Personally, I don't think the voting aspect of it is all that important. I think most would agree that the real fun – for the managers – is the drafting. The matches are a bit of a chore more often than not, and if your main interest in the thing is to win, you're better off doing something else in the first place.
Then there's what appeals to both managers and neutrals: Talking about great and/or interesting football players. That's the core of it, surely. My main gripe with the match threads is that they tend to be repetitive – and they rather frequently turn into various shades of handbags. The latter really isn't all that entertaining or interesting, in my opinion.
The match part of the drafts could do with a reform or two. Something radically new, perhaps, to shake things up a bit. We're presently back to precisely where we were months ago. And everyone seems to agree that the match stage is practically an anticlimax compared to the initial stage. So, in short, I don't think we have anything to lose by experimenting more radically with this.
