With MLB enacting new pace of play rules for 2015, I think we should consider doing the same for EFL. Please consider the following, and follow up with your additional suggestions or comments.
- The official EFL website shall publish up-to-date, accurate statistics on EFL team performance each day. Programming “bugs” will no longer be tolerated. Allowance (up to a point) shall be made for the failure of the BP stat service, keeping in mind that other sources DO exist.
- The commissioner (or his designated alternate) shall produce insightful, witty and occasionally scathing commentary, posted to the official EFL web site, before noon each day following the completion of regularly-scheduled MLB games the night before. Allowance (up to a point) shall be made for those rare occasions when the commissioner’s personal life and income-generating work must take precedence.
- During a draft, team owners shall respond within 30 seconds of the beginning of their turn to either make a bid or pass. No more of this hemming and hawing. Owners connecting from remote locations shall be given allowance (up to a point) for interruptions from grandchildren and pets. Failure of the Internet will NOT be tolerated.
- Following a monthly free agent draft, team owners must establish new allocations within 24 hours. Allowance (up to a point) will be made for the failure of the official EFL web site to work properly.
I dunno, Dave. Posts by noon every day? Just so the teeming masses of EFL ownership don’t get too antsy?
I have been studying other fantasy entities, and I’ve learned some things. For example, Phil posts the chapters of his fantastic novel (http://storymeaning.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html) any old time he feels like it, on Thursday, and never just after midnight, even though I’m still up then and he has the chapters written weeks or even months ahead of time. Why should the EFL commissioner have to meet such a strict deadline if Phil doesn’t?
Let’s amend the proposal to make it fairer, like this:
“For the Peshastin Pears only, the Commissioner has the option of updating once a week, on Thursday, at any hour of his choosing, with any data the Commissioner has had in his possession from any time over the previous three months. If this means the Pears have to wait three years to see how their season comes out, too bad.”