Posted by Midge on 12/6/2017 3:52:00 PM (view original):
While everyone is sitting around waiting for their turn to draft and trying to decide what you can give me for Christmas, I have a question. Why do people want to have a draft with a fairly low salary cap? Why do you want to have to decide between the player you want and the player you can afford? Why not have a draft where you can just pick the best player and not have to worry about money? I'll hang up and listen.
There are really two classes of owners it seems (a third if you want to separate out all-out nincompoops). One class wants to just builds teams with all great players and see "what if" Jordan and LeBron played together (one example). The other class of owners seem to be interested in more of treating it like a challenge of their own capabilities in getting limited resources and trying to optimally leverage those resources. Both are statistical simulations but the separation really comes from whether the owner is motivated by fantasy or competition.
I have argued in the past with owners over this, as my greater interest is to maximize the difficulty and try to prove that I can better allocate resources than other people. The higher the availability of resources, the less likely I am to be able to exploit some perceived advantage, the smaller my odds of being able to engineer a win. The people on the other side of the argument presumed that all owners just wanted to build teams with the best players.
I think the disparity in aspects of the game people ***** about probably stem from which of these groups you belong to. People who want to see all the best players play together generally complain about rookies in open leagues, the sim being broken, the lack of updates, sim exploits etc. People who want to play the limited resources version of the game tend to complain more loudly about trades (because it distorts resource allocation), certain types of theme leagues, people copying their teams, accusing other owners of cheating, etc.
Anyway, that is just my two cents. I sure there are people who would claim they don't identify with any of this.