Event AMA with Admin Candidates

[Headless]

Firstly on this, at the time I retired I had yet to actually start in the position. My expectation was that I would have a fairly intense schedule, Big 4s tend to have a reputation of being quite brutal with hours. Once I started, whether through luck of ending up in a good team or an unwillingness to work extra hours that I wouldn't be paid for, I found that it wasn't as bad as I'd expected. Also, at the time I was studying as well so between work and study I wouldn't have made much of a contribution. The studying part is now over and done with. So that's accounts for the change.

Also, I would never stay on any team as a casually listed player, I think if I'm only 50% into anything I'm wasting my time, and I may as well put that time somewhere else where I can get more productivity or enjoyment.

Secondly, you probably have the impression that 'admin focusing on strategic matters' means I'm going to sit around and do nothing while PMing other people to do stuff. In terms of what I'm proposing, these are big ideas relating to complex issues which will probably have timelines spanning multiple seasons from start to finish.

• Firstly, recoding the sim from finalising the features and functionality to satisfy the committee, to the process of testing and implementing, that's probably going to require at least 2 seasons of regular feedback and consultation if that were to be successful.
• Potentially going into S34 with 13 teams, navigating the effects on the league structure and preparing a roadmap to 14 teams. That's going to require some substantial planning from a strategic point of view.
• Putting together a reserves competition, the designing and organisation that will need to go to that to make it appealing and useful to the league, that's not going to be a rush job that can be done in one offseason.

My point is, in order for the league to continue its evolution and elevate itself in terms of growth, engagement and entertainment value. To do that we need new ideas, more innovation and the admin should be a person who focuses on that versus someone who is just there to take notes on what the committee says and do weekly chores.



I'm going to anticipate your next question to be, why do you want this? My motives etc.

This might hurt my chances of winning but I don't really care whether I actually become admin or not. I don't need to, whoever it is out of Barrybran, PMBangers or kdavva I am confident that they will do a good job in the role.

What I want to see happen is conventional beliefs challenged, I think the admin role needs to evolve beyond keeping the 'trains running on time' and more emphasis on proactive, long-term thinking, innovative projects and new ideas that keep the league fresh.

The most valuable part of this process is not choosing the admin, it's presenting new ideas and getting a gauge on which ones are most appealing and what direction the players want the league to go.

If the direction that I present ends up influencing the eventual admin to adopt some of my proposals or be more adventurous in decision-making than they otherwise would have been I'd count that as a win.



MWPP, Ned_Flanders and others, I'll get to your questions a bit later.

Really good post.

 

[damicky]

I get the feeling that PMBangers wants this more than Barrybran or Kennedy Parker

 

[PMBangers]

I get the feeling that PMBangers wants this more than Barrybran or Kennedy Parker

Poor Dav

 

[Headless]

I get the feeling that PMBangers wants this more than Barrybran or Kennedy Parker

Good on him. All four should be commended.

 

[ImissFrosty]

Really good post.

Great minds think alike headless.

The other great mind in this scenario being myself

 

[damicky]

Poor Dav

If I mention him, he might gift me another ban

You must be a bit surprised to have 3 opponents after it looked like you were going to run unopposed (or against Pickitt )

What do you have to offer that the others don’t?

 

[damicky]

Good on him. All five should be commended.

I wasn’t saying that was a bad thing at all, Less

 

[Pickitt]

If I mention him, he might gift me another ban

You must be a bit surprised to have 3 opponents after it looked like you were going to run unopposed (or against Pickitt )

What do you have to offer that the others don’t?

oK

 

[Muddiemoose]

I would like to know the candidates thoughts on what the plural for moose should be?

 

[PMBangers]

If I mention him, he might gift me another ban

You must be a bit surprised to have 3 opponents after it looked like you were going to run unopposed (or against Pickitt )

What do you have to offer that the others don’t?

I have a pretty clear platform and ideas, and I actually want the role.
To be honest, reading the others EOIs has come across largely as "I want it to be interesting" rather than wanting the role, it's a fine platform but not one I'd be comfortable backing

 

[Jabba73]

I would like to know the candidates thoughts on what the plural for moose should be?

Meese, pretty sure

 

[Jabba73]

Jabba73 please take note of a clear, concise and well thought out plan for leadership and come back to us in 3 seasons time if you really are genuine when you've had time to grow as a poster and contributor in this league and understand it's mechanisms better.

Except none of that was in his application.

Unfortunately I have been excluded from the process so have no platform to express my intentions in more detail.

Nice try. Not sure why you get pleasure from embarrassing me for things outside my control.

 

[PMBangers]

Fwiw I'd just publish all EOIs, the worst that can happen is some light bullying

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Firstly on this, at the time I retired I had yet to actually start in the position. My expectation was that I would have a fairly intense schedule, Big 4s tend to have a reputation of being quite brutal with hours. Once I started, whether through luck of ending up in a good team or an unwillingness to work extra hours that I wouldn't be paid for, I found that it wasn't as bad as I'd expected. Also, at the time I was studying as well so between work and study I wouldn't have made much of a contribution. The studying part is now over and done with. So that's accounts for the change.

Also, I would never stay on any team as a casually listed player, I think if I'm only 50% into anything I'm wasting my time, and I may as well put that time somewhere else where I can get more productivity or enjoyment.

Secondly, you probably have the impression that 'admin focusing on strategic matters' means I'm going to sit around and do nothing while PMing other people to do stuff. In terms of what I'm proposing, these are big ideas relating to complex issues which will probably have timelines spanning multiple seasons from start to finish.

• Firstly, recoding the sim from finalising the features and functionality to satisfy the committee, to the process of testing and implementing, that's probably going to require at least 2 seasons of regular feedback and consultation if that were to be successful.
• Potentially going into S34 with 13 teams, navigating the effects on the league structure and preparing a roadmap to 14 teams. That's going to require some substantial planning from a strategic point of view.
• Putting together a reserves competition, the designing and organisation that will need to go to that to make it appealing and useful to the league, that's not going to be a rush job that can be done in one offseason.

My point is, in order for the league to continue its evolution and elevate itself in terms of growth, engagement and entertainment value. To do that we need new ideas, more innovation and the admin should be a person who focuses on that versus someone who is just there to take notes on what the committee says and do weekly chores.



I'm going to anticipate your next question to be, why do you want this? My motives etc.

This might hurt my chances of winning but I don't really care whether I actually become admin or not. I don't need to, whoever it is out of Barrybran, PMBangers or kdavva I am confident that they will do a good job in the role.

What I want to see happen is conventional beliefs challenged, I think the admin role needs to evolve beyond keeping the 'trains running on time' and more emphasis on proactive, long-term thinking, innovative projects and new ideas that keep the league fresh.

The most valuable part of this process is not choosing the admin, it's presenting new ideas and getting a gauge on which ones are most appealing and what direction the players want the league to go.

If the direction that I present ends up influencing the eventual admin to adopt some of my proposals or be more adventurous in decision-making than they otherwise would have been I'd count that as a win.



MWPP, Ned_Flanders and others, I'll get to your questions a bit later.

Thanks mate, I appreciate that and I'm glad that the work is going strong and you are back.

As for your motives, I would never ask the question. We're both former admins, we've put a lot of time in because of the love of the place. That doesn't die. I've done exactly what you're doing for the very same reasons.

As for how you spread the role, I guess I'm on the side that you don't need to be the admin to do any of those things by yourself. A sim recode seems hobbyist to me, I know it's been in the works and is ongoing anyway. The roadmap to 14 clubs, or back to 12, whatever it is, doesn't rely on an admin, I would argue it's done despite an admin. The state of the league, the roadmap at 13 teams? That has been done every time the league has expanded with a committee and an admin setting the path. We don't need a reserves league, it's again hobbyist and it seems weird bringing in an invisible admin to integrate something that nobody has asked for and really forms no more a function than a limited curiosity.

I definitely don't mean to belittle any of those things but I'm just surprised by the ticket, moreso because I think if you cut out the "substitute admin" role you'd be a glaring frontrunner, you were a famously great admin. People hated when I had RU_ as my steward, they hated when I had kdavva as my designated 2IC in the last time I ran. Maybe I'm the common denominator there.

Say, you need a pretend admin?

 

[Barrybran]

A reserves comp is a ridiculous idea FWIW

 

[Headless]

A reserves comp is a ridiculous idea FWIW

Go on.

 

[MWPP]

Yeah they've overlooked them, probably because they're ******* essays

Many of the opening pitches were essays too and yet, left more questions than answers .

 

[The Filth Wizard]

A reserves comp is a ridiculous idea FWIW

It was a fun media idea the few weeks JWS dedicated to it but it serves no purpose for an admin to be involved in. I doubt there's more than a handful of posters involuntarily missing games that are contributing and the idea we would allow an admin to dedicate his time to a secondary sim comp with no significance and one that would require a dozen players per club to be "create a Qootyer" makes me think I'm being laughed at for even talking about it for multiple sentences.

 

[Barrybran]

Go on.

It was a fun media idea the few weeks JWS dedicated to it but it serves no purpose for an admin to be involved in. I doubt there's more than a handful of posters involuntarily missing games that are contributing and the idea we would allow an admin to dedicate his time to a secondary sim comp with no significance and one that would require a dozen players per club to be "create a Qootyer" makes me think I'm being laughed at for even talking about it for multiple sentences.

 

[Loonerty]

I have a lot of questions for the candidates. Number one: how dare you?

 

[ShaunDuggan]

Many of the opening pitches were essays too and yet, left more questions than answers .

Yet if they weren't 'essays', people would be sitting here complaining about the lack of vision these prospective admins had.

 

[Headless]

I have a lot of questions for the candidates. Number one: how dare you?

Does anybody else think Loonerty is the most likely next admin?

 

[kdavva]

I have a lot of questions for the candidates. Number one: how dare you?

I'm in love with the Sweet FA. And I don't know how I'm gonna feel tomorrow or the next day or the day after that, but I do know that right here, right now, all I can think about is spending the rest of my life with it. Again, that could change.

 

[Loonerty]

Does anybody else think Loonerty is the most likely next admin?

I want to make it very clear that if I can't be admin, I'm glad that Jabba73 will be.

 

[ShaunDuggan]

I want to make it very clear that if I can't be admin, I'm glad that Jabba73 will be.

You spelled Kennedy Parker wrong loons. Silly boy.