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averagejoe
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders.
This is not about the Morgan Freeman movie.
Timeline
While still in preseason, Wil (who essentially created the league and proposed/inaugurated all of the MBBRL rules) added the “spice” of abandoning the bottom 2 “B” league teams into Oblivion on his August 18th, 2014 post. Wil also posted this on the “B” league thread.
At the time, not too many commented about the mention of “oblivion” other than brief notations from both Bandit and Barilko within 24 hours of Wil’s posting.
When the push came for someone to take over an abandon “B” team in early October, the subject of oblivion was raised on the [FONT="]MBBRL "B" Team opening, inquire within [/FONT][FONT="]thread, specifically on page 3.[/FONT]
Microwahevo posed this question/comment October 3 on that thread:
I have a question about "being thrown into oblivion". While that sounds great and all, why do we throw anyone into oblivion? I understand that two(or 4) move down from A and vice versa for B, but why do we need to replace anyone from B if they finish last and 2nd to last?
It seems A has a really tight locked core and B seems to be generating one as well. This seems like it could be a league full of guys for years on end. Why ruin that? What if a really good owner simply caught the injury bug one year? Or his team simply failed to meet expectations? Should that owner be kicked out even though he remains a solid owner?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of why this "oblivion tossing" would have to take place. Help?
Harold Seattle, TKO, and Chef agreed with Micro’s thoughts. In fact, TKO added the paradoxical retort:
Unmatched Level of the MBBRL
I respect all of this, particularly the effort that Wil had put forth in establishing the MBBRL. Without his efforts, the league would not have been as enjoyable or competitive. I also appreciate the level of enthusiasm by all of the MBBRL members. I’m sure that we have all experienced what happens in other leagues when the interest of an owner or two begins to wane. And Treff has filled in as co-commish outstandingly.
Oblivion - The Discussion
My view is to seriously discuss this topic of oblivion while the season is still playing out. In part because no one has yet been jettisoned to oblivion yet, so we can all have a non-bias conversation about it.
I’d also like to add that I agree with Micro and TKO’s opinions.
While still in preseason, Wil (who essentially created the league and proposed/inaugurated all of the MBBRL rules) added the “spice” of abandoning the bottom 2 “B” league teams into Oblivion on his August 18th, 2014 post. Wil also posted this on the “B” league thread.
At the time, not too many commented about the mention of “oblivion” other than brief notations from both Bandit and Barilko within 24 hours of Wil’s posting.
When the push came for someone to take over an abandon “B” team in early October, the subject of oblivion was raised on the [FONT="]MBBRL "B" Team opening, inquire within [/FONT][FONT="]thread, specifically on page 3.[/FONT]
Microwahevo posed this question/comment October 3 on that thread:
I have a question about "being thrown into oblivion". While that sounds great and all, why do we throw anyone into oblivion? I understand that two(or 4) move down from A and vice versa for B, but why do we need to replace anyone from B if they finish last and 2nd to last?
It seems A has a really tight locked core and B seems to be generating one as well. This seems like it could be a league full of guys for years on end. Why ruin that? What if a really good owner simply caught the injury bug one year? Or his team simply failed to meet expectations? Should that owner be kicked out even though he remains a solid owner?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of why this "oblivion tossing" would have to take place. Help?
Harold Seattle, TKO, and Chef agreed with Micro’s thoughts. In fact, TKO added the paradoxical retort:
“If the goal is to "expand" and have spots available every year for newcomers, I think the chance at hitting more SFNL's increases.”
Treff politely asked all to shelf the topic since the issue at that time was finding a replacement owner. So we did.
Unmatched Level of the MBBRL
I respect all of this, particularly the effort that Wil had put forth in establishing the MBBRL. Without his efforts, the league would not have been as enjoyable or competitive. I also appreciate the level of enthusiasm by all of the MBBRL members. I’m sure that we have all experienced what happens in other leagues when the interest of an owner or two begins to wane. And Treff has filled in as co-commish outstandingly.
Oblivion - The Discussion
My view is to seriously discuss this topic of oblivion while the season is still playing out. In part because no one has yet been jettisoned to oblivion yet, so we can all have a non-bias conversation about it.
I’d also like to add that I agree with Micro and TKO’s opinions.