Just one bit of info that may be helpful for PL scheduling:

Both cup draws/trees are known as soon as the R32 is set. So, once results come in for the R32, the fixtures for the R16 prediction league can be put up, as the winner of A1vH4 will always play the winner of D2vE3 in the last 16 (and so on). That structure can be found in the wiki on the SESL Cup section.

Should help remove needing to wait for Mark to schedule the matches before the PL is posted. Thought I would pass along the info since it seemed to be a blocker this season.

perhaps along with any other implemented change.

Agree that it is only part of the puzzle

Mark, I have been thinking along similar lines the past couple of days. A funding tracker/progress bar/whatever would be a litle extra overhead for a lot of value, in my opinion. I don't know that it needs to happen instead of any sort of incentive, but perhaps along with any other implemented change.

I know it feels weird to do a yearly funding drive, but I think it may be necessary for the long-term health of the game. If we had a total being tracked at the start of each calendar year, as in "£x,xxx of £y,yyy" funded so far I think it would help in allowing the full suite of managers to become advocates for donations. I know some managers have monthly donations set up, so those annualized values could be the baseline starting point. Seeing that info would also help the average user know the approximate cost/needed donation amount per user.

D'oh - shouldn't have spent that extra 25k to use a second TP last match. Will now cost me 66k more to buy a worse defender