There are numerous web sites for different Strat leagues with leagues looking for new managers. Has anyone posted to any of them? I have looked at a handful today and have not seen any ARBA postings. If not, I suggest we create an advertisement for our need to fill an existing team with a small description of the league. Years of existence, number of teams, salaried keeper league with minor leaguers, etc. This could then be copied to as many boards as we can find. We can discuss how we want them to contact us. Either thru the website or via email. I don't want to post someone' email or phone number as the contact without their consent.
Since I have been called out for being one of the members that wants to reduce two team managers and not finding a replacement for Don's second team, I will now make the effort to find one. I will say that not finding a manager in less than two weeks (really short notice) is no reason to continue to propogate two team managers. By the way, we have not lobbied for forcing two team managers to go away, only to not replace them when they leave. I will be proposing a rule this offseason to not allow new two team managers. We'll see how the vote comes out. I am sure there will be plenty of discussion, pro and con, when the time comes.
I would think that anyone who wanted to recruit a new owner could use their own contact info and make up their own advert in the blink of an eye. It's most likely that it would be well after the IOD before this league agreed on a proper advertisement to post.
I will point out that in my other league we have used these web sites in the past and had generally back luck with the owners we got that way. That league has 24 teams and *three* guys punted part way through the inaugural draft- and I could be wrong but I believe they were all people who were recruited off message boards by the founders of the league.
Since then that league has had several owners who played halfheartedly for a while and then disappeared, sometimes in the middle of a season.
When you go with someone who at least one existing owner knows personally, you have much better prospects of getting someone who will be good for the league.
I'm now commissioner of that league and I decided using those message boards would be a last resort. I felt very fortunate to find two new owners this past offseason (including our own Tom S!) who I know and am pretty confident will be good owners.
Another league I am in has used Baseball Digest Weekly to advertise for new owners. In the last week we have found 3. But as Kevin says who knows how good they will be as nobody knows them.
Although some view 2 team owners as a necessary evil; is it not better to have someone doing a good job with two teams year after year versus losing 3-5 owners every year who do a half ass job? We have had this debate in the other league as well. In that league volunteer foster owners were recruited to run teams until permanent owners could be found. We'll see how that works out I guess. I think ARBA's stability is owned to the fact that we have had two team owners who have capably run their respective teams without obvious bias for one. In otherwords if it aint broke don't fix it, you may make it worse. Two team owners is not where I would make changes to ARBA. Other ideas I have had have been voted down, so I no longer suggest them and joined another league instead. Two team owners is not as big a problem as some would lead to believe.
