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Any idea when you'll have the SML fall schedule sent out? Why does it always ask you to solve a math problem? Are you no longer able to bold and change text type? Some people will be mad that they lost all their previous post counts, doesn't bother me though.

A couple of other things I noticed which hopefully will be updated. When a new message is posted on the message board the website doesn't update to show that and it should. How are you gonna have Maurice hitting a jumper in O'Cal's face but then not have my team listed under the champs? I also noticed that Meta World War wasn't listed but this is a good thing. I assume some of the minor details will be updated such as team records from previous season's later on.

Lastly I'm assuming you'll send out an email or something on how to update stats cause I didn't see where/how to do it on the site.

It's annoying to have to resize pictures to make these tiny little avatars.. Make them bigger..!!

Overall, I hate change, and I don't like the new website or forum, it's confusing..

Also, how does the staff stuff work for stats and writeups and whatnot..?

This sucks change it back..!!

I, not surprisingly, also resist change, but in this case I think I have good reasons. I think the new sites look slick, but I'm struggling with usability. The biggest complaint about the message boards so far is how to tell when a post is new or not. I like to mark posts as "read" as I see them, so I can track the new stuff. I don't yet see how to do that on the new boards. I consider this a critical feature to how I use the boards. Without it, much will be ignored or missed. This text editor for new posts is also very annoying. One can't arrow up or down consistently at all.

I have some comments about the new main site too. In general, I find it to be incomplete, and that REALLY bothers me. If it isn't ready, don't ship it. Meanwhile social media stuff is plastered everywhere, and I have no use for that ("Bah, humbug!" says the fogie). I can't find what used to be the "statistics" page. When I want to look at a team I don't want to see career numbers for every player, I want to see a condensed version of the team and what they're doing this year. I always liked the "statistics" page.

The "League" menu is coming up UNDER the videos. I have to perform various acrobatics to get at the league menus. Once I'm in there, it seems like other useful things are missing from the main site too. For example, how do I get to writeups/boxscores? What about player search? I'm lost.

I found a writeup link, but will historical writeups also be accessible?

Some issues:

1. I feel like there should be a floating menu option that follows along the left side as you scroll down. There's just too much blank space on the sides, even on a normal monitor. On my widescreen it looks absurd as only the middle third of the screen has content. Why not throw up the other categories (blocks, steals) to fill some space on the league pages?

2. The default message board styling (colors, font, etc.) is too washed out and makes it difficult to read.

3. I think the dropdowns up top are fine, but not the best organization. People don't browse the site based on category, they browse based on league. When I want to look at stuff on the site I'm not thinking "I wish I had a dropdown of all the league leaders" because I don't care about 90% of them. I'm wishing I had quick access to all the info for the league I'm in. 

For whatever this is worth, the message board feels a little sluggish to me. It's hard to quantify though.

When we're on a message board page, across the top is some sort of header structure about an inch or so high that extends across the entire top of browser. There's a greeting in the upper right that say (in my case) "Howdy cheese." There's also a search box in the upper right. Surrounding all of that is the word "normal" four times. When I mouseover my greeting, there more "normal"s surrounding things like "Edit My Profile" and "Log Out". On the upper left, the word "normal" appears 4 more times surrounding what appears to be 2 menus, one with (I think) a Wordpress logo, and the other saying "CAC Basketball". Mousing over those menus brings up submenu items that are surrounded by the word "normal" several more times in the same way my greeting menu is. I'm using IE9.

Website issue!!!  When you go to "Champs" section, the champs who beat your team are NOT there.  Fix that!!!