capable of. I do think they&#039;ll do okay but they certainly weren&#039;t a tough team when I played them.<br /><br />[quote author=Tai link=topic=232.msg2038#msg2038 date=1278744924]<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?<br />[/quote]<br /><br />You misunderstand. I&#039;m not blaming any of these people for all of IDL&#039;s troubles. I&#039;m saying that franchising, while difficult to discern for some uneducated inmates, fixed a lot of problems on an interpersonal level. It also added a lot of talent that you guys are so adamantly pointing to as a cause for this seasons...underwhelming-ness.<br /><br />Cool, you guys all like this system. It&#039;s okay I guess. Statistically it has very little difference from franchising, if just a little more of a disparity in team records. Let&#039;s assume it&#039;s all just coincidence that more trades have happened this season than probably ever before in IDL and our player base is dwindling. It will continue to dwindle if the prospect of being on Tai&#039;s team looms in the distance I assure you.