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Originally Posted by Zeke
This makes much more sense to me as it's explained out, and if this is the intended reasoning behind the coding, then that's good. The problem is then - For a player in my situation who is brand spanking new to this. There is no repository for information. Nothing. I did not know that the season was starting until Monday when I read someone talking about the games starting then this past weekend. Hence, my surprise when FA ended. The ONLY information I have read is the few discussions I've seen on this thread and an email I got one time explaining Free Agency by Rain Man and was given the following tid-bits in the email
I was lost, and have been lost since day one on everything. I've asked here and there on here what is going on and the have been given responses which has been nice, but there is no calendar or explanation of events that I've seen. This is just the league schedule, concerning rules I've been equally clueless (like Free Agency and trades being cut off etc). Someone here said it was announced, but I didn't see any further emails or anything on the site regarding this type of stuff.. so I was ignorant and obviously continue to be so.
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This is useful feedback.
I've added a calendar to the help files that shows current and upcoming events and the regular league schedule that we will be following by September.
This brings up another question: what is the best method of communicating to owners? Lately we've been using these threads as the primary communication vehicle, and they have seemed to work for about half of the users. We'll do better at keeping the help files up to date. We need to add a help file for free agency and probably another one for FAQ. But I know that most people don't bother to read help files. We can do email notification of major upcoming events, but some people don't want to be pestered by email. Once we go to a commercial scale we won't be able to have conversations about each step of the process on a league-by-league basis. We'll be using vbulletin as our main communication vehicle. We can use stickies, but no one reads those either. The reality is that this is a complex simulation and that people are going to have to read a little to know what is going on. We want to make the material available through the preferred vehicle, but in this multi-media communication age it seems ironically difficult to get a message to people.