Looking for advice from experienced Online Dynasty Runners

[jaywilly]

Hey all,

I started a rebuild online dynasty league at launch, and things have gone well for the most part. Until now that is. We have a rule that lets people take HC offers to accept new jobs up to 1 star above their current prestige. Now at teh end of year 4 Alabama dropped to 4.5 stars, HC got fired and someone took the job. Now we have people having to contend with a top 2 program in their rebuilds and some are on 2-2.5 stars.

So my question is if you run these types of leagues, what do you do when someone makes it to the big time? Just keep going? Or make it so the small guys can catch up more easily?

[jweakland]

Just keep going. They followed the rules.

One of the things we did was offer to do a hard reset of your coach. Retire and start new at a smaller school. Offered it to the whole league and surprisingly more users took that route. You start from scratch with your coach build too. But with how coaching offers are, we were having issues when users would get to a big program they struggled to get back to a smaller school mainly due to lack of offers and half of them being coordinator jobs.


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[jaywilly]

Quote: Originally Posted by jweakland

Just keep going. They followed the rules. One of the things we did was offer to do a hard reset of your coach. Retire and start new at a smaller school. Offered it to the whole league and surprisingly more users took that route. You start from scratch with your coach build too. But with how coaching offers are, we were having issues when users would get to a big program they struggled to get back to a smaller school mainly due to lack of offers and half of them being coordinator jobs. Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

Appreciate you sharing your experience. We are most likely going to stay the course. Most programs are on track to be competive in a season or two anyway. A very vocal minority seemed to lack patience or reading comprehension, and they ended up dropping anyway. Funny how these things have a way of working themselves out.

[AbsoluteFury]

Can I join? I've been looking to join a big dynasty. What rule settings and advance frequency?

[Caveman24]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaywilly

Hey all, I started a rebuild online dynasty league at launch, and things have gone well for the most part. Until now that is. We have a rule that lets people take HC offers to accept new jobs up to 1 star above their current prestige. Now at teh end of year 4 Alabama dropped to 4.5 stars, HC got fired and someone took the job. Now we have people having to contend with a top 2 program in their rebuilds and some are on 2-2.5 stars. So my question is if you run these types of leagues, what do you do when someone makes it to the big time? Just keep going? Or make it so the small guys can catch up more easily?

We started off as lower tier teams with no restrictions on moving up besides you have to wait two seasons. Nothing you really can do honestly besides ban certain teams outright.

[bigrice25]

We started with 1 star schools.

Once we hit 5 stars you have two seasons (the first is the first season your a 5star) with that team. After 2 seasons as a 5 star school, you have to take another school.

This encourages people to take a lower star school in order to keep their team longer.

[gopherfan7815]

We made roughly 15 "blue blood" schools off limits for the entirety of our online dynasty. Think like Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, etc. Teams like that. They already have so much built in recruiting advantages with their pitch grades that it didn't really make sense for us to have them as acceptable HC offers, even if their prestige dropped low enough