Ted Lasso ATG League - Season 7

In case I haven't said it recently.

Thanks Terry! This is one of my favorite SOM Leagues.

And thanks to everyone else for keeping it fun.

You're welcome. It's one of my favorites, too!

When I drafted the league concept, I felt it would be reasonable to split the seasons into 7-year increments, which is what is currently written in the league rules.

What I did not pay attention to, though, was how unevenly the cards in the ATG 9 set are distributed. So I took another look at the entire cardset and boiled it down to the number of unique new players available in each season. See the results at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1705943181

As you already know, season 6 had the shallowest player pool so far. Beyond that, I found:
- Seasons 9-10-11-12 have much larger pools of unique new players than any other remaining seasons; and
- Season 16 has only 60% of the unique new players that we had for season 6

I believe there are 2 solutions to this:

PROPOSAL A
As shown on that same page, I propose that we shift the years a bit after season 8, to smooth out the draft pools

PROPOSAL B
The other option would be to not allow all of the retirees from season 15 to retire. We need 800 cards in each season, in order to start a new custom set in Strat. At a quick count, there are:
- 641 cards currently available to play in season 16 and
- 183 season 15 retirees with a value of less than $4 million

PLEASE VOTE on your preferred league modification

A - Edit the years in the remaining seasons
B - Add the season 15 retirees worth less than $4 mil to the season 16 cardset
C - No modification; just cancel season 16

1st choice A
2nd Choice B

No vote on C

But I'm good with whatever gets decided.

I vote for Option A (edit the seasons)

Option A

Option A

BTW, I really enjoy this league too

Option A

But only if we can find a way to have more players in each season than this one, even if by a little. This was real tough

Option A

But only if we can find a way to have more players in each season than this one, even if by a little. This was real tough

I'm proposing that we leave seasons 7 and 8 as is, but then smooth out the big bumps in later seasons. This would yield the number of new unique players each season as shown below:

Ssn 6 - 179
Ssn 7 - 218
Ssn 8 - 234
Ssn 9 - 249
Ssn 10 - 253
Ssn 11 - 256
Ssn 12 - 258
Ssn 13 - 249
Ssn 14 - 257
Ssn 15 - 253
Ssn 16 - 193

Option A, and yes, really enjoy this league, as challenging as it is

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