Miami Effect quits the NXL

[Steve Hancock]

Would have allowing the teams to play other leagues have prevented this? That appears to be why they are leaving. And why was that done, to try to stiffle the other league or because of the TV deal requiring some kind of exculsivity?

 

[Baca Loco]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock
Would have allowing the teams to play other leagues have prevented this? That appears to be why they are leaving. And why was that done, to try to stiffle the other league or because of the TV deal requiring some kind of exculsivity?

The NXL chaps (seeing as you're English) apparently thought their restrictions would a) give the appearance of a real sport, b) separate the "cream" of the talent from the rest of PB. And it may very well be the development deal with DC productions influenced some aspects of those decisions as well as the restrictions on use of images or dispays of the NXL for commercial purposes. (And if those clauses do/did exist even they were misguided. The best way to generate interest and build "value" for your product is to disseminate it in as many places as possible.)
Just what the powers behind the NXL had in mind is harder to say but your guess they thought it would devalue the competition's product sounds about right to me. Whatever it was the results are pretty clear--a public relations black hole for a year and a half while the league treads water.

 

[Rabies]

Thank you crazzzy for explaining all that for me

I can see several reasons why the NXL has an exclusivity clause:

• to give it separation from the rest of the tournament circuit, so it could be put on a pedestal and made to look more "professional"
• to ensure that teams committed to the (pretty busy) NXL calendar -- you can't run a proper league if teams start saying "oh, we can't make such-and-such a date, we're playing NPPL that week"
• because at the outset NXL was used very much as a pawn amid the animosity between the NPPL and PSP, so the "no 7-man" clause was there partly out of spite.

If the players had been given some concrete incentives to stick with the NXL that might have lasted, but all they can offer is what might come next year, or the year after; the problem there being that the players are either "live-for-the-minute" kids, or they recognise how transient their place is in paintball, and that by the time the money does start rolling in they might be too old, or out injured, or just outplayed by the new kids coming into the game. They wanted something now to compensate for having their tournament schedule imposed on them, and nothing has been forthcoming.

 

[EZbunker]

how about this one?

A. the NXL SOLD franchises to a bunch of industry folks, in order to raise money for their big push.

B. a franchise without players is worth $0.00

C. a franchise owner in a league that can't promote games (because of lack of players) is an UNhappy franchise owner

D. Force the players to sign exclusivity deals with their respective franchises so that each franchisee is able to field a team

E. neglect or overlook the quid pro quo for the players and hope they don't notice

F. League makes money

G. Franchisees make money

H. players have nowhere to go but out if they complain about it

For a hint as to how this thing has gone and is going, check out the early history of the NFL, when injured players were dropped when they couldn't play, when there was no players' union, etc.

Considering the brain trust involved, I'm sure THEY'VE already read the history...