About a year ago I sent up a list of suggestions to JDB and I have seen some of these actually get implemented (not saying because of me) most notably the highly enhanced players of the week/year stuff.

Thats a very cool feature that adds a great new level of detail (although the selection criteria needs a touch up, particularly in the case of defensive backs)

However this isn't about that. Its about another of the suggestion thats time has definitely come in my opinion.

There needs to be a public database of owners records across all leagues. I suggested this once before as a 'cool feature', but it occurs to me now that we need to give league admins (something that didn't exist before) this information when they put together new leagues, and prospective owners some idea of what they might be getting into when they join one.

The idea is a result of my own experiences.

I did a quick tally and my VERY ROUGH estimate is that I have completed 30 seasons in MFN. That is 480 games... of which I would bet I have won well over 400 of them. I have won the league championship 14 times in these seasons and lost that game four times. I have won the title at least once in every league where I participated in allocation. I have missed the playoffs once and have had one losing season.

I know this isn't the best record and not even close to the largest body of work, but I ALSO know that in some cases, especially recently, newer guys in the leagues that I play in will lose interest or bail altogether once it becomes apparent that only about 6-10 teams in the league have any chance of contending for a championship.

What is worse is that when we face off head to head they literally have no shot at winning. THERE ARE NO UPSETS IN MFN. The better team wins... yes if its close it can be a toss up and very random, but a bad or mediocre team simply NEVER defeats a good one.

Lets get all this info out in the open.

There are several advantages to this.

First off and as I alluded to earlier, if an admin is putting together a league, he can choose to craft it with the kinds of players he wants. Maybe it'll be a bunch of former league champs, or perhaps no one who has more than 7 seasons total. Maybe is an even spectrum or if he's a power mad goof his (short-lived) league will only have guys he thinks he can beat... whatever.

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Perhaps more importantly it creates the potential for leagues specifically designed for guys who are just getting started, or are good but want to get better etc. As it stands one or two experienced guys can trash a whole league and then it just isn't fun.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO WIN AND IMPROVE and I think this one tool could make that FAR more possible.

... and of course it would be cool to see it all.

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My BONUS idea is even cooler, but would be much harder to implement.. a grand allocation circuit.

Take say the 160 most experienced owners (that would want to participate) and seed them one team a piece in five leagues. Best/most experience in league A... and on down to league E. At the conclusion of each season the top three from E though B move up to the next league, bottom three from A through D move down. Just like English Premier League Soccer. It would be wicked cool and would generate a TON of interest.

But for now, lets get that database up.

Total Season Completed.
Total Wins
Losses (and ties)
W/L pct.
Playoff App
Playoff W/L
Pct
Pct of years in playoffs
Div champs
Pct of Div champs
Conf champs
Pct of cons champs
Titles
Pct of Titles


Discuss if you please.

I’m the best ever......just ask me.

OK so who is the best ever Mcarovil??

btw Mcarovil i was thinking of that i want to go to Mars and i want to be the president of Mars and i need few good people on my staff so are you down for it??

also btw i am going to build a wall on Mars and make Planet Earth pay for it.

I’m the best ever......just ask me.

Ha ha. I don’t even know what that means. I was clearly joking, but Mars sounds pretty cool. They have MFN there?

I can't say I entirely agree with these ideas... My first football team that I took control of (and ill get back to this in a little bit), from scratch even, was a rival of another team in the league that had blown us out every time we played. Their first season, 15-1, or 16-0, I don't remember, its not THAT important. They beat us in the conference championship, of course, but went on to get shutout in the league championship to a team that nobody thought would win (almost Cinderella story-ish had it not been an online game). Anyways, another season finishes, and again its both of our teams taking first round byes in the playoffs. His team gets upset by a WILDCARD team. This time, I go all the way to the league championship. I can't remember the score, but I would like to say it was close. I would also like to say that I would have thought my team was better, but nope. We had fought injuries the later half of the season and yada yada, we still lost so it doesn't matter. So I do think that upsets happen in this league, I think that its more of who has a better game plan.

The idea that new people should stick with new people, while the experienced people stick together is ludicrous. I quit a league because I didn't know what I was doing, the league was not very active, and/or I was picking up more hours at work. Pick one, I don't care. I have just recently joined a league with owners such as Bryson, and Otterpop. Otterpop and I share the same division. I don't know the other guys yet, but I will soon. I'm not saying I'm going to beat half of these guys, ****, if Bryson puts up 80 points on me, then he puts up 80 points on me. But that will be the only time Bryson puts up 80 points on me. I can take an *** whooping, and learn from it. I took over a decent team, but I also joined because of experience I will get from it.