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With wind standing down, what is the current status? We might need to have new recruits. I am proposing some stuff. We can use discord for face cam purposes if players are interested. Running only a few leagues at a time. NSPBulletCL, NSPBlog, NSPVariants, NSPPuzzleBattle went down. We can have a Daily, Rapid, Blitz, Blog, and one more with a swapping they one by one. Daily will not disturb anyone. Rapid and blitz and people see interested. Many people wants to write blog and reviews. We can have reports that way along with a league. One extra league will make people interested instead 20-30 leagues. One integrated club without deleting the old ones to save the data.

There is no major leader during this season otherwise, I would done it after taking permission. Some players offer times just in a very small window like 1 hour schedule and other offer 17 hours, in the current rule it will lead to forfeit draw. 17 hours is lot of time. In this scenario, 17 hours player should get 1ff. My suggestions: If a player offer 12 hours on three days... Match still not arranged... Player provided the 12 hours should win. Other criteria is also important but I don't got a good one for them.

It should have a criteria. United Players Of Chess.com was a disaster this year and wasn't containing returning players more than one in the main lineup. I believe it should atleast be 2 or 3. I prefer 2 as there is average rating advantage for 3.

Divisions this year were a great idea to spark rivalry and make each game count, but I think their implementation could be tweaked. The first problem with the divisions was the unfairness and uncertainty in the seedings. We have seen many underdog teams who were seeded low sweep through their respective divisions. This causes a big problem within the division. The second problem is the lack of motivation towards the end of the season. We see many teams who have clinched a playoff birth by week 3 and won the division by week 4. Once a team has won their division the remaining games are somewhat dull. Lastly there is not a big enough reward for doing really well in the playoffs. Wether you went 6-0 or qualified at 3-3 you still have the same schedule. Although the tiebreak during the first round is great the odds you will have to use it are slim. My solution to solving both of these problems is to first switch the order of the schedule. Play your out of division matches first and you division matches last. The out of division match pairings would be based off of admin power ranking like this year. The twist is the divisions would be formed after week 3. Ideally a division would include a 3-0, 2-1,1-2, and 0-3 team. With the help of division point tiebreaks every match would feel crucial towards the end of the year. To make the playoffs more exciting and reward great regular season performances we could adopt the NFL's structure of the playoffs. The top 4 teams get a first round bye, the other 4 division winners are automatically in the playoffs, and the next best 4 teams (by leaderboard) are in. Teams are seeded by admins based off of: record, schedule strength, and quality wins (kind of like college football playoffs.) The top 4 teams get tiebreak odds against the wildcard round winners. Let me know if you like this idea. Our current system really isn't that bad, but I think this could lead more balanced schedules and pressure towards the end of the season.

Why are the pairings for rounds 4-6 based off what the admins think will happen in rounds 1-3? Shouldn't the pairings for rounds 4-6 depend on what actually happens in rounds 1-3?

Instead of having top seed wins, why don't we we take out all of the forfeits (If it does happen) and then count it. So let's say 1 forfeit win for Seed 1 and none for S16. Then it would become 1.5-2.5 and S16 win. If no forfeits appear then higher overall ELO moves on.

There should be a different cap for women as a WGM rating cap will be 2400 and she can turn into IM then rating cap will be 2300.

Kick CG out of the SAs if your name is Chessguy1012 then don’t quote this. If you aren’t CG, you can quote this but don’t post on this(btw this is just a joke)

In NSPCL after every week you should post a highlight of that week in your channel just like PRO CHESS LEAGUE does.It will be good.In that you analyze the best games of every team other than a repot

I suggest that, just like PCL, we divide the teams in divisions.

I think the tiebreak system for the top 16 standoffs are unfair. I haven't known of this until just a few hours ago. I think it should be played off via blitz games, bullet if necessary, between team captains

I recommend that there must be awards like best player of the league, move of the season, game of the season, etc.

This will make this group more active, so that more suggestions can be made.

instead of all people in a team playing the same color, I think it would be better if b1/3/5 played the same color and b2/4 played the same color. This would reduce the advantage the team as white would have if two roughly equal teams in strength play