Posted by Benis on 9/22/2017 3:05:00 PM (view original):
okay, last shot and then someone else can take over.
[Cue intense and serious voiceover]
In a world where there are more players than resources, you will need to battle. A lot. You will win some dice rolls and you will lose some dice rolls. If you lose dice rolls for players (even if they're bad) you will then need to either
a) move on to some other (presumably worse) crappy player and sign them
b) just take a walk on
FB/Press basically FORCES you to sign the even worse crappy player thereby decreasing opportunities for more recruiting rolls the following season where you can get lucky and actually sign a good player.
Zone/M2M allows you take walkons (without much penalty to in season success) and just pool your resources season after season which enables you to take more risks. You also start with an inflated budget basically (money for 4 openings but only need to sign 2 spots for example).
This is NOT complicated. Everyone knows this.
Sigh. The "even worse crappy player" will not be as bad in a 250 world as he is currently.
Because every team, even the Zone/M2M teams, has diluted talent. You know why? Because there are 150 more users than there are currently.