Posted by theclash603 on 3/26/2024 1:45:00 PM (view original):
I come and go from Sim League baseball, I occasionally check in to see if there's been improvements, but there never is.
Every team in open leagues look the same. These teams aren't full of fan favorites, only broken players that everyone uses. There's no attempt to fix these players that perform well above expectations, or to adjust their salaries upward for the amount of times they are used. Because of this, every league is the same. This means no excitement, why would I want to come back? 2019 Ketel Marte again? Yay!
Maybe there's a risk to lose the 50-100 most hardcore players if you adjust how broken the game is. It seems the majority of players are unimaginative and really like the broken players, so I understand there's a fine line to walk with any update. But trust me, you'll never get a flood of new blood into WIS if they can only use 2019 Ketel Marte or lose. There's no fun in that.
This is why I stopped playing open leagues in SLB. Marte and his ilk, plus the deadball era pitchers, make the open leagues a pretty tedious exercise.
Theme leagues, on the other hand, are still really fun to play. The thing I'd like to see most is a more configurable engine to facilitate theme league drafts, but my guess is there's a ton of complexity to build that and not a lot of ROI.
But really, the biggest thing the site is missing is new players. I see the same 50 or so people over and over again in SLB, and while that's really fun in some ways, it just goes to show you that there really aren't many people playing on this site.
I'd be in favor of any change that brings a lot of new players to WIS.