05-27-2011, 02:05 PM
There's really 3 different things going on:
1) Purely based off principal, too much talent generally makes it harder for rebuilding teams to compete, allows for dynasties and waters down any parity that's inherent to the sport (IRL). We've managed to avoid this for the most part but 3 of the 4 teams in the Championship Series were repeats from just a year ago.
2) Mogul seems to take advantage of the talent caps we've set and this has been consistent for a few seasons. We say 3.9% as the limit it's giving us 6.2%. That may seem small but it amounts to about 40-50 more STAR PLAYERS than we intend or about 1.5 90+ players/team. Since talent tents to gravitate together all it really does as far as the big picture is concerned, is fortify strong teams and increase the difficulty for weaker teams. This is the opposite of real life, IMO.
3) On the league level we're seeing teams with talent have little trouble maintaining it simply because they don't have to trade away talent to maintain success. I think it's taking it's toll on league health when you consider I haven't had to make a big time acquisition for over 2 full seasons and neither has Toronto, Florida or Chicago aside from tweaking (Bogho for Roberts, two aces for teheran, upgrading carter come to mind).
If I were a rebuilding team that would be unbelievably demoralizing. It should be much more difficult to stay on top than to get there and I feel we have the opposite in FCM atm. It's becoming harder and harder to climb to the top and easier and easier to stay there. This is like a colorless/odorless gas, it will kill a league without anyone even noticing until it's too late IMO.
1) Purely based off principal, too much talent generally makes it harder for rebuilding teams to compete, allows for dynasties and waters down any parity that's inherent to the sport (IRL). We've managed to avoid this for the most part but 3 of the 4 teams in the Championship Series were repeats from just a year ago.
2) Mogul seems to take advantage of the talent caps we've set and this has been consistent for a few seasons. We say 3.9% as the limit it's giving us 6.2%. That may seem small but it amounts to about 40-50 more STAR PLAYERS than we intend or about 1.5 90+ players/team. Since talent tents to gravitate together all it really does as far as the big picture is concerned, is fortify strong teams and increase the difficulty for weaker teams. This is the opposite of real life, IMO.
3) On the league level we're seeing teams with talent have little trouble maintaining it simply because they don't have to trade away talent to maintain success. I think it's taking it's toll on league health when you consider I haven't had to make a big time acquisition for over 2 full seasons and neither has Toronto, Florida or Chicago aside from tweaking (Bogho for Roberts, two aces for teheran, upgrading carter come to mind).
If I were a rebuilding team that would be unbelievably demoralizing. It should be much more difficult to stay on top than to get there and I feel we have the opposite in FCM atm. It's becoming harder and harder to climb to the top and easier and easier to stay there. This is like a colorless/odorless gas, it will kill a league without anyone even noticing until it's too late IMO.
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