Chosen MVP: pros and cons, please.

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Chosen MVP: pros and cons, please.

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We've used chosen MVP in the WBBL (14-16 game seasons, 14 coaches) for 4+ seasons and I think it's great. We've had zero complaints about it - and when I stripped back all the house rules a year or so ago, it was the only one that remained.

I believe the Christchurch and Auckland leagues down here have also adopted it. I suspect it's one of those things that sounds scary only until you actually try it - in my (fairly limited) experience it benefits most teams pretty evenly. From a fluff perspective, I appreciate it's illogical; but so, for me, is random MVP.

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In a mini-league I played, we got 3 candidates for MVP - 1 candidate was randomly chosen, 1 nominated by the team coach, and the other nominated by the opposing coach. We then rolled a D3 to decide who got it.

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I had a league where coaches selected their own MVPs. Your opponent was allowed to call "bull" if you weren't choosing one who contributed to the match. Nobody ever had to. Much of the time the MVP was clear!

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I think in a fixed length league format where all teams play x games this would be fine and a good way to help specific player's skill up.

If a league has an open format it may lead to a large imbalance in terms of TV. The teams which play a lot more than others will already have more skilled players than those who play infrequently. Chosing the MVP will probably make the disparity even greater.

Stating this as long as all coaches within the league follow the same rules it's all good. Unevenly matched TV games are why we have an inducement system.

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We play it so that no Merc, Star, Journeyman or dead player can win the MVP, other than that it is random. Allocating it would take some of the fun out of the game for me. All those games trying to hand off to a Saurus...

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