[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

I decided to have some fun with a few statistics over the history of Season Long. Specifically, the drop/boot rate.

2008: 65 participants, no boots, one or two drops (and a late add). Active participants: maybe about 20-30. Hence the miss 5 and out rules.

2009: 42 participants, 2 withdrawals, 12 boots. 33% of the league didn't finish. Of the 12 boots, fully 75% disappeared after the first 5 drafts.

2010: 31 participants, 3 withdrawals, 6 boots. 29% non-finishers. Of the boots, 67% or 2/3 were gone after the first 5 drafts.

So, we've been losing fewer people, but playing with fewer.

Of particular note is that it looks like the vast majority of boots happen after the first 5 drafts. Withdrawals (voluntary boots) typically happen after 1-2 drafts.

Just some food for thought.

Usually it's people who have never played before and are the kind of people who don't read the manual and thus don't read my first post saying if you're not going to participate don't join and they hit reply and are never heard from again. I could care less if I have only ten dedicated players over a hundred who show up every once in a while. I want people who want to participate because they enjoy playing the game and getting some sort of challange from playing it not people who are either looking for something to pass the time like some Facebook app that they can play with every once in a while or something to fit in with the veterans.