Posted by ab90 on 2/21/2017 10:44:00 AM (view original):
D1 involves less strategy. It's a dogfight at the lower levels. Just deciding what division of players to scout is a chess match.
I agree with the second part, that's more in line with my experience than most other views here, especially in D2. But I'd like to hear your reasoning on the first. What strategy do you think is missing in D1?
When people say strategy has decreased in D1, what I think they mean is there is now less value to the tedious legwork of calculating opponents' resources, pinpointing the relative value of all the actions, watching to see when the big fish got challenged for someone, etc. As I have said, I just see that as one particular, time- and effort-intensive strategy becoming less dominant. People can have recruiting "success" using other avenues now, and that puts more value on other strategic areas, like long term roster building, and game planning.