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ItDoesntMatter wrote:

yeah to me it feels like you're actively hurting your team by making this deal and that's been something we've been trying to discourage. I don't want to try to veto the deal since the pick and the one after it has already been made, and I don't think there's any ill intent by either party, it's just a really weird choice and it doesn't give me a whole lot of faith that you're trying to be competitive. just my two cents tho

I understand where you're coming from with this, but just like I told Gritty when I submitted my keepers, if my intentions were to tank, I wouldn't even be in this league in the first place.

Wallflower wrote:

All good, we just wanted to know if that was what was intended. It's obviously your choice, we just want to make sure things are fair. I assume for most of us, it is just general intuition that says that if a team moves down they should be getting something else in return, so we wanted to know why that wasn't the case here. But yeah, if you are okay with the move, then it is fine by me.

Like I mentioned earlier, since it was only two spots down, I didn't think it warranted any sort of extra compensation. It's not like there are only two top level talents left on the board and that I'd be screwed if I traded down. If Gritty were further down the draft order, then I'd want more compensation, but since it was only from #2 to #4, I felt like it was fair enough just swapping picks.

Gritty wrote:

Keepers
The keeper system will remain the same for this season. Dan O'Mac has put together the following database for this year's keepers. You will NOT be required to submit keepers until after the Rookie Draft. But we thought that it would be helpful for you to see your potential roster before you develop your rookie draft strategy. Please check out the 'budget remaining' under your team. Your team will need to be at zero or positive $ before the Free Agency Draft closer to the start of the season. We are officially at the point where people will have to make really tough decisions about their rosters. This will increase more roster turnover and parity in the league.

If we already have our keepers picked for the season, are we able to submit them now?

Wallflower wrote:

Okay, so it sounds like you have a good set of ideas to go with. It seems like at this point it is a very small sports considering most leagues are regional.

So with the regional leagues, the way I have it set up is that they are all part of a larger Federation/Association that oversees everything for the sport (think the Football Association in England).

Wallflower wrote:

It's a little difficult to like see very organic ways of expanding considering it's not super easy to play in schools or be introduced to younger people. Maybe look at the rise of trampoline parks, maybe that plays into people getting into the sport. Of course, it's fiction so you can make stuff happen to help the story expand further.

This is where I incorporate a little bit of fiction. In the very early days of the sport, I was thinking that they would use some sort of Olympic-style trampoline (even though Trampolining did not become an Olympic event until 2000. I also don't know if those types of trampolines would've been invented/common in the mid-late 1970's.). Then, once the sport grows locally, they would partner with a trampoline company to create a trampoline that was more suitable for this type of sport (much akin to what you'd see in a modern trampoline park).
I wanted Trampolineball to be a more modern sport, but I also wanted it to have a little bit of a history as well, so I would think that this sport could help speed up the popularity of trampoline parks, as the sport would be gaining in popularity across the nation in the 80's and 90's.

Wallflower wrote:

I think your ideas for some leagues coming up and an eventual merger are good, my best advice is let those slowly come together. Little things can happen each year as you build towards a big event like a merger and I am sure it will feel organic. And you can of course look at how other similar leagues have also changed. I'm sure expansion is a lot more rapid in the 80s-90s and onto the 20

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