Could you keep both the fed forums and these running? Leave these forums as a place for general chit chat and what not, and the feds for MVP votes, and maybe some other similar stuff.
Dunno whether it would be worth doing, but just throwing out ideas

. But I really don't have a strong preference either way.
The one thing I would suggest with the forums is it may be worth setting up a few threads at the start of the season - eg since we like to keep the MVP threads clean, it may be worth having a seperate MVP discussion thread or something, and perhaps a thread for gameday discussion, as opposed to the current approach where everything seems to get shoved into one thread.