let me know by the end of the week if you guys are playing, i have some work arounds ill get into later.
anyhow, i understand why people wouldn't want to play but i don't agree with it. i think we all work the 8 to 5. i think we all have girlfriends or wives or mistresses or whatever. we all have buddies, we all have football teams we watch on sundays, we all have family, etc. so i get that, i get why you wouldn't have time for an online league.
i could kind of see why entering your stats is a sticking point, but not if you were honestly enthusiastic about running an online league and having an online league the way it was meant to be.
you dont want to take the 5 minutes it takes to enter stats? why? is it because it's tedious or because you honestly don't have the time? if it's the latter i can't see it. what if we were playing 7 min quaters, what if a game went into overtime, what if the game had an excessive amount of passing and the clock just didn't move? there is also the fact that this years madden games PURPOSELY run shorter thanks to EA making the cutscenes unskippable between plays. example: you run a running play, you are tackled, the camera sits on the field for a good 5 seconds running 5 seconds off the clock. this wasn't so in years past.
so i think this entire issue is due to the perception that the games are taking longer, or you think its taking forever to enter the stats, or you are spoiled by NCAA's fancy setup. but i doubt in all reality it is actually lacking the time to enter the stats. and if that's the case, if the reason you aren't playing is because you have to take 5 minutes to enter stats and thus simulate a real league (and why would you want it any other way), then it's probably best you don't play.
you guys know we've run some of these leagues with as little as 12 people, and it works. so don't think you owe it to myself or the league itself to play. i would rather you just don't play then drop out in week 7.
the entire reason we dont use EA's shitty system is that it is bare bones. you get the player stats and thats it. you dont get a detailed summary of each game, you dont get team stats, you dont get a lot of the things that make online leagues fun. and frankly i would rather "waste" 5 minutes entering stats than waste an hour of my life playing in EA's online leagues when that's not what i want this league to be. THAT would be a true waste.
it sucks to have you guys go because you are vets and its always fun to play against the people you've played against for years and who you've developed a rivalry with over the years in league play. you can say "well i can always play them whenever", but there is a different vibe around the games when you know it is in league play. you play different and although the game itself doesn't express it there is a kind of atmosphere created by the league itself.
anyhow, let me know by the end of this week, thats when league daddy goes up!
