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paulcaraccio

169 teams for sale

July 03, 2016 at 06:24AM View BBCode

With 169 teams for sale and the DynastyBot now having played more seasons than anyone but Leonard, it seems like the right time to start chronicling the demise of a once great site! Some numbers:

112 leagues
1,896 teams
169 vacancies (8.9%)

It's especially tough times in 15 GPD leagues, where roughly 1 in 6 teams is unowned (30/176).

With 100% ownership, the site would pull in about $10,670 per month*, at an average cost of $5.63 per team. 169 vacancies (if averagely priced) is a monthly loss of $950, but still, not too bad for 3-4 hours of weekly attention.

One thing that stood out while looking at prices, salary leagues are too expensive, considering there's no extra effort required from admin. A 12 GPD salary league costs 9.50, non-salary 12's are 7.00.

*Math: 4.50 monthly for Dynasty, GPD-based list prices for private leagues, with adjustments for salary/edit leagues. Minus $1 for each term league team.
paulcaraccio

July 09, 2016 at 04:44AM View BBCode

RIP Bill Lee League

111 leagues
1,880 teams
175 vacancies (9.3%)
compton10101

July 09, 2016 at 06:04AM View BBCode

then when u iz factorin' in how people get run outta leaguez becuz playaz don't da way tha "old timaz" think u should play it furtha drivez away new biznezz................COMPTON
compton10101

July 09, 2016 at 12:34PM View BBCode

COMPTON also wondaz if even those "core playaz" who ostracize otha new genaration ownaz r gettin' fed up wit no attention 2 site improvementz r givin up afta decadez in leaguez............COMPTON already haz stated dat there r sum up in here who treat dis site like itz Augusta an "membaz only" fo their own kind in certain leaguez.............between a dwindlin' base of "core" Augusta like playaz an treatment of new genaration u can see da end of dis in sight....................COMPTON
tworoosters

July 09, 2016 at 05:14PM View BBCode

I think owners who "buy & burn" ,never staying more than a few seasons, to pump up their stats while adding nothing to the culture of the site are probably a bigger problem than the implied discrimination against newcomers.

But that's just my opinion
compton10101

July 09, 2016 at 06:01PM View BBCode

Yeah an datz exactly da attitude an reazon why.....judge insteada welcome........u all fall all ova yo own kinda playa.....dis mentality da same az whitez thinkin all copz treat people da same so juss act rite an u won't git shot by em.......COMPTON
compton10101

July 09, 2016 at 06:07PM View BBCode

Memo 2 roosta...... COMPTON Iz sure y also have black friendz so dat provez ur cultural knowledge........COMPTON
mr1313

July 09, 2016 at 06:19PM View BBCode

So it's confirmed compton is a lazy ass degenerate that collects off the government and has so much time all he does is complain about the perceived establishment bringing his kind down meanwhile that very establishment is enabling him to sit home all day while others work to support him. Yeah the new generation is one hell of a generation who seem to always cry about being the victims while looking for handouts from the very people that victimize them.
compton10101

July 09, 2016 at 06:30PM View BBCode

memo to 1313........COMPTON ain't thinkin dis site iz a cova fo stormfront or whateva ethnic purifyin kinda thing u obviously inta..........2 say dat COMPTON iz lazy or gitz assistance hi litez da instatutional racism in dis country........well done adolph........................COMPTON
dirtdevil

July 09, 2016 at 07:14PM View BBCode

Originally posted by compton10101
Yeah an datz exactly da attitude an reazon why.....judge insteada welcome........u all fall all ova yo own kinda playa.....dis mentality da same az whitez thinkin all copz treat people da same so juss act rite an u won't git shot by em.......COMPTON

no. no. conflating those two things does everyone a disservice.

i'm not black and i'm not American, so i'm not about to pretend I have any real idea what it means to be a black American. there are real issues in the united states, in north America, with institutional racism. black men are killed for little or no reason in 'routine' police interactions far more than are white men. black men are involved in 'routine' police interactions far more than are white men, for no valid reason. 'driving while black' is a real thing that needs to be addressed.

look, i'm not you. I haven't been through what you (presumably) have been through. if someone has experienced constant racism all their life, then I don't blame them for expecting to find it elsewhere. how could they not? if that has been your experience in life, then I can understand why you might feel like some part of the pushback against your refusal to write in traditional English is racially motivated. but I have to tell you, that there has historically been all kinds of criticism here of large numbers of people other than you who employ the 'buy it and burn it' style of ownership. if you typed like a rich white kid from Connecticut while playing that way you'd have just as many people calling you out on it.

whether you want to acknowledge it or not, that playing style can really damage teams and leagues long term. leagues have dissolved over it. I've seen it. most of us who have been here for a while have and those who have been through it don't want to see it perpetuated. that's why you get pushback over your playing style.

now, you may want to tell me that some will use that as a convenient excuse to cover for their racism. I can't argue that's never going to be true. sometimes maybe it is. i have a hard time wanting to believe it of people I know on here, but maybe that's my own white naïveté talking. statistically, i'm sure that some of the response you get probably has to be racially motivated in nature. but I don't know which people those are and while i'm sure you obviously have more experience reading between the lines to find it than i do, painting everyone with that brush doesn't really help anything. not everyone who dislikes your playing style is a racist. not everyone who gets frustrated with how you 'speak' is a racist. if you'd stop treating everone here who disagrees with you as an enemy you might find fewer enemies.

which, just to be clear, is in no way a statement that if people would just stop protesting about racism that it would go away. that's dumb. it's important to protest about it. white privelge is a real thing. the 'black lives matter' movement is important. the 'all lives matter' response is stupid and condescending and misses the point completely. but those things are not this thing.

I don't know, maybe i'm completely missing the point you're making. maybe everytime a (presumably) white person disagrees with a (presumably) black person there's an element of racism in it whether the white person knows it or not. but I sure hope that's not true, because if it is then there's no way out of this and we're all fucked.

[Edited on 7-9-2016 by dirtdevil]
compton10101

July 10, 2016 at 01:28AM View BBCode

COMPTON agreez wit sum of yo pointz........howeva, COMPTON believez dat itz da lack of welcomin' dat iz of issue..........there are racist people here............some are not............itz juss 2 convenient for sum 2 wrap it inta "we juss don't like u burnin' down leaguez" which iz a code for sum to mean "if u'd juss act like us an play like us then u'd b accepted an that ain't a race issue COMPTON"...........separate water fountainz an bathroomz weren't eitha back in da day...........COMPTON
chance4103

July 10, 2016 at 01:51AM View BBCode

I think another thing that has hurt the SD is subscription league in general. By having subscription leagues it does encourage people to leave leagues more easily and move on to a new team, since you have only monthly commitment. Where expansion you payed for certain amount of time and locked in due to the investment owner has made.
DwightKSchrute

July 10, 2016 at 01:58AM View BBCode

Seriously...?

This discussion went where?

I miss the old days.
compton10101

July 10, 2016 at 02:05AM View BBCode

COMPTON takez it dwight iz one of da augusta typez.............COMPTON
chance4103

July 10, 2016 at 02:14AM View BBCode

Here on this site I can't tell if your black, white, Asian, gay, straight or what ever unless you tell people if you are. I could care less what race or what ever you are. All I care about is how someone treats others. If someone acts or treats someone by remarks, gestures or what ever putting someone down. Don't be surprised if someone to return same thing back to the person who said those remarks.
I try to remember when someone makes those types of statements here.Instead of making a rude remark back. I just think to myself that this person has maybe limited vocabulary and low intelligents.I feel I should not bring myself down to their level thinking by returning remarks like they want me to do.

[Edited on 7-10-2016 by chance4103]
compton10101

July 10, 2016 at 05:41AM View BBCode

Well said except COMPTON can't stand instatitiinal subtle racism ..... COMPTON hopezthwse guyz read to stuff tho ....... CONPTON
DwightKSchrute

July 10, 2016 at 01:04PM View BBCode

Originally posted by compton10101
COMPTON takez it dwight iz one of da augusta typez.............COMPTON

The fact that you think the site is suffering is dude to racism is just senseless.

People don't know who the people of other races are on the internet.
compton10101

July 10, 2016 at 01:08PM View BBCode

itz senseless 2 act like racism iz juss a visual thing...............it ain't sumthin' u juss see..............COMPTON
compton10101

July 10, 2016 at 07:56PM View BBCode

all simdynasty livez matta!!!!!!!!!!!...........COMPTON
compton10101

July 11, 2016 at 02:11AM View BBCode

COMPTON wishez othaz up in here felt da same way............COMPTON
paulcaraccio

Today's sign of the Simpocalypse

July 11, 2016 at 02:58AM View BBCode

I'm "chaperoning" in a league where an owner threw a fit and DfA'd all his star players. A overall RP (age 29), A/A- SP (28), couple B/A+ hitters, and more. He even announced it in advance on the message board, "About ready to just waive everyone".

In the good ole days, there would have been an outpouring of righteous outrage, some entertaining back-and-forths, who's gonna claim who, who's right, who's wrong, who's a jerk, does admin have to get involved, it would have been a whole hideously beautiful thing.

Instead, nobody said anything, nobody put any claims in, all those players passed through waivers and will now simply tear it up for his minor league team. Nobody even noticed.
compton10101

July 11, 2016 at 05:23AM View BBCode

memo 2 paul..............COMPTON seez da apathy az well...............sim haz becum da microcosm of the USA...........do little...............complain alot...............judge othaz even mo than u complain..............blame sim troublez on ownaz sit in judgement.................COMPTON
cdunn3

July 12, 2016 at 12:21AM View BBCode

Dynasty openings just shortly before the cutoff.

36 DynastyBot teams - 6 were talen
46 owned by people - 23 were taken.

DynastyBot is a failure in its goal of
making teams attractive to owners.
ballmark

July 12, 2016 at 02:02AM View BBCode

I don't think DynastyBot was ever designed to make a team attractive. I think it was designed to merely maintain a team and keep a league running until enough owners left that league could be contracted by merging with another.
compton10101

July 12, 2016 at 02:57AM View BBCode

COMPTON don't mind sum botz.......at least botz ain't distespectful..... COMPTON

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