Talk:Arena Football League (2024)

Related competitions?

I'm seeing a possible dispute over this parameter in the infobox, so I'd like to ask what the intended usage for this parameter is. With @JMyrleFuller's edit here, it perfectly covers that some teams came from Champions Indoor Football and National Arena League, while @VyveGuy1's edit here entirely removes the CIF connection in favor of the more active Indoor Football League, which has teams with no connection to the current iteration of the league. I'd like to see how best to use this parameter, since it's obvious that how I initially introduced it to this article won't work here. Jalen Folf (Bark[s]) 03:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I swapped it back. As you note, the CIF was the predecessor league for some of the current teams. It should definitely be listed. Meanwhile the IFL has zero actual connections, and is just contemporaneous. That's not enough, unless we were to list every single current indoor football league. Id rather remove the parameter outright than do that. oknazevad (talk) 08:36, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Agree with oknazevad. There should be some direct relation between leagues to be counted. So CIF, its merger partner, definitely fits. NAL counts because the AFL took three of its founding teams from that league. You could, in theory, put the original AFL there because it is their intellectual property being licensed (I didn't). But other than both playing 8- man football on a 50- yard field in the spring, there isn't a relation between the AFL and IFL or any other league. (There is between the old AFL and IFL given how many old AFL/af2 teams are there but by that point you're entering Kevin Bacon territory with how many tenuous connections you have to use.) J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 12:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)