(08-27-2020, 09:25 AM)TubbyTim69 Wrote: Are we able to see what their bids looked like? Going tinto this bidding process me and eph had no way to know what was to go into the bid. Eph made a nice to the point document as to why we should be chosen but then until the announcement yesterday heard nothing. We kind of presumed there would be a little interview process where we would share our plans for the team (ie expansion draft plans, draft plans, how we're going to handle other things). We had all this planned up but we had no idea what this whole process was like. Knowing we finished 4th in Voting hurts a little more knowing that if we knew we had to add that type of information into the bid it could've bumped us up to the top 2. I'd just like to see what a winning bid looks like for future reference and I think it would also help other people when expansion comes around again. This was the first time I was on this end of expansion and really had no idea what had to go into a bid.
Intended to respond on this at the time and it slipped off my radar but wanted to give you a response cause there were some good points raised.
Regarding sharing, I think it would be good to share examples of good bids ahead of future expansion. If people want to share their bids they are of course welcome to - since we didn't state they were going to be public, I'm not comfortable sharing them on behalf of the bids. Also some include detailed strategy stuff that they might not want to be shared at this time.
We could definitely do a better job of being clearer in future - we ended up having to catch up a bit more than we'd like timing wise for this draft cause things just tend to take longer than you expect.
Related to that - interviews would definitely be ideal and maybe in a future expansion we can get our shit together in time to allow for that. However they do have a lot of logistical challenges. Just the 5 current ISFL HO members are spread across 4 different time zones with up to 9 hours time difference. That's before you factor in availability between jobs and real life obligations. So everything ends up often having a long time delay if you actually want back and forth (in my experience this is even still an issue when people in the same time zone are online). This is also for 18 different bids from 32 different people. So you can quickly see what a big time sink this could become.