When it comes to season length, I propose that:

- Each squad plays every other squad one time
- Playoffs consist of the top 4 highest seeded squads
- Semifinal and finals matches are each best out of three, 15-minute matches
- Semifinals and finals are played on consecutive Sundays, not the same day

I thought playing each other twice was nice. Seemed that the activity during the week picked up rather than most seasons where by week 4 squads were becoming inactive due to their playoff hopes diminishing

@Shas It's a double edged sword. Your playoff hopes can be diminished early in the season then you have to play out the rest of the long season. At least with a short season the turnover rate is quicker.

@Emblem we tried best of 3 for playoff/champ match and it wasn't well received by the community. Certainly something worth polling again though.

I wasn't a fan of double length season at the beginning of it, but this season turned out great with activity, 5 squads active 2 months later, much much further than we have gotten before. Sure if a team loses hopes early they have a increased chance to stop playing, but we have done it once and it was the most active out since season 4-5 and probably more active overall over that season.
I'm for increasing minimum players and keeping salary max around the same. Half the squads were on salary max edge last season but if more squads were closer to max how is that not a good thing for competition

Top 4 squads make it, but 4 and 5 seeds have to have a one off playoff match to get in

This was not the most active season we've had. In fact there was less activity overall than there was in the last 3 seasons.

I could only log in 2 of the 4 'nights that have activity all season, we got sbs every time for multiple hours. If this was the least activity you've had in the last 2-3 seasons than keep this system. Only 2 squads didn't sb every week from what I've seen this season. Glitter rej whyn and pg all got multiple days a week of sbs. Minus bye weeks. To have sbs happen every week that had Sunday matches, and to have this happen all season long, it's definitely a step forward in some aspects.

I only said this was the best I've seen it since season 4-5 (both seasons sbs die out before season ended)
Note I haven't been active the previous 2 seasons before this so maybe it was or wasn't active but this season was definitely active minus Friday and Saturday, at least 2-3 squads each night looking to sb if not more

nos has finally lost his mind

I like the idea of a longer season but at this point it's not worth the risk. A team could be eliminated from playoffs early in the season and would most likely struggle with activity after that. Gotta keep the seasons short n sweet these days.

A one night playoffs/champ match helps us move forward swiftly. I used to dislike this, but it saves us a dead week and allows us to start the next season sooner.

I don't like the idea of a best of 3s because that will create more early match standoffs and lulls in battle while teams find eachother. I think it would affect the efficiency of matches. A positive would be it will allow everyone to replenish ammo. It could be worth a try but is it worth the benefit?

3 games at 15min won't work. To short of a timeframe

Maybe 2 games ~20-25min each and overall plus minus wins.

Is Fausto paying dave and nos by the word or something?

I like the idea of playing each team twice especially with only 6 squads. 5 games is pretty short. The season takes too long though especially with holiday weekends. We can probably find a creative way to do both. What about something like alternating double headers. Example:

Week 1 (game 1,2)
Raw Dogs v PGH
Hypocrites v v2
CK v LTDN

Raw Dogs v Hypocrites
CK v PGH
v2 v LTDN

Week 2 (3)
Raw Dogs v CK
Hyocrites v LTDN
v2 v PGH

Week 3 (4,5)
Week 4 (6)
roster lock?
Week 5 (7,8)
Week 6 (9)
Week 7 (10)

10 games in 7 weeks. The first ones would probably be easy because everyone's still hyped at the beginning of the season. Perhaps reserve players wouldn't have to worry about showing up on sunday and still getting benched because in an hour of play everyone should be able to get in.

Cons -More time commitment on 3 sundays, need refs, might suck for dave if sol doesn't show, what else?

Problem being is most matches don't start til late earliest 830(if that) due to work schedules and then no one wants to play past an 11 scheduled match because of Monday morning work schedules.

Also refs are in huge demand I have no problem reffing more this up and coming season since it only took 2 seasons to finally power my alias( thanks mizz palm slacked )

So many Gods in the bench wishing "Play mastahs" can carry the to the promised land!!!

As discussions continue in the head staff forum I want to give some data to the public to let them see where we're at right now. I put together some data that shows the activity from the last 3 seasons per player.

<a href="http://www.uslzone.com/usl/user_games.php"> http://www.uslzone.com/usl/user_games.php</a>

If you were to modify salaries based on those percentages how would you factor it in? Is there any other data that you'd like to see to try and get better ratings? If so, what?

Nice 90% nerd

Good chart. Can you make it so we can sort by games, activity, and salary?

Fausto and Leo confirmed biggest nerds.

Making the table sortable will take a little work. Will work on that.

dave, want to reply to what I said before? I saw you online multiple times since then.


Salary should be based 60% on skill, 30% on activity and 10% on other (leading, shotcalling etc)

tbh, I think it should be:
10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure and 50% pain
that determines salary.

I don't think we should decrease players ratings who have activity greater than 70 or 75%, or decrease players under 30-40 rating for activity. Those aren't really the players who are being left off of rosters.

Sounds like an interesting approach Apollo, but Staley's has a certain ring to it