Asian 15's Expression of interest

[Jay]

Yep 14 coaches. Draft = ASAP

[Justin Bieber]

Yep 14 coaches. Draft = ASAP

Start as soon as englishs finish :)

[monstrum]

R we doing a rules discussion?

[ossie85]

Not involved in the competition, so feel free to ignore my opinion, but if you have 14 teams AND select every single player I think it makes the games too easy. That's almost 60 players per squad, with an average of 28 players per team playing every week....

[Spinking]

Fair point. Would having a capped squad size of say 40 solve this?

Means there would be a lot of players running around who are not owned by any club :-\

[monstrum]

We talked about this earlier, having capped squads, maybe the leftovers we could make free agents and hav a mid yr trade window, with an order or somthing.

We should make this league much differant i think.

Maybe a top 6 for the finals if its 14 teams

[Justin Bieber]

Yes Mr Oswald is correct. Capping has to be used or yes the squads will be way over powered.

[monstrum]

yeh capping the squads was probly the first thing we mentioned right at the start of this, so thatll happen for sure :)

[Justin Bieber]

Cw let's try and get tominator to be sat coach. You  message him  :)

[Colliwobblers]

I was thinking a capped squad and possibly a rookie list where you can elevate players if you get a long term injury?

so initial draft of a squad (say 40 as example). then a draft of remaining players (say 6 as example) which will be your rookie listed players.

as in the real game the rookie listed players can stay on your rookie list for 2 seasons, be elevated for a LTI or elevated after the season (which means you delist a senior listed player from your 40 player squad), or be delisted after the first or second season in preference for a new player you draft in the following pre-season.

The capped "senior squad" and capped "rookie squad" will mean in the following seasons draft, you must DE-LIST players you have in order to draft players into your squads.

Obviously PRIOR - to the "ROOKIE" draft all teams will have to select in advance who they are DE-LISTING, so those players go into the pool to be drafted by other players.

I would suggest that the pre-season national draft of 18 year olds must go into teams senior lists, once this draft is done this is when the TEAMS DE-LIST players from thier "senior squads".

Then we do a ROOKIE draft which is of all players that remained in the pool from the year before + DE-LISTED players + undrafted national draft 18 year olds. ( again with TEAMS needing to de-list players on thier existing 6 man ROOKIE squad in order to fit new players from this "ROOKIE" draft into thier 6 man rookie squads.

THOUGHTS? on drafts, squad sizes, list rules.... ?

[Justin Bieber]

Sounds good cw :)

[Spinking]

Reckon that's an excellent idea CW and creates a nice point of difference from the other comps.

I like 40 + 6 rookies. Just need to put down some specific rules around use of LTIs etc.

[Colliwobblers]

Reckon that's an excellent idea CW and creates a nice point of difference from the other comps.

I like 40 + 6 rookies. Just need to put down some specific rules around use of LTIs etc.

yeah like 4 sub 6 scores from a premium doesn't mean he has a broken leg and you can put him on your LTI injury list.... you have to actually go and BREAK his leg :)

i think mirroring the AFL / CLUBS LTI list is the way to go. We could do veterans also but that is too complicated I think best to keep it all as simple as possible.

Realistically a club has about 40 senior and 6 rookie listed players, from that senior squad they start 22.

So if we are going to start 15 we could have smaller senior squad but I think 40 is a fair number given the number of players we will all have that don't play EVERY game we will need a fair amount of backup week to week.

We can't change it once it is done so we don't want to end up with teams not being able to field a full squad.

there will have to also be trade period rules and windows discussed also

[monstrum]

Sounds good. Will there be a window where u can elevate a rookie without having to hav an LTI just delist someone who's not performing?

[Colliwobblers]

Sounds good. Will there be a window where u can elevate a rookie without having to hav an LTI just delist someone who's not performing?

this sounds like a good idea i like it will add it to the list of options to choose between when we start to narrow down the ideas.