Posted by gomiami1972 on 9/30/2015 12:18:00 PM (view original):
Posted by iwanturmind2 on 9/30/2015 8:57:00 AM (view original):
Posted by gomiami1972 on 9/30/2015 7:33:00 AM (view original):
How about we eliminate baseline prestige completely. Dumbest concept implemented for HD. This is not What if Sports, this is Recreate Real-life Power and Prestige Sports. I guess RRPPS did not sound as good from a marketing standpoint as did WIS.
There has to be a check and balance and I feel the baseline put that in order. In any college division NCAA, NAIA, WIS there is have and have nots. There needs to be a reason for people to move up and having Divisions and Major conferences in each makes it realistic. If everybody is the same there would not be schools getting Nike contracts lol. I like the baseline I just feel there should be some schools with higher baselines and a new Major Conference. To make it more like todays CBB.
No, there does not. The goal for WIS should be to have every DI school occupied by a paying customer. From a business standpoint, WIS should be looking to make ALL DI schools attractive enough to pay money for. Favoring 70-80 schools and completely destroying the playability of the other 250 equates to massive lost revenue. This game is not about realism. If it was, then the conference champion would be guaranteed a PIT berth among a host of other things. This is a fantasy dynasty game...fantasy...ideas that are improbable if not impossible...
Definitely agree with Miami on this one. I took over a couple of D1 mid-majors in relatively empty conferences for long periods of time just to experiment. I pulled Loyola Chicago (don't remember which world) up to a B or B+ prestige but could get no higher; had a similar experience with another D1 school as well. It was a vicious cycle... because of my limited recruiting pool, I couldn't get beyond the Sweet 16 at Loyola to raise my prestige; I couldn't expand my recruiting pool and recruit players to get beyond the Sweet 16 because of my prestige.
As a paying customer, if I wanted to compete for a national title my choices were:
1) Move to a school with a higher baseline prestige.
2) Recruit a bunch of other top human coaches to join the same conference and make it into a power.
3) Drop back down to D2 or D3.
The game is WAY more appealing if you can win a national title at any school; as Miami pointed out, it is a game-killer when the majority of D1 schools are only there to serve as steps on a ladder for coaches trying to eventually win it all.
As far as haves versus have-nots, they will still exist just based on the different HD coaching ability levels of the humans who take them over; they shouldn't be predetermined based solely on original Admin's perception of NCAA program prestige circa 2000.