Serious Feedback on JFF as Whole
- Thread starter Nastycrow
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First thing first you need to get out of running the leagues as president and appoint CD. You have done damage to IJFL and JEC basically killing them. Like I have said for years make roster size 7 not 6. That way the teams won't miss weight and you get rid of a lot of the crappy teams. Another suggestion would be to actually listen to suggestions because you make these threads and never listen to anything or anyone. Let CD fix everything you messed up. God bless!
Ps sorry not sorry if this comes off as rude
I still think the JFF has too many events. We could have a new champ every weekend which diminishes the awesomeness of winning it these days. Seems like when I first started there were fewer or more were JEC. JEC also had more people and I think that is because of using some Fight Nights and not just everything not UFC. JEC turned into purely super hardcore mma or FF fans only. Which is fine but the drop in numbers should be expected then. I know it doesn't matter but at one point I was ranked 1st in JEC (no belt) so I was really into it and like how it was ran/formatted.
Yall use to have a belt for the biggest title....there is no way to do that now because of how often it does or can change hands. I suggest having some type of league of series of events that would enable us to either get the belt like yall use to and keep it for a bit or add a title to our avatar s--- like the Idol games. The champs league is great but that won't expand anything. All that does it make current fighters want to get a belt but nothing regarding new or gen forum peeps. Same with JEC, why would anyone want to start doing that unless they either always watch the 2nd/3rd tier leagues or love the analysis part of ff so much it just appeals to them.
I agree with some about running the league and fighting. Only for your own legacy's sake. If you don't mind it tainted then by all means keep doing what you are doing. I myself don't care but of course I see what others post and you have too.
To expand beyond getting people from our own Junkie forums, which obviously has it's limits and we have all tried and done so, we need to somehow move outside of Junkie. I don't mean the league but just as far as recognition. I know yall don't have the power but imagine if there was a line on that event article that comes out showing the staff picks and shows the "readers" but also had a "Fantasy League" picks line. The only ways to expand are building recognition like adverts (which obviously we won't do), us or someone on Junkie posting s--- on social media, being added to minor main page stuff, fighters saying s---, us going to the ufc forums or fantasy and murdering them in ff, and idk...I keep getting support calls while typing this so I've had to restart my train of thought almost every sentence so idk what I've even said at this point. I mean I feel like some of yall OG's know some of the fighters or personalities on the other sites like War Jorge or someone. I myself would be trying to organize a fight between our champ or one of our HOF's vs one of them for a big event.
Just fyi, replying to my or anyone's comment with "we've tried...." or anything like that does nothing. Arguing with complaints or suggestions never works. You need to try something different to get different results. Just like marketing, "well we didn't reach them this way or get the results we wanted so let's try something else"! If I had a pc right now I would have no problem quitting FF and helping run it btw...but as soon as people even read that they will start going nuts lol, just like almost anyone else who posts on a thread regarding "Who wants the job".
Idk I need to reply to some emails so I'll just stop now. I'll have to come back and read what I said because I already forgot it all.
BowserGOAT said:
First thing first you need to get out of running the leagues as president and appoint CD. You have done damage to IJFL and JEC basically killing them. Like I have said for years make roster size 7 not 6. That way the teams won't miss weight and you get rid of a lot of the crappy teams. Another suggestion would be to actually listen to suggestions because you make these threads and never listen to anything or anyone. Let CD fix everything you messed up. God bless!
Ps sorry not sorry if this comes off as rude
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I don't come close to running the leagues by myself anymore. I think Cd Strez and I try to debate things. I consistently try to not be to over powering with my decisions which I am the first to admit I am not always great at. I would say most things we bring out our agreements between multiple people. For the first time in history I might be open to 7 person teams while I have hated it for years. Honestly have even thought about expanding the inner circle of Strez CD and I to include someone like BSV who I greatly respect.
trig said:
I flip you a lot of sh:t just out of fun but honestly the JFF is still the best fantasy fighting site on the web. If anything an automated picking format like that at Playground would make it easier for both the fighters as well as the matchmakers.
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Then it moves off Junkie. I have had discussions several times about an app but that would require a financial outlay and then I couldn't advertise here on the forums.
Thanks @Pejapolo all good feedback. What I don't understand is people hell bent on me stepping away. I am happy to take a step back some and have been trying to give others more responsibility with CD and Strez. Ultimately now it's a team that runs it with no one else waiting in the wings.
buffaloblue said:
I don't come close to running the leagues by myself anymore. I think Cd Strez and I try to debate things. I consistently try to not be to over powering with my decisions which I am the first to admit I am not always great at. I would say most things we bring out our agreements between multiple people. For the first time in history I might be open to 7 person teams while I have hated it for years. Honestly have even thought about expanding the inner circle of Strez CD and I to include someone like BSV who I greatly respect.
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I see how it is..
But really, I am here if needed but the time is not there to fully commit to something like logging or scoring every event.
As for the JFF on a whole I like the idea now that all UFC is JFF, although that was not by choice. I agree with Bowser that it might be time to move to 7 man teams, or at least have that option open to teams that want it.
Slingshot said:
Saw a lot more call outs, trash talking, and "feuds" before we went to assigned fights for the top 20 and 2+ fight win streaks. That made it more fun.
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Make people sign oppressive contrasts, where they have to show up to mandatory press conferences to hype upcoming fights... or else they lose their title shot.
Also, horrible looking custom fighter kits made by third tier athletic apparel companies.
Sapper said:
I see how it is..
But really, I am here if needed but the time is not there to fully commit to something like logging or scoring every event.
As for the JFF on a whole I like the idea now that all UFC is JFF, although that was not by choice. I agree with Bowser that it might be time to move to 7 man teams, or at least have that option open to teams that want it.
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Haha I always appreciate you man.
buffaloblue said:
Thanks @Pejapolo all good feedback. What I don't understand is people hell bent on me stepping away. I am happy to take a step back some and have been trying to give others more responsibility with CD and Strez. Ultimately now it's a team that runs it with no one else waiting in the wings.
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Yeah that seemed to pop up out of nowhere. I myself feel like they'd regret wanting that as soon as it happened. I never understood why it was brought up but I miss a lot lol. Either way keep being a badass and know we all appreciate it! I'd have to quit my job to fight and or run this... Glad you have some help in beast mode CD and Strez.
James Dumas said:
Scoring, lock number-5 for correct fighter- 3 for correct round- 2 for correct method. Also some sort of bonus points if you pick an underdog and they win. Still too many best fight odd users around here.
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Already the underdog thing. If you beat base picks you get a boost in rankings. Base picks is based off odds.
PejaPolo said:
I still think the JFF has too many events. We could have a new champ every weekend which diminishes the awesomeness of winning it these days.
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I couldnt possibly disagree with this more. I couldnt imagine only doing one JFF a month, id lose interest very fast and probably end up not submitting picks anymore. This is guys on a computer sending in picks for points, not actually fighting, the fact that there could be a new champion every weekend shouldnt even be a factor, cmon.