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Ben E Lou 09-17-2009 02:55 PM

WOOF: Join an FOF MP League where the cap matters, and now with automated headlines!
 
The WOOF has one opening. Raleigh is available to be taken over immediately. For quite some time now, the World Order Of Football has been near the forefront of innovation in FOF MP, and we're there once again with a couple of things. First off..

MAKING THE SALARY CAP MATTER WITHOUT A BUNCH OF HOUSE RULES
The problem with finances in FOF MP can be boiled down to one simple matter: players do not request enough money relative to the salary cap. As a result, it's too easy to keep a team together, and Free Agency therefore just becomes an exercise in signing the guys that an absentee owner let fly. Well, we've figured out a way to fix that. You don't lower the salary cap or the cap increase range. Salary demands are relative to the cap, so that accomplishes nothing. However, if you assign every team in the league a significant amount of dead cap space, it's a whole new ball game. WOOF passed a measure just this week to do this. Every team will operate at 75% of the cap, and the great part is that you don't have to remember this. One of our tech gurus has created an exclusive utility that takes care of it for us. Come join us for a robust cap management experience.

AUTOMATED HEADLINES


Each week, you'll see stuff like this, completely automated:

:

WOOF GAMEDAY: 2018 Week 3


GOTW: Fuego Dump Gamblers 34-7



Any time one of the following happens, it is posted automatically as a text headline in the forum:
  • Top 10 single-game stat performance
  • Major Upset (10-point underdog or greater...threshold easy to change if needed)
  • Major Injuries (threshold is quite a bit higher than the "injuries of note" bit...should only see big-time players getting hurt here)
  • Reaching a career milestone
In addition, headlines proclaim:
  • GOTW results with PotG
  • Marquee Matchup results with PotG
The headline text is quite robust, so it won't get redundant.



But other than this, we also can boast...So, what are ya waiting for? Join us!

SITE: WOOF HOME

FORUM: World Order Of Football Forum - Powered by vBulletin

PM me here when you create an account so I can approve it. Then post in the Prospective Owners forum if interested.


Kodos 09-17-2009 03:05 PM

Sounds like a bunch of cheap bastard owners! Won't even spend to the cap! ;)

Ben E Lou 09-17-2009 03:08 PM

Indeed!

stevew 09-17-2009 03:21 PM

Nice rule change. Definitely an improvement. Doesn't fix everything but probably as close as you can do on the user level.

Alan T 09-17-2009 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 2120119)



This is the only part of the first post that matters.

Oh, I guess the looking for a good owner to join part matters also.

headtrauma 09-17-2009 03:21 PM

Wrong forum.

Oh wait, never mind.

;)

stevew 09-17-2009 03:23 PM

Are all the other contract rules gone now?

Ben E Lou 09-17-2009 03:42 PM

Not yet, but I suspect that we'll end up dropping the last-year renegotation rule once the stair-step implementation (10%, then 25%) is complete.

stevew 09-17-2009 03:58 PM

Yeah, having a good team and being close to the cap would be interesting. The "cap out this year, cap out next year, cap out again...errrrr, shit, my cap is fucked armegeddon" would be a welcome change to the MP scene. And kind of a funny disaster waiting to see happen. :)

Ala Titans or Jags of the early part of this decade.

Ben E Lou 10-21-2009 02:33 PM

Bump. 2018 ends on Friday, and one team is open. 2019 begins the new salary cap implementation. Join us NOW!!!!

WOOF: Kaiserslautern Wolves Roster

miked 10-21-2009 03:37 PM

Claim!

RedKingGold 10-21-2009 08:47 PM

Submit!

Kodos 10-21-2009 09:20 PM

Activate!

Logan 10-21-2009 09:47 PM

Deluged forum!

Pumpy Tudors 10-22-2009 11:15 AM

can't believe people still read the garbage in the ot forum

Ben E Lou 11-08-2009 11:46 AM

Lincoln is available.

WOOF: Lincoln Continentals Roster

Head over to WOOF HOME if you're interested.

Ben E Lou 11-08-2009 11:47 AM

(We're in preseason 2019. Regular season starts on Friday.)

stevew 11-10-2009 01:19 AM

what a Zeidenfraud

Kodos 11-10-2009 08:46 AM

Ben LeGay? Nice QB name there!

Ben E Lou 11-10-2009 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kodos (Post 2164716)
Ben LeGay? Nice QB name there!

Being that I was in the later portion of Elementary SChool and then Junior High when Ben-Gay advertised on television a ton, you can only imagine how many times I heard "been gay long, Ben???? {giggle}" from various (ok...like every single guy I knew that was around my age is more like it...) peers. It never, ever, ever got old to them. :D

Ben E Lou 03-10-2010 04:41 AM

Bump.

We have two "soft" openings. (In other words, the owners are willing to keep tending to their teams, but if there are strong candidates who want in, they're willing to step aside, too.

WOOF: Palouse Hills Whirlwind 2020

WOOF: Savannah Fire Ants 2020

Ramzavail 03-10-2010 08:14 AM

The guy who is vulturing my team has done a good job with it so far.

Isacco Ubaldi

Kodos 03-10-2010 08:31 AM

Wow. Brutal division for the Fire Ants. ;)

Pumpy Tudors 03-10-2010 09:25 AM

Wow, I hadn't looked at the WOOF in a while. So I see that my Cheetahs have moved to Ann Arbor, and they've actually had one playoff appearance. Movin' on up.

Ben E Lou 03-12-2010 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 2239089)
Bump.

We have two "soft" openings. (In other words, the owners are willing to keep tending to their teams, but if there are strong candidates who want in, they're willing to step aside, too.

WOOF: Palouse Hills Whirlwind 2020

WOOF: Savannah Fire Ants 2020


Last call to get one of these. We're about to make assignments.

Ben E Lou 03-12-2010 09:22 AM

To be clear, SAV is officially available now. PAL is still a "soft" opening.

BreizhManu 03-12-2010 09:38 AM

Could have been interested, not sure i can really handle two leagues though

Icy 03-12-2010 10:05 AM

Nice to see my old original team, the Toledo Sword Masters, still alive and using my old logo, i'll follow them from now. Too bad their only winning season was my first one, it seems to be one of the worse teams in the league history.

Ben E Lou 04-03-2010 04:45 AM

Bump. We have a *very* good team open in Memphis:

WOOF: Memphis Dynasty Roster

miked 04-03-2010 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Icy (Post 2240693)
Nice to see my old original team, the Toledo Sword Masters, still alive and using my old logo, i'll follow them from now. Too bad their only winning season was my first one, it seems to be one of the worse teams in the league history.


Don't steal my thunder.

PilotMan 04-03-2010 10:38 AM

I am happy to say that Grand Junction has gone from arguably a top 3 terrible team of all time to a much more respectable top 8-9 worst. Hopefully we can crack .500 in 20 more season's or so.

Ben E Lou 09-15-2010 08:58 AM

We have a rare opening in the WOOF. First one in over five months real-time.

WOOF: Des Moines Monks 2023

Ben E Lou 09-15-2010 09:44 AM

Dola:

And the new owner gets to make the 1(1) pick.

Ben E Lou 09-15-2010 10:37 AM

Spot filled.

Logan 09-15-2010 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Logan (Post 2150126)
Deluged forum!


!

Ben E Lou 11-06-2010 01:01 PM

Bump.

We're wrapping up the 2024 season, and Camargue is going to be open for 2025.


WOOF: Camargue Flamingos Roster

Ben E Lou 11-09-2010 03:00 AM

Bump. Still available.

cartman 01-13-2011 10:24 PM

SkyDog himself has said it best:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 2120119)
For quite some time now, the World Order Of Football has been near the forefront of innovation in FOF MP, and we're there once again with a couple of things.


Quote:

First off..

MAKING THE SALARY CAP MATTER WITHOUT A BUNCH OF HOUSE RULES
The problem with finances in FOF MP can be boiled down to one simple matter: players do not request enough money relative to the salary cap. As a result, it's too easy to keep a team together, and Free Agency therefore just becomes an exercise in signing the guys that an absentee owner let fly. Well, we've figured out a way to fix that. You don't lower the salary cap or the cap increase range. Salary demands are relative to the cap, so that accomplishes nothing. However, if you assign every team in the league a significant amount of dead cap space, it's a whole new ball game. WOOF passed a measure just this week to do this. Every team will operate at 75% of the cap, and the great part is that you don't have to remember this. One of our tech gurus has created an exclusive utility that takes care of it for us. Come join us for a robust cap management experience.

We are now at the end of the 6th season with the full salary cap reduction. It has definitely increased parity in the league. Every contract that is out there is now under the new rules. In our just completed 2025 season, there were two teams at 12-4, and only five other teams with at least 10 wins. An 8-8 team made the playoffs as a wildcard. The stricter salary cap rules causes teams to have to make hard decisions each offseason. Much more realistic, IMHO.

Quote:


AUTOMATED HEADLINES


Each week, you'll see stuff like this, completely automated:

:

WOOF GAMEDAY: 2018 Week 3


GOTW: Fuego Dump Gamblers 34-7



Any time one of the following happens, it is posted automatically as a text headline in the forum:
  • Top 10 single-game stat performance
  • Major Upset (10-point underdog or greater...threshold easy to change if needed)
  • Major Injuries (threshold is quite a bit higher than the "injuries of note" bit...should only see big-time players getting hurt here)
  • Reaching a career milestone
In addition, headlines proclaim:
  • GOTW results with PotG
  • Marquee Matchup results with PotG
The headline text is quite robust, so it won't get redundant.




Yep, we do still have these bells and whistles, and they are constantly tweaked and improved. There is even now a high level scouting page, to see a team's offensive tendencies. We've also done a bit more tweaking on the injury side of things. We were seeing that stadium referendums to improve the turf quality were hardly ever passing. So a decision was made to set all turfs that were 'Poor' or 'Fair' each season to 'Average'. Teams are free to submit requests for higher levels if desired.

Quote:

But other than this, we also can boast...So, what are ya waiting for? Join us!

SITE: WOOF HOME

FORUM: World Order Of Football Forum - Powered by vBulletin

PM me here when you create an account so I can approve it. Then post in the Prospective Owners forum if interested.



Yep, we still have a strong core of active owners. Even on the last couple of sims of the season we had close to 90% export rate. But there will be at least one, maybe more, teams opening up this next offseason. The playoffs start tomorrow, so now is a good time to head over and see what the league has to offer. Hopefully you like what you see and consider signing up with one of the best FOFC experiences out there!

Ben E Lou 01-27-2011 10:45 AM

Bump. We *may* have one opening. If skolleck does not check in by tomorrow morning, Las Vegas is open.

WOOF: Las Vegas Ballas 2025

Ben E Lou 03-27-2011 04:53 AM

Bump. Two potential openings. These teams will be vacated if the owners don't check in by Tuesday morning. Both have top 10 picks in the draft. The draft class will be revealed Monday morning.

WOOF: Charlottesville Jeffersonians Roster
WOOF: Las Vegas Ballas Roster

miked 03-27-2011 10:47 AM

Man, if CHV gets an RB or CB, beware. With the crazy depth we had 2 seasons ago in the draft for RB, this could be their year to have a top 5 offense.

Ben E Lou 05-19-2011 06:41 AM

Bump. One opening. The regular season ends tomorrow, so grab this team, extend some contracts, and get ready to roll for the offseason.

http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/...r.php?teamid=7

PilotMan 05-04-2012 06:39 AM

Bump. Multiple openings available immediately. Training Camp runs tomorrow.

Stuttgart Stallions
Delaware Chupacabras
Ann Arbor Cheetahs

Post in here if you are interested.

PilotMan 05-05-2012 10:01 PM

Bump, preseason starts Monday.

PilotMan 05-08-2012 06:36 AM

Bump. Week 1 starts Friday morning.


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