No Scouts League?

[Passacaglia]

Just an idea I was tossing around, trying to gauge interest:

How about a league where the players don't have access to scout information? I.e., no current and future rating, and no green and red bars. The only info we have is the stats.

This would be hard to implement, but cool to play. I think it would boil down to the commish (or commishes) actually creating all the export files for each team -- the GMs could create the gameplans, then tell the commish how they want their depth chart to look (keeping it simple).

Signing players would be a problem. Best I can think of is that the commish would have to tell the GM how much each one of his players wants to renegotiate. Maybe to ease this, as a house rule, we could say no renegotiating until the last year of the contract? For free agents, I'd think the best way would be to ignore what the player requests -- with the market being open, the request never matters much anyway. Let GMs make their own deals.

Hiring coaches could be the same deal. Coaches shouldn't have 'ratings' -- they have past successes or failures. Do you want to hire some retread, because he might have been coaching a poor team, or take on an unknown?

The draft could get hairy -- I think here, seeing blue bars is okay. But can that be done? Can we save the draft file, and let people look at it, without them seeing the game itself?

What do you guys think? Too crazy? Too much work? Worth trying?

[Joe]

I think too much work

[Anthony]

i think it might be a lot to do since it's hard to play FOF in any way other than the vanilla version. but i do appreciate people thinking outside the box and trying to create a different experience.