The Divisions...

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle

What if the Divisional Captains were put in charge of freezing teams. There would be an number of alotted freezes, maybe equal to the number of HOF and Original teams. Each of these HOF and Original Teams make a selection of a team, that was in their division, to become FROZEN. Then the teams would be frozen for 4 or 5 years, depending how the numbers worked, and in the end of that time they are either let go, or reUped for another 4 or 5 years of service. All the left over teams would be added to round out the division.

Good idea but I am concerned about the repercussions. Will teams have their feel like no one wants them if they are not FROZEN? There is already some animosity towards the "elite" teams (search CD if you dont believe me but it is not pretty) and this might make it worse.

The key to the Randomised Autopick draft in my first post no one knows (even the Captians, FIRST HQ etc...) who was picked and what order (but it still should even out the divisions strength among the non Captains and give the Captains some control). More teams will feel like they were picked than actually were. Since there are representatives from most regions in each Division teams, even lesser-known-nationally teams can believe they were noticed and picked. If you are often in the same division, then you believe your division really thinks highly of your team. If you bounce around divisions, then you believe the division captains are competing over your team. Overall, it really doesn't matter whether you were picked or not but it is nice to think you were

I want Division Captain role to be more about the pageantry than the power (figureheads ). Organise the HOF booths by division and have some space for the other Division Captains, this is your division HQ to display what makes your division great. Make college football style traveling trophies using the themes of your divisions for match-ups on Einstein. For example when Curie beat Archimedes on Einstein last year, wouldn't it have been better if afterwards the Archi captains presented Curie captains with The Radioactive Archimedes' Screw trophy (for the other match-up I am thinking about the Apple Telescope but it could be better). Right now few people even remember which divisions meet in Einstein Semis. If we had these trophies, Archi division would be thinking "We gotta get the Screw back from Curie!". Captains would also lead planning of social events for their divisions (this could turn into a mini competition of its own).