Having a simple schedule that doesn’t have to deal with multiple divisions getting in the right games will just make life easier. You’re going to have an attrition of players as the season goes on. Even if you have like 20 players, go with a single division. So, my big advice here is to run a single division of coaches for your first few seasons. However, it all worked out and the season went well. There were still a few coaches with some time commitment problems. The idea being if I had some bad apples, then I had a large enough schedule to compensate and coaches would still get in some games. It just didn’t work.įor my 4th season I went to a single division. Now, I had a division where only one game was played and another where two games were played. The problem I ran into was I had two divisions with only 1-2 active players. The first three seasons I did this, two divisions with 4 players each.
If you read Death Zone: Season 1 for Blood Bowl, then you’ll have read how it’s recommended you setup various divisions for the league – think professional sports. Here I’ll cover structuring the league and getting those games setup. Setting up a Schedule for the Blood Bowl Season So, all of that is to say that having a dedicated core group of coaches for a league is an absolute must.
You may find that simply laying it all out for them will turn them off of the idea and make life easier on you. Tell them the time commitment they need to make, the number of games they need to play, the paperwork that goes with playing in a league, etc. Letting in a few questionable players is OK as long as you have a solid core of players alreadyįor those who seem questionable, just be clear with them on what’s required of them. Meaning, if someone seems interested, but you feel they may not be the most dedicated player, then it’s hard to turn them down, and you don’t have to. Of course, the hard part is taking in only committed players. If the people aren’t going to give the level of commitment that’s required for a league then it’s going to be less than ideal, if not a complete failure. It does not matter if you’ve run leagues for 20 years or 6 months. The problem wasn’t how I was running the league it was simply that I had the wrong people in the league. The 3rd season wasn’t much of an improvement either. Ultimately only a few players played any games at all and quite a few just dropped out for various reasons. Needless to say the season was not a huge success, though we did run through it and learned from it. The problem I ran into was having one player drop entirely, two players played maybe half their games, and another player just dropped out after his first game after being soundly defeated. This seemed a good number to get off the ground with. The 1st season of Blood Bowl I ran had a total of 8 players. However, it’s very difficult to find players who will actually stick through the season from start to finish.
It’s not hard to find people who say they’re willing to play in a Blood Bowl league. Committed players? That is often a problem. This is the absolute most critical element to running a successful Blood Bowl league. If you stumbled in here looking for a Blood Bowl guide, then I have that as well.
This article is about how to run a Blood Bowl league. Let’s start with the most fundamental element. I’ll try to break this down into digestible segments.