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Old 09-08-2006, 05:36 PM   #8 (permalink)
DaveHorn
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Posted in your other thread, but I'll post here as well. HFTC is not an OOTP2006 league. We are OOTP5 actually.

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Originally Posted by johnd24_42
Looking for a very in-depth league I would really like to find an in-depth league where the commissioner updates the HTML on the league website after every sim as I can't use OOTP at work, but I can check out the league website.
Of course as any good commish would do.

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An updated CatoBase, again, is a huge thing for me, as I'm a huge stats fiend (I'm sure many on this board are) and this is just essential in any league.
Absoltely agree. Every year of HFTC in CATO here.
HFTC Cato

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Originally Posted by johnd24_42
I would also prefer to find a league with a very active forum. Anything less than extremely active and I probably wouldn't be interested. I can access the internet, like I said, at work, so this would be vital.
No league would hold a candle to HFTCs owners. 31 owners of which more than half are original owners. 33188 posts in HFTC of those 15608 are in the General forum alone.
HFTC Forum

Or how about activity in terms of trades? No one could match HFTC's 1155 trades among owners. We average over 70 trades per season. Every trade recorded here sortable by Year and/or Team and links to every player card.
HFTC Trades


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Originally Posted by johnd24_42
Finally, and this is one thing that not all leagues have - are incentives for article writing to improve your franchise. Some have it, but others don't. I find that when owners are given incentives, they write more articles and are generally more active in a league.
Sorry, don't have them. Silly gimmicks needed by leagues in order to attract and keep owners. Results in poor writing and poor articles that aren't worth crap. HFTC owners stay because we have the best GMs in OOTP. Our GMs write articles because they WANT to not because they are given silly incentives. Great articles like:

My fav series HFTC Inside the Numbers



And articles by one guy who is so good he should write for a living



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Originally Posted by johnd24_42
A salary cap is also something I'd strongly prefer.
Got it. Also have a well thought out revenue sharing model that has been used since HFTC's inception that taxes the teams that spends the most money and gives to teams that earn the least amount of money. Also, capped money is given to teams that are below average markets and less.

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Originally Posted by johnd24_42
I am basically looking to be in ONE OOTP league and devote my time to it. I would expect my future fellow owners to be the same, and would only want to join a league where it is a cut above the rest and where the owners treat that league as their main league and the commish holds updating the league site and doing sims as a priority.

Is a league like this out there?
HFTC is a mature league with mature owners. We've been around for almost three real time years with no resets no mulligans no commish changes. But don't take it from me take it from my GMs. Visit HFTC as ask the GMs what they think.

Here is a link that talks about our current opening in Philly.
Philly opening

Be sure to check out a lot of those stats/reports that are available to HFTC GMs. All stuff that would be available to you from work.

In addition, I recently added
Real Time Leaderboards
Real Time Milestones
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