I think something that the league could use is a new, more automated player update system and/or banking system. I know that it would be a *lot* of work and that JCink makes it a bit difficult to do so, but we're dreaming right now okay?
There are often errors when doing player updates and assigning player TPE, and this leads to problems in regression and contract negotiations. Having a computerized database of all the TPE players have earned would make tracking that easier and put everything in one place, and that can be combined with an updating system that is connected to that which automatically checks that the updates are correct and that the claims are valid. It would save the updating team a lot of time and would save the players a lot of time as the claims could automatically pop into the system for them.
Again, and this is the big problem, is that this would have to be done on a place separate from the forums. It's good to keep everything centered in the same place, and forcing users to jump through many hoops to get things done just makes things less convenient. Plus, there would be a huge upfront cost in time to make the program and killing bugs that it may not even be worth it. I'm sure the great people in the development team have thought about it, and I believe it would be very difficult to implement.
But if there was a sim league genie and I could wish for something to make the league better (that didn't involve giving the Yeti a ring) that would be it.
There are often errors when doing player updates and assigning player TPE, and this leads to problems in regression and contract negotiations. Having a computerized database of all the TPE players have earned would make tracking that easier and put everything in one place, and that can be combined with an updating system that is connected to that which automatically checks that the updates are correct and that the claims are valid. It would save the updating team a lot of time and would save the players a lot of time as the claims could automatically pop into the system for them.
Again, and this is the big problem, is that this would have to be done on a place separate from the forums. It's good to keep everything centered in the same place, and forcing users to jump through many hoops to get things done just makes things less convenient. Plus, there would be a huge upfront cost in time to make the program and killing bugs that it may not even be worth it. I'm sure the great people in the development team have thought about it, and I believe it would be very difficult to implement.
But if there was a sim league genie and I could wish for something to make the league better (that didn't involve giving the Yeti a ring) that would be it.