[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Well, if you're truly away for that long you may return and find that your entire team has been eliminated and you haven't been around to replace them.

That made me laugh.

Perhaps you will be around long enough to make your next round of trades? If not, perhaps you should designate someone to replace any of your players that get eliminated, and give them some sort of loose instructions such as, "Should any of my players become inactive, consider first replacing them with players from team X (if team X is still alive), and then team Y (if...), and then team Z (etc.).

Good idea!