NDL:L - Format Discussion

[ReignOnU]

I've put a poll up to vote in for the level of teams.

Other things we'll need to finalize in the coming days are the number of teams (24/32), championship format (2 divisions, top 2 meet; 4/8 team playoff; bowl games), stats required or not (I'm willing to do a full AA team if we want to keep them).

EDIT: 2 more items - Draft setup (maybe just do a submitted list and announce teams is the easiest); When do we start (I'm free all weekend!)

Bring up anything else you might be able to think of. Obviously game play rules are the same as the NDL.

[Weasel]

Honestly Id rather not bother with stats, I like the idea of just getting extra games in without the hassle. With regards to team # or playoff, I was never in the Lightning league before so I cant really comment

[huskerskev84]

I'd prefer stats. At the least maybe could do away with some of the less tedious stats (kicking, punting, KR, PR). If we don't do stats, no reason whatsoever to pay for leaguedaddy though. We could just post the results in a forum thread and have a few people designated to update records.

[tig5165]

yeah it don't matter to me about stats....we can have them or not....Only thing is if you don't have stats then really no real reason for LD...I am cool whichever way...

[brett11253]

Stats or no stats were still playing games so I'm cool with both. I was thinking of maybe 32 teams. seeing we have 35 people already on the list 32 would work easily. and have the top 16 play in a tournament and the bottom 16 play in an NIT type tournament as well. Allows for everyone to continue playing. Since that's what we are doing this league for. Waiting for playoffs to end if you don't make it would just kill the chance of another season for me.

[ReignOnU]

Stats or no stats were still playing games so I'm cool with both. I was thinking of maybe 32 teams. seeing we have 35 people already on the list 32 would work easily. and have the top 16 play in a tournament and the bottom 16 play in an NIT type tournament as well. Allows for everyone to continue playing. Since that's what we are doing this league for. Waiting for playoffs to end if you don't make it would just kill the chance of another season for me.

Nice idea, let's see what others think.

[ReignOnU]

Going to throw this out there and see what you guys think. If I setup LD for 1 month, that gives us about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks to play the regular season, then 1 to 1 1/2 weeks for playoffs. A 16 team playoff means 4 rounds that would need to be played sequentially. (Unless we just handled the playoffs on the message board)

As for start timing... something else I'd like to toss around:

If we can get 32 confirmed, I can post a draft order fairly quick and then if I had the draft lists by Sat. @ Noon, I could open the league Sat night or Sun morning. So this could all happen pretty fast if everyone is interested in that.

[brett11253]

Playoffs could easily be done on the boards if you really wanted to get LD we could just use that for the reg season. Gives up alittle more time if needed.

[JohnnyP]

Going to throw this out there and see what you guys think. If I setup LD for 1 month, that gives us about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks to play the regular season, then 1 to 1 1/2 weeks for playoffs. A 16 team playoff means 4 rounds that would need to be played sequentially. (Unless we just handled the playoffs on the message board)

As for start timing... something else I'd like to toss around:

If we can get 32 confirmed, I can post a draft order fairly quick and then if I had the draft lists by Sat. @ Noon, I could open the league Sat night or Sun morning. So this could all happen pretty fast if everyone is interested in that.

I would be down if I get confirmed

[Nole4real]

also fyi

32 teams is was what i went with last time

sucked some didnt get in but it made it easy to replace guys who werent playing

BIGGEST/BEST thing about it is taking the EXACT NFL schedule and simply plugging it into LD

...but that was using the full 16 game / 17 week season....which may be why we didnt finish last time

[ReignOnU]

also fyi

32 teams is was what i went with last time

sucked some didnt get in but it made it easy to replace guys who werent playing

BIGGEST/BEST thing about it is taking the EXACT NFL schedule and simply plugging it into LD

...but that was using the full 16 game / 17 week season....which may be why we didnt finish last time

Yeah, I'm pretty torn on this because we have A LOT of people that are wanting to keep playing. So I'd definitely love to hear more conversation on this. Initially talking with Brett, we'd try to get everyone in (would probably have to keep it in blocks of 4) and then if we played a 2nd season, cut out the slackers.

I'd really hope that 3 seasons through the game, that the only people that are interested are the guys that KNOW they can get 12 games in, in 3, maybe 4 weeks. It seems easy in principle, but you should be able to judge it by your general availability and if you've fallen behind much in our regular seasons.

For the schedule, I was just going to use a standard format. Break the conferences up after the teams are picked. I don't know about everyone else, but I'd love to play as many different coaches as I can.

[ReignOnU]

Nole - Do you remember about how many guys you had that fell off and didn't get their games in? If it's just in the 2-3 range, I think we're ok taking as many as we can in multiples of 4. If it was a larger problem, then maybe we should go with a wait list.

[brett11253]

I like the idea with going with as many as we can get. If we have to we can always rearrange things if needed. I don't see too many people dropping out.

[huskerskev84]

Yea I would hope that very few fall out. I understand things come up, but in general, I think by now guys would know if they will want and be able to get their games in.

[ReignOnU]

Looking to confirm the 24, 28 or 32 teams involved by noon(ish) tomorrow. (maybe even tonight, I've sent out a PM to a few guys that might have overlooked this)

Draft order will be reverse order of overall career record (including this season at the time I pull the records).

Likely going to be B and under teams, but we'll let a few more votes in until we're closer to a majority decision.

Starting thinking about your draft list now. (or if you want, make it)

[buckeye76]

I like the 16 team tpurny for top and bottom. As for stats i dont mind them mayb no kicking punting prs or kr or blocking.