Minihouston, editor-in-chief
Alright Cobbfather fans, there's a new sheriff in town and in charge of WhatIfSports. I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed some back and forth with the new owner, and I'm excited for this change. Now I know what you're thinking, "yeah, now they can fix all my wish list items in an update that I want due out next month" - let's relax a little. There is still tech transitions and business related items that need to occur first. But what I can share is, he's a big fan of HBD and has been playing it for MANY years. It's great to see someone with some passion behind it and not just the ho-hum attitude the previous owner has had since before I joined back in S44 of Cobbfather history. He made me promise not to make any promises as he knows how many broken promises have been made over the years and its a bit of a sensitive subject; and I agree. But what I can tell you is, he's been working with the old dev team on the transition and will have additional team members as he looks to get WIS more than just a skeleton maintenance crew that keeps the site online (sometimes) as the previous owner had. I'm thrilled to see what they can do with a larger team. And please realize, WIS is so much more than just HBD - all the players who are focused on other games will have a similar wish list of game changes they'd like to see to their game. Not to mention certain players who will not be named, have hair brained ideas about possible tweaks besides just those general updates such as DH to the NL, rotations changes, ST and Regular Season Lineups, Health adjustments, etc. (not promising any of those - just naming a few that I often hear requested by users).
Okay, cats out of the bag - I'm the crazy one. Duh, right? I pitched an idea about a College and ML world that might eliminate some of the vacancies in HBD - where plenty of worlds are struggling to find new members and sit dormant for a long time until they merge with another dormant league. Like I said, it's a hairbrained idea that could reuse some of the current HBD coding; but likely isn't going any further then just my google document where I dumped my ideas. It was fun to think through and would be an amazing world to be a part of - of course I'm an Architect and not a game developer; so what do I know. :)
Side note, he's aware and enjoys our little blog, and while I asked him for dev level scouting - for research and blog writing of course - it was denied. (just kidding, I didn't ask).
Hopefully this means good things in store for HBD and all WIS games. Stay tuned.