A MWR Clarification/Update

by bruinsfan911 5:39 PM 0 comments

As I prepared to write this post, I realized it's been just over a real-life year since anything got published....so it makes a lot of sense that the goal of this post is to sort out exactly what this league has been through in the last three seasons (aka about a real life year.) We've seen a commish change, a decent amount of league turnover, we went public for a hot minute and then returned to private...and now we're here. While I type this we are down to our final opening prior to starting Season 68 and I wanted to get the MWR question sorted out before we fill and have to deal with budgets (and any potential MWR violations that may come up.) 

Before we get to crunching the numbers, here's a quick recap of events as best I remember: Season 66 was pajammies' last in charge as commish of a private Plumpy world. I then took over as commish when we rolled into Season 67, where we started out private and then went public to fill the last few spots before reverting back to being a private league to play out Season 67. Now, here we are in Season 68 with one spot left to fill...so I feel pretty good about our ability to stay private the whole time. 

Since we never had a full public season, I feel the easiest (and most logical) approach is to apply the MWR to all previous seasons. Given that we are looking at a four-year window, that would be S64-67 for our upcoming budgeting purposes. Let's take it bullet-by-bullet to see what issues may come up:

One Year MWR: 55 Wins

• The Helena Hellas (foodew) were in violation of this, but foodew did not return so this a moot point.

Two Year MWR: 120 Wins 

• The Salt Lake City Blue Lake (gnocc) tallied 119 wins in S66 and S67 combined...this is something that a decision will need to be made about. 

Three Year MWR: 185 Wins

• The Salt Lake City Blue Lake (gnocc) tallied 179 wins in S65-S67...this is something that a decision will need to be made about. 

Four Year MWR: 260 Wins 

• The Scranton Boll Weevils (zeustis01) talled 258 wins from S64-67...this is something that a decision will need to be made about. 
• The Salt Lake City Blue Lake (gnocc) tallied 227 wins from S64-67...this is something that a decision will need to be made about. 

Based on the data above, there are two potential courses of action we can take: 1) apply the MWR to all of the past four seasons and impose the $10M Prospect Payroll cap on zeustis and gnocc. 2) Re-Start the MWR clock from the moment we re-privatized, which would be the start of S67, and have everyone on fairly even footing going forward. 

I say fairly even footing because doing this would mean that the number of wins needed in this upcoming season would still be higher for those who won less often than others last season, thereby giving them a slightly higher hill to climb this year without directly imposing the prospect cap penalty right away. For full transparency's sake, this is the way I am leaning towards ruling at the moment. Here's a quick rundown of how many wins everyone would need this season to avoid violating the MWR: 

• Indianapolis (FW_K) = 59 Wins
• Salt Lake City (gnocc) = 59 Wins
• Scranton (zeustis) = 59 Wins
• Philadelphia (zyrion) = 57 Wins
• Everyone Else = 55 Wins 

After doing that math, I am even more inclined to make this our course of action.  I do, however, realize that I rule at the will of the people and want to be as transparent as possible in this process.