(S24) - PT 5 - Trade Ya

[Birdman]

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[ThunderTitan82]

I really like the idea of a trading card system, i think its a fun concept that adds some depth to the experience overall. However like many others, I ask myself, why buy them? Sure theyre cool, but whats the point of buying them other than to simply look at them? Why should I spend my money on them when I could save my money to improve my player? I think obviously adding in trading would be useful to add some more to do with the cards, but that doesnt prevent anyone trading high value cards for their own player or something. I think a possible solution could be to implement dotts cards into the fantasy football portion of the ISFL. Build your team based on the cards you have, buying more cards means chances for better players. It cant go truly off of game performance because there are cards of retired players etc. But the rarity of the card could be the overall rating, bronze in the 60s, silver in the 70s, gold in the 80s, elite in the 90s, and more specialty cards would be 100, or 99, max rating basically, then boom youve got a team, the amount of people that test or know the sim can easily run their own games, not perfect but its a possibility to have an added use for the cards, making the high value cards really valuable because everyone wants to win. Like I said it has flaws and would need to be fleshed out more by someone more qualified than me, but thats an idea that i think could work for the dotts cards to have more use, possibly even a TPE reward for winning dotts fantasy seasons

[JKortesi81]

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[qWest]

There are a few different kinds of programs that I've seen in other card-collection systems that I think would be really cool to see in future Dotts sets. I'm not sure if there is a Hall of Fame series of cards yet, but that would be a great addition, as would i think just a general retirement series or maybe something more like a Legends series. I think this would be a great way to recognize all types of players that may not get recognition in the HoF, but are nevertheless critical to the story of the ISFL. These could be special cards added after a player's retirement if that player has reached a peak of more than 1k TPE that displays the general career achievements of that player. Alternatively, these could be more akin to Legends series in the past that just generally highlight important players in the league, ranging anywhere from historical greats like Mike Boss or Franklin Armstrong to the bigger meme players in the league like a Gimmy or an SJJ. Another great thing to add would be something like a Golden Ticket program, wherein a limited number of Golden Tickets would be in packs at an extremely low pull rate. These tickets would grant the person that pulls it from a pack to work with the Dotts team and create a card for the player of their choice which would then be released as a rare series of super cool cards in packs for everyone.

[Mojojojo]

As someone who is new to the league, I don’t have much experience with the league economy. But from what I have learned through the locker room chatter, the introduction of Dotts seems like too blunt an instrument to really target the issue mentioned in the prompt: to increase the value of contracts and free agency. While I think that many of the responses to this point task so far have done a good job of pointing out how the introduction of an alternative market for money will not solve the misalignment of incentives inherent in free agency (including this one), I have not seen many who pose an idea for a solution. So, I would like to put forward one idea: a relocation bonus.

This idea comes from the headhunting practices of large corporate entities. Fast-paced and competitive companies have recognized that any boost in earnings from a job change must compensate for the disruption and uncertainty of leaving a “known work environment” (or locker room). To help offset the costs (both monetary and social) of moving experienced by employees, many companies not only provide an increase in salary (or the contract value in this case), but also a relocation bonus. The league could consider awarding some fixed, lump sum of money to all free agency players that accept contracts with other teams. This would make it more attractive to switch teams (to receive a larger contract plus the league bonus) rather than take the minimum contract value to stick with their existing team. This idea could be combined with others, such as an increase in the minimum contract.

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[bex]

I love Dotts as a concept! I think it's so intensely cool to see players of the league recognized in this way, and it helps feel like our league is legit, so to speak. I don't personally buy cards, but I know people have been really hyped about them! Seeing all the buzz around them has been absolutely amazing. One thing I do think that I would love to see would be to have our league's User Hall of Fame represented. However, I don't think you could get away with just the visual side of the card. For these cards, I'd love to be able to read a little summary of what that user did to earn their spot in the Hall. It's more research and writing-intensive than other series ideas, perhaps, but it would be yet another amazing way to commemorate the people who have really invested time, money, energy, and ideas to make our league what it is today. Now, I know the User Hall of Fame is still a fairly new feature, but I think that once there are enough to warrant a full launch, this is a series I'd be very excited about. Along the same lines, you could add Most Dedicated Member cards. I'd definitely start buying packs in the hunt for my MDM card.

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[SomeSay...]

Written Option: For people with no experience with trading cards, write 200 words or more on the league economy. One of the primary aims of Dotts is to take money out of circulation to hypothetically increase the value of contracts and free agency. What other ways do you think that this problem could be solved? If you were given the reigns as league commissioner, how would you incentivize people to not take minimum contracts? This could range anywhere from altering the salary cap, raising TPE salary minimums, or another way to pull money out of the economy.

So my take on what could help increase the value of contracts and Free Agency would honestly to abolish paid media or have a cap on media earnings for the season. Anyone can basically piece together enough media to buy Equipment and some people make a killing doing it. A cap on GFX as well. Or have players pay the maker league money for GFX to have a supply and demand to it. This way you increase contract size and overall team cap. Great players get paid and have a easy path for equipment. Sub-par or average or new players will get less but can use media or job or gfx to supplement the income offset to purchase T6. Then those who max earn are then more productive faster and faster to bigger contracts to have to do less work to earn money, then non max earners obviously will have lower contracts and need to find other avenues to get to what could be a "cap" on income per year that way your making enough through salary and jobs to offord 1M weeklys +T6.

Reading this back to myself it does sound kind of confusing but I think with tweaks or someone else throwing some adjustment to it. It could work .... A max income per year "cap" which would be equivalent to all 1M weekly training and T6 Equipment.... Then up salary cap a bit but not enough for teams to pay everyone max money... This way good player can negotiate a large contract and have to do less side stuff and it gets them involved and max FA exciting. Fuck maybe I'm wrong but hopefully this kind of makes sense.

[Frick_Nasty]

Ok I love this weeks point task edition number five of the 24th season of the international simulation football league. The topic is pertaining to the Dotts trading card system. I am absolutely in love with the program. I am concerned I will spend all my money trying to obtain my three different Mo Berry player cards. I wish trading was possible because I would trade everything for these three cards. A series I would like to see would be the fab v of the season 14 san Antonio Marshals. It would be awesome to see five cards of Mo Berry, Nero Alexander, Walt Green, Morgan Marshall and Quentin Bode all in the San Antonio Marshals green one more time. Could spice it up with the signatures of all five of them as well. Hell you could just do a series on the season 15 class because we were the best class to ever come into existence and save the league as well. You could have the strangling secondary of the Portland Pythons or the 3 linebackers of the Palm Beach Solar Bears Palm Beach Penetrators. The original wall of Tijuana. Like I said there are a ton of different special cards you could make from the greatest draft class of all time.

[Arkz]

So lets talk about Dotts. The trading card system is an interesting way to introduce ways that people can spend money without getting an on-the-field-advantage. That's the biggest problem with the balance for money in the game. If it swings too far in one way or the other, either contracts are highly de-valued or media is highly de-valued. The solution is then to introduce ways people can spend money that won't impact their player, and that's hard. Dotts are an interesting way to address this, but I think there's more that can be done. The ISFL (and DSFL) have rich histories that Dotts can exploit. Everyone knows the important players of the S22 class, but what about the Ultimus champs from S4? What about introducing special "Legacy" cards that highlight great champions or performers of the past? Its a good way to make sure the history of the league stays fresh, while being able to introduce cool and interesting cards into the rotation. Yellowknife players would love cards highlighting the impact players from their first Ultimus victory, for example. In a related note, cards based on real people is not a good idea. People are complicated, and their relationship with the league and their peers will be complicated as well. Players are different. They are an avatar, and usually subject to the weird randomness of the sim. So if you get a card you're disappointed with, its probably because you're unfamiliar with the player or the player just didn't have that great of a career. Feeling disappointed that you pulled a real person from the community is a different experience, and I think will result in hurt feelings. There's more than enough players and teams from the league's history to highlight without going there. 

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[Starboy]

Although there are plenty of great cards and features with the Dotts cards, there are still plenty of improvements to be made with future series along with different types of cards or rarities involved with helping avoid dual cards. However, I think that there could be a way to both cut down on the old cards that nobody really knows anymore and also improve on the younger players’ experience with the Dotts cards along with getting new faces around. Introducing a “Rising Stars” series featuring the DSFL awards winners could be a great way to include the best and freshest faces of the DSFL before they get into the ISFL in order to help get them excited. Seeing themselves on special awards could be a way to help increase activity with some people along with getting more players to work harder in order to get their own special cards. I understand that there isn’t a lot of people that care about the DSFL, but there are still some of those that like it and enjoy seeing all of the new people with hopes that they become the next legends in the league. The best way to celebrate the supposed “requirement” for active players these days is to reward those most active players with a special series.