B-Team Awards (Part One) Are Active!

You severely underestimate how long it takes to create this. That would take significantly more than two minutes to do. To copy and paste relevant stuff into a single voter's packet takes over an hour, and that's a brain dead portion of the process.

With respect - it sounds like you might be doing all of this in a really manual way. If you'd like assistance with automating pieces of the process, such that it would eliminate the need for copy/paste, let me know. I spent 10 years playing with spreadsheets at my last job. Better yet, there are a handful of people in the community who utterly love spreadsheets and probably wouldn't mind lending a hand.

To be honest, I can't win here, because if I had done this using your method (which I did consider) I would've had complaints from the opposing side about favoring total stats over per-minute stats. I'm certainly not confident in my method. The system is flawed; it always has been and always will be.

There's really no way to please everyone, but rather than interpreting my comment as an attempt to literally cut your balls off, please consider that I was just raising an objection that I think I've supported pretty well with argument. Awards are awards, so whatever the result is, no one's going to keel over and die over it.

making me feel like you don't appreciate the hours of effort I put into making this and that I should just not bother wasting my time on these next season.

But when you play this card, I have to groan a little bit. You chose to take on this responsibility.

I understand what it's like to volunteer my time in a thankless job. I ran SOCL for six months, and I ran that thing like Hitler himself. And it required about 4-5 hours a day of my time, 7 days a week during the offseason, and 3-4 days a week during the rest of the season. That's between 15 - 35 hours per week doing a free, volunteer job for a community that almost completely took it for granted.

What I learned from that experience is that leadership is mostly about consistency. Showing up every day, doing things the same way, on time, so people can rely on it.

These awards are a week late. Even the weekly waiver bidding process was fraught with frequent lateness (the numerous apology posts can be retrieved at will) and blatant errors and oversights. Throwing out an appeal to sympathy a-la "maybe I just wont do this next season" is predicated on the assumption that the world's against you, and no one appreciates all you do, and one day they'll all be sorry. Leadership isn't about that.

All I did is propose an alternative way of approaching this, and a reasonable one at that. Change the awards, or don't change the awards, commissioner. It's up to you.

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