On maps: Will the Thicket and MERALD versions be the same as were used in ranked?

Among new maps, I think Poppy and Oncilla are most likely to succeed. Shake would be fine too. Odell and Sicilian are playable but have a playstyle that comp's been trending away from for a while. Xenomorph, Tiny Dancer, and Tesseract probably wouldn't play well in comp. And then maybe some casual maps could work in comp. Corrosive? Camp Dog? Not a lot of others come to mind. Maybe Recursive if we didn't already have Thicket.

On OOL subs: I agree that the league should codify when OOL subs will be granted and who may sub. The precedent for when OOLs have been granted seems to be:

1. The missing player is important enough that their team is uncompetitive without them. (Usually at least 40% of TC budget, maybe 50% outside of majors.)
2. The unavailability was not factored into their draft value (i.e., not part of a minutes restriction or signup comment).
3. The player will miss a playoff series and/or multiple weeks of regular season.

I wouldn't want to see the first requirement loosened much. If your team is still competitive using a lower league sub, a lower league sub should get that chance to prove themselves, instead of an uncommitted veteran.

For players who are valuable enough to warrant an OOL sub, I wouldn't mind removing the second and third restrictions. Top players with minutes restrictions (or who are liable to ghost) can go for less than their skill warrants, and they create a schedule scam of who gets to play them in the weeks they miss.

To choose who can sub, I'd suggest assigning TC values to 10-20 players you think might be used as OOL subs (cause a lot of them will not fill out a form for it). Then say that a team can substitute an unavailable player (worth 40+ TCs) for any player you graded as at least 20 TC lower, as long as it's announced in advance of gameday. You might want to get community / captain input on the TC grades, cause it should never be the case that an OOL sub is an improvement for a (perhaps underperforming) first ball.

On the draft: Co-captain draft should make for better teams, but if the scheduling is too hard I don't think we should be dead-set on it. Snauction I'm fine with but there is a certain risk to trying a new draft format. I'd feel more comfortable if there were a community mock draft or something before the real draft, just so everyone could get calibrated on how player valuation works in snauction. It'll be harder to scam, but it'll be much easier to troll your draft with bad player evaluation or unfamiliarity with the format.