Would love to see the History as for United, especially now the seasons are building up.

For recruiting I would like a feature where I can hover over a teams Icon and get the number of RP they have, within the recruiting screens (or a table next to it!).  I occasionally spend some time opening team pages to get this information.  Also some comments on upcoming would open up some mind games opportunites ? 

I like the idea of a momentum stopper for the Timeout.

One idea following Bryce's video last week a "Commitment" addition  - where you can dial up a player but at the risk of injury/fitness loss? 

Happy to help - but skillset limited!

Would welcome the history, the pre-recruitment trash talking and the prediction league.

Not sure about the timeout unless there was also a downside to doing it - otherwise doesn't it just become a standing order for everyone? That said, some additional tactical options to enable more in game shenanigans would be excellent. GPPs perhaps? Or commitment as James suggests.

Also happy to help - nothing coding related though...or anything involving numbers.....that would not work out well

That timeout comment came across more negatively than I intended. I think it's a great idea but there should also be a reason not to do it. Happy to have a think about what that could be.

I like the idea of a team of the week with the teams of winning players getting an extra CP per player.

I also like a Team of the Week idea and maybe for Coach of the Year we put it to a vote?

In other ideas. What about a transfer portal like the NCAA now has at the end of the season? Like players that don't play a minimum number of sets get to leave a team through the transfer portal to find some playing time. I imagine the threshold would go up by class, like a Freshman that doesn't play 5% of sets and scale up to a junior that doesn't play at least 15% of sets would have the opportunity to leave for another school. Then teams that still haven't filled their Recruiting needs by the end of the season could use RPs to bid in the transfer portal before going to the free recruits? And then any recruits that don't get bid on stay with their current school.

I do like Bryce's idea about the transfer portal. 
 

I think I mentioned this somewhere else but what about some way of if teams get a certain number of 4 or 5 star players during recruiting during a season that they can't bid on any more until other teams have had a chance to get some.

 I understand it does also come down to saving and using recruiting points...which I definitely need to work on 😁😁

You should be able to win things in real life if you win things in the game. Like maybe a raccoon hat. Or a chameleon hat. Or a tomato hat...

I agree with Roger about timeouts. It's a good idea in theory, but to make it valuable in practice, there should be a cost. Maybe it could be a literal cost. For example, maybe if you lose the point after the timeout, you lose 1 CP. I haven't thought that through, so maybe it's a horrible idea, but I think there should be some risk, since sometimes in real life, those timeouts backfire (sometimes spectacularly).

I love all of the things that Al mentioned. Especially the Historical stats and the Team/Player of the week stuff. 

It's a huge coding pain, but I would enjoy having additional control over tactics, like where to send a set, or which way to block (cross or line). Right now, serve order is really the only tactical decision we as coaches make, other than whether to use T7 or sprinkle in our B-teams. It would be nice to be able to anticipate the other side having a star player, and do my best to avoid involving them in a play, by hitting away from them. Or to have a defensive shift where we could hide one of our lowest REC passers if certain conditions are met.

I think tactics are the biggest thing missing from the game at the moment. There's more tactical control in even MSWL...

What me and Al are thinking is to start creating a tactic for focus on setting a certain position more and to counteract that blocking a certain position more. These tactics will have different affects as it has your best attacker hit more but this player has a higher chance of getting blocked especially if the other team chooses to block that position more. However, if the opposing team chooses to block that position and if the setter sets a different position it has a better chance of it not being blocked.

We will start with that, but other ideas for the future include serving a certain player more and it more often serves it that player if the server is good. Also, there is another idea to not have a certain player pass. 

Also, for blocking line or cross, we will try to implement it in the future as well.

Thanks for the input! Banana King Mike.

The latter part of this discussion reminds me of when Al asked me whether I'd be interested in making the switch from United to TMVL. Not knowing anything at all about volleyball I watched a 'How to Play' YouTube video. This is really simple I thought - so when the algorithm offered me another video on 'Volleyball Tactics' I hubristically thought I'd watch that too and give myself a real head start 🤓. About two minutes in, my mind was blown 🤯 and I realised this is a game with real depth - none of which I understand. So while I'd welcome the introduction of new tactics, can I make a plea that they be accompanied by Al's really helpful videos 😁

The latter part of this discussion reminds me of when Al asked me whether I'd be interested in making the switch from United to TMVL. Not knowing anything at all about volleyball I watched a 'How to Play' YouTube video. This is really simple I thought - so when the algorithm offered me another video on 'Volleyball Tactics' I hubristically thought I'd watch that too and give myself a real head start 🤓. About two minutes in, my mind was blown 🤯 and I realised this is a game with real depth - none of which I understand. So while I'd welcome the introduction of new tactics, can I make a plea that they be accompanied by Al's really helpful videos 😁

I do not need more tactical choices.

I am already winging it as we all know.

It will make my already random selections even more random.....or exactly the same...it's one of those

Love the logos.

Tabs are fine and I have fat fingers myself - maybe put Recruiting in the left column.

Font for the Blog is too big - I use my phone and have to zoom in anyway so a smaller font is good.

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That timeout comment came across more negatively than I intended. I think it's a great idea but there should also be a reason not to do it. Happy to have a think about what that could be.

I'm sure I posted that last comment before Christmas.  Al - Is this your subtle way of reminding me I said I'd think about something and then went quiet?  If so, I confess I have nothing better than Jason's suggestion.

Ha!  No Roger it must have come through as a double post (not sure why, but seems to happen for others if they're on a prior tab and click refresh).

Quick note that Roger and I are making good progress on Team of the Week info.  We will hopefully have more to share soon.

Jason has a good thought on the plusses and minuses of adding something like timeouts.  My viewable take on real matches has been:

a) Sometimes the timeout freezes the server (more than you'd think) or slows down the oppositions momentum)

b) Sometimes it has no impact

c) Never calling a timeout is usually worse than calling one.  

Maybe somehow integrate it into being used like NFL timeouts where if you challenge a call (also like a timeout) and it doesn't work you still lose the point and also lose the timeout.

Anyway, we'll come back to this all at some point.

Actually, this exchange did trigger one minor suggestion based on Jason's proposals. If we go down the path of timeouts having a cost, I'd use RPs rather than CPs.  CPs seem too valuable to pay 1 for a single timeout.  Whereas 1 RP per timeout is not significant but the prospect of, say, using 100 over the course of the season should be enough to make you pick and choose when you'd use them.

I like the idea of timeouts, but I imagine it will be very hard to indicate when to use one. It'd be a highly conditional situation.