Posted by Benis on 6/22/2017 11:04:00 AM (view original):
"what are you doing to help them understand that they have access to the same recruits you are getting? "
You mean before they quit playing the game for good after trying it out for 1 season?
If the game is designed in a way that it's the responsibility of the current users to ensure that new users understand how to play then it's a poorly designed game.
It isn't anyone's "responsibility" to teach new users how to play, and that isn't the point. They have access to the same players you're getting. It doesn't mean they need to, or even should recruit primarily from the D1 pool. It's a way to play, but it isn't the only way, and not necessarily the best, unless you're mostly concerned about keeping up with OVR (which is definitely not the best way to play).
But if you feel bad about beating a new player by 50 points instead of 40 - I'm not suggesting you should, but if you do - there are certainly steps you can take to assuage your conscience.
What matters is whether or not there are structural barriers to them getting recruits that you're getting. There currently are no such barriers. There used to be such barriers. And placing caps on divisions, reducing the pool available to them by 2/3 and forcing them to compete with those big, bad scary dynasties (with existing huge prestige advantages) for the recruits at the top of the capped pool, that would functionally re-institute those barriers.