Also I am worried the deadline has been hurried a bit. Not sure all clans have been invited or invited early enough for example. The pool of available players need to be big to be interesting for managers, even though that would make a lot of disappointed people, but hence the minr league (or an extended league with more than 6 teams).
We've given it a week. I understand that a lot of players don't read the forums frequently. But every effort has been made to spread awareness via clan leaders etc. The pool is quite big at the moment with managers having a lot to choose from. I'm willing to keep the sign ups open, but the new players can only play for group B at this point as I want to move ahead with the auction for Group A.
Can we explain more the role of manager as it sounds like they buy players as the beginning of the season and trade at the end of it and nothing more apart from interacting with their team (making sure noones misses), then maybe choosing the team for each game. Am I missing something ?
Nope that's about it. A manager can do anything they like, to make sure a club's players get along. They can coach their own players(or get someone to coach) to improve general skill level in their club. I'm leaving this up to the individual managers.
Who are the other organizers (if any) of this brilliant idea ?
Master Jz and me have been working on the format. I also have a few folks who've helped with estimating base prices for players(won't reveal who). We also have a score-keeper(will be revealed later).
Have clans been invited ?
This is not a clan-based activity. But I have asked a lot of people to spread the word. Especially clan leaders.
What were the criteria to choose the managers ?
Managers were asked to answer a set of questions aimed at testing their knowledge of this league. They were also asked to estimate player buckets and build a few sample teams.
Couldn't a draft system (NBA like) be added for the off season ? Giving weakest teams priority on top players newly available for next season ?
We're looking into this for season 2.