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Wagner wrote:
Today I contacted 8 managers from 6 different countries to see if they'd be interested in HGL-PL and therefore of course HGL participation. Of course not all possible managers were contacted, but that's already a big bunch of managers. [..]
MrJ wrote:
I am surprised by this move, Wagner. You have contacted 8 more teams who, if interested, would come in cold, have to try and catch up quickly on what the HGL is, and who haven't had to sit and wait patiently as the 2 current teams have.
I am assuming that you are worried about the size of the rosters of these 2 teams and want stronger teams? I think this is the likely reason given that you have made it clear that you don't want too many teams in the HGL.
I am not trying to call you out, Wagner, but your actions don't match your stated beliefs on the size of the HGL. It seems unfair to bring in 8 more possible teams just to make the HGL-PL more competitive knowing that 9 of them won't be playing for at least another season.
I'm just trying to understand your thinking. And yes, I am motivated to make these comments given that a fellow Aussie team has done everything right, waited patiently, only to now have an additional barrier placed in front of their possible entry into the HGL.
Well, what on earth can I say - we seem to find opposite views on things, whatever we end up doing (or not doing) at any given time, it seems. Of course I understand what you meant, but I had to mention this, as that has been the bigger picture recently (in our communication).
As for trying to get more expensice teams to participate, actually the very opposite, I did
not even contact the most expensive teams in this case,
actually in purpose, as I did thought it from that perspective that you just mentioned. If my memory doesn't serve me wrong, the most expensive team was around 300K (top8) and there were only 1 of those more expensive teams, and practically all others were more or less at 100-200K range - just around where your Australian HG-competitors' team stands currently.
So no, I am not worried at all about the strengths of rosters of these 2 current HGL-PL participants.
I just also wanted to see if this awakens any more interest from HG teams, as I have received
zero replies to my Homegrown teams II-thread posts. I'm totally fine if it doesn't.
As you can see, we have only had 1 Season so far, from where none of the managers have left by their own or forced decision, so it also seems there in average are places on offer in HGL (while it's not guaranteed).
My contact included some basic information, and participating to HGL-PL requires very little information itself - of course it's good point that there's some reading to do if one wants to decide if they want to participate to HGL, but that will simultaneously eliminate those who are not even willing to do that amount of work (or perhaps want to do it later), which effectively again lessens the amount of participants (to serious ones).
Plus I would be surprised, if even 5-6 of them would reply to me, let alone participate - even 2 more willing participants out of 8 would be more than I'd be expecting. I've done this throughout the Seasons some extent, and the "scoring rate" in terms of finding teams that are truly interested in participating is not as high as one could initially (overly positively) expect.
See, it's a balancing act. When I do this, somebody says it's not fair because xx. Another one says/thinks, "great, he's doing work to grow the community somehow". Everybody won't ever be happy at the same time, even if that's the goal to some extent. Now you're not welcoming getting more HG action..
As far as repeating word 'unfair' in different posts goes, I have personally intentionally avoided it in your case recently. But of course I read and consider all opinions, as said..