[quote name='FrankySox']I'm out, I'd really like to play but I'm sick of checking this thread and not seeing picks. If people were committed enough they'd be on here already. I'm just afraid this isn't going to work, I've tried this on the 360 and it was tough. Nothing against anyone but I'm sorry. N8 you have done a superb job of organizing this, but I'll have to pass for now.
I know there is no hurry to pick teams, but that will develop into a "no hurry" to play games.
This probably should have been a 12 team league. Seriously if you aren't going to check the thread every 24 hours then why not penalize them the same way you do when you IM to verify they are still interested in the league?[/quote]
Great. Well, without getting into too much of the crap (or at least as little as I can stir up at 3:30 in the morning), this is exactly why I wanted to "go all out" with things. I had a firm belief that if I wasn't doing all the little things, not only to keep people interested...but more importantly, keep them informed, it would be too easy to fall into this rut that 99% of leagues fall into. For whatever reason, the most impossible task in the world is for people to keep up with a thread. I don't know why. Maybe they check it at bad times. Maybe stuff comes up and they forget. But it just always seems to come up in one form or another. It boils down to communication.
That's why I try to super invest myself in the leagues that I run. I have no idea why ivan hasn't checked the thread. He was in my league last year and he's a good guy. Maybe he saw all the crap go down and thought we were dead in the water. Or, maybe he hasn't checked the thread since before all that anyway. I don't know. I can tell you, I haven't PM'd him though. Not to jerk anybody around, but as part of the "allowing everybody to be grown ups" experiment, I was curious how long it would take him to check the thread. I really appreciate anybody who did send him a PM though. yukine, I know you brought it up. That's really taking initiative, and makes my job a hell of a lot easier.
Honestly, Franky, I wish you wouldn't give up on the league just yet. Rather than lose you, I'll send ivan a PM, and see if we can get him back on track with us. I seriously doubt it's anything intentional. Probably just miscommunication...which like I said, is the whole idea behind the PM notifications and all the little things to begin with. Just give it one more day man. If you guys can appreciate the method to my madness, maybe I'll do my best to get this thing kickstarted again.