Utba

[Romultiltus]

Newest Award for Season 3: Manager of the Year

Candidate List:

bigMatt - Led Bonner Springs Bald Beavers to East Divison Title and 3rd Consecutive Gold Conference Title. Lost in UTBA League Championship

Romultiltus - Led Tomato City to its 1st West Division Title. Lost in Gold Conference Finals.

bear - Bear's Unstable finished 2nd in the East Divison behind the Beavers. Scored 3rd highest Point Total league-wide but did not qualify for the playoffs.

IceTea - Led IceTeaBoxing to North Division Title. Lost in Silver Conference Finals.

Tosti - Led Cawkney Crusaders to South Division Title. Won Silver Conference Title. Won 1st UTBA League Championship for the Cawkney Crusaders.

This will be a single award for the entire UTBA. Please vote for 3 managers (1 - highest, 3 - lowest) just like the other awards. Feel free to vote for any "write-ins" if you wish.

[Romdawg88]

What no love for me in this award. If taking the West division champs and highest scoring team in the league, gutting them and transforming them into a bottom of the barrel also-ran until a small late surge to make the season look at least a bit respectable doesn't earn you the Manager of the Year award then I don't know what would.

For real, though Bear should take this without any problems what he did with his team compared to last year is amazing.

[Tommysixfingers]

Originally Posted by SAL

The UTBA will not expand next season.

We will stay with our current 20 teams and by vote, the league scoring system will remain as is.

Too bad. I will wait patiently though. It's great fun to read along also.
Kudos to the people that put in time to pull the league around.

[mh2365]

Tommy will be a good addition when we do expand again

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Tommysixfingers

Too bad. I will wait patiently though. It's great fun to read along also.
Kudos to the people that put in time to pull the league around.

Is there any chance of expanding by two if there are just two interested folks? I'd love to have Tommy in on this as well.

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Is there any chance of expanding by two if there are just two interested folks? I'd love to have Tommy in on this as well.

Tommy would be a great addition but only adding two would lead to us having uneven divisions and that would screw up the scheduling and such. Plus, no one's pulled a Catalion and gone missing so we can't drop anyone. Hopefully, SAL can find two more interested owners at a later date and we can add in these folks.

[Tommysixfingers]

I appreciate it guys...I really do. But I can wait for a couple more participants. It can be quite a job to redo the scheduling and so on.

[vistaman44]

... where are the individual tournament results so far? When I go to the individual tournament string it says they're done, but when I click on the link in Scot's signature, it takes me to a new window with the same post. What am I doing wrong?

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by vistaman44

... where are the individual tournament results so far? When I go to the individual tournament string it says they're done, but when I click on the link in Scot's signature, it takes me to a new window with the same post. What am I doing wrong?

Your in the right place, go to the individual tournament thread and scroll down the HW results are in Post 2 with the rest following them until post 9.

[bear]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

What no love for me in this award. If taking the West division champs and highest scoring team in the league, gutting them and transforming them into a bottom of the barrel also-ran until a small late surge to make the season look at least a bit respectable doesn't earn you the Manager of the Year award then I don't know what would.

For real, though Bear should take this without any problems what he did with his team compared to last year is amazing.

Thank you for the compliment.

Bear

[vistaman44]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

Your in the right place, go to the individual tournament thread and scroll down the HW results are in Post 2 with the rest following them until post 9.

(Sheepish grin ...) Didn't realize the posts were updated. Doh!

[bear]

Originally Posted by vistaman44

(Sheepish grin ...) Didn't realize the posts were updated. Doh!

Don't feel too bad, it took me a while to figure that out myself. After looking for post from SAL that mentioned updated and clicking on the link there a few times it eventually dawned om me that he was just updating the pages.

Bear

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by vistaman44

(Sheepish grin ...) Didn't realize the posts were updated. Doh!

No problems, I did the same thing a couple of times before I decided to scroll down a bit and stumbled across the results.

[SAL]

Originally Posted by bear

Don't feel too bad, it took me a while to figure that out myself. After looking for post from SAL that mentioned updated and clicking on the link there a few times it eventually dawned om me that he was just updating the pages.

Bear

Sorry about all the confusion guys on the tournament updates. I should have been more clear when I said they were updated and where to locate them. My fault...........I'll try not to lose anyone in the future although I lose myself a lot of the times.

[SAL]

Well...........I spoke to soon.

It looks like the UTBA will be expanding once again before the start of season 4.

If I get the four conformations back from the invites that I sent out, we'll be adding 4 new teams to the UTBA. Tommy has already PM'd me back.

If we add four teams, here are my thoughts on the Conference structure.

1)Add one new division to each conference. Each conference would then have three divisions.

2)Take the two worst performing teams in a conference and place them in the new division along with two expansion teams.

3)Playoffs, have the three divisional winners make it to the playoffs and the highest scoring team in a conference that didn't win a division and make them a wildcard team entry into the playoffs.

Any thoughts..........................

[Romdawg88]

So it would be the Dublin Guard, MMS, and two expansion teams in the Gold and the Roughnecks, Punching Bags, and the other expansion teams in the Silver. Wow those are going to be some crappy divisions.

[kenyan_cheena]

Originally Posted by SAL

Well...........I spoke to soon.

It looks like the UTBA will be expanding once again before the start of season 4.

If I get the four conformations back from the invites that I sent out, we'll be adding 4 new teams to the UTBA. Tommy has already PM'd me back.

If we add four teams, here are my thoughts on the Conference structure.

1)Add one new division to each conference. Each conference would then have three divisions.

2)Take the two worst performing teams in a conference and place them in the new division along with two expansion teams.

3)Playoffs, have the three divisional winners make it to the playoffs and the highest scoring team in a conference that didn't win a division and make them a wildcard team entry into the playoffs.

Any thoughts..........................

I like the idea, Scott. The smaller divisions will give everyone a better chance of making the playoffs, as will the wildcard.

As for the scheduling, to keep it to a 10 week season, it would probably have to be like this:

3 games in the division
2 games against each of the other divisions in the conference (4 total)
1 game against each of the divisions in the other conference (3 total)

However, I'm not so sure about putting the worst teams in with the expansion teams. I think that would penalise the teams who have been in the league from the start.

[Romdawg88]

For the divisions I'm think something like in the Gold taking the Bears and either Tomato City or the Muckboys and putting them in the new division with the expansion teams so that way all the divisions have some top quality teams in them.

[kenyan_cheena]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

For the divisions I'm think something like in the Gold taking the Bears and either Tomato City or the Muckboys and putting them in the new division with the expansion teams so that way all the divisions have some top quality teams in them.

I agree. Take the top three teams from each conference based on the past season's standings and place them each in different divisions. I'll try to come up with a possible format.

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by kenyan_cheena

I agree. Take the top three teams from each conference based on the past season's standings and place them each in different divisions. I'll try to come up with a possible format.

Plus, going with SAL's plan would mean out of the Gold either the Guards or the MMS would likely make the playoffs and unless one of them pulls a Bear it'll mean we'll a team that likely doesn't really belong in the playoffs and will probably get smashed. Which wouldn't be fair to those who missed out on the playoffs.

Also, should this expansion plan go through and I think it likely will I'm going to make a prediction. Tommy will pick Ingemar Johansson as one of his heavies.