From Mr. O'Toole and Myself
Toolie said...
Just to clarify... Both the Bills and 49ers have been lead to the championship before Mr. Schlegel. John Schweitzer won it all with the 49ers in Super Bowl IV (over Jason Boddu's Oilers) and Boddu took the Bills to the title in Super Bowl VI (defeating Talcott's Redskins). However, both those guys developed into solid Tecmo players (indeed, HOFers).
Punks like Metzger who didn't have a drop of skill in their bodies would ride the tides of good team - bad team but always fold in the high pressure games. Basically if he ran into one of the several studs in the playoffs (me, Ciofani, Raider, Boddu, Schweitzer, Sam, Brink, etc.) he was a goner.
The worst part about Metz is that in the seasons where he had a bad team he'd get skipped about 4-5 times over the course of the season. I had always wanted to implement a rule that if you got skipped X times then you could draft no higher than the expansion round for the next season. Is this a problem for you guys?
It's all Wayne from here . . .
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I believe the reason all these guys were getting the good teams was because there were about 8 people playing at that point. Not because they were cruddy players who couldn't hack it with a 28th pick.
Will, get this man posting privileges. Also, I think he's got a great point about the skips. I don't think that should be applied to this last season, but I feel that a policy concerning skips would be awesome. My suggested policy is as follows:
If you are skipped more than 3 times, then you draft right before the expansion round.
If you are skipped more than 5 times, then you draft right before the screw job round.
If you are skipped more than 8 times (almost half the season!) you are done. No more Tecmo. You are a hassle that we'd rather not deal with. Get off our lawn, goodbye.
These terms are generous enough that I'd say that they should be almost without exception. If someone misses three times because they felt like doing other things, and the fourth time is because is mom died, well tough luck. If exceptions are going to be made, then I feel that fewer skips should be allowed.
Everyone who reads this please comment on it. We need to get a feel for where people are at on this so we can get something in place for next semester.
posted by Wayne @ Monday, December 12, 2005
3 Comments:
I'd say you shouldn't count end-of-the-season-we're-in-a-hurry skips toward that total. Which means you'd need the commishes to keep the season moving at a more consistent rate. :-)
Otherwise, I like it all--and the 8th skip is a GREAT idea.
8 people? The league quickly filled to 28. The first season was just me and Ciofani. The second had about 18 people (and we banned BUF, HOU, KC, PHI, CHI, and SF from human usage). Season three had 24 people and after that it was 28 every year. Just wanted to clear that up. By the times those guys won with those teams the league was full.
Kyle, you had to bring up Tex, didn't you...I lost to that SOB and only BECAUSE he felt like getting skipped. What a wanker.
The rule sounds hot, though I also agree with Will that perhaps there ought to be some exceptions-especially for instances towards the end of the season when games that do not matter might be skipped for the sake of making sure that games that do matter are played, and in the offchance that one might find himself having to be skipped multiple times for legitimate reasons.
I don't know if this would work practically, but perhaps an elite tecmo council of sorts could be established (not on the basis of tecmo playing talent, but on the basis of demonstrated dedication to the game) in which certain questionable skips and other like matters could be discussed and decided on a case by case basis if neccesary.
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