06-21-2022, 05:58 PMRagnar Wrote: All I have read in this from people complaining is:

But without test sims, the team with the best players will win!

Yeah... that's like sort of the point.

GMing is drafting and contract work. Build a good team, get rewarded.

I'd rather that than what we've had, which was teams who are in the middle of the pack on the TPE list but extra, extra sweaty with the testing winning it every season and beating teams they had no business beating.

This isn’t what I’ve seen in other leagues. When teams use suboptimal strats, some are obviously more optimal than others.

E.g. in ISFL the first season after the sim switch, the teams 1st and 3rd in TPE missed the playoffs and a team bottom-3 in TPE had the best record in the league. There’s also plenty of examples of this in the early seasons of WSBL, such as a team that went on to make a finals appearance with the same roster missing the playoffs in S1 (IMO) because of bad player builds, that they later changed.

It’s not clear to me that this actually makes roster management more important, as a lack of understanding of the sim doesn’t strengthen the relationship between TPE and team performance. It replaces sim testing with educated guesswork at best. If we imagine team wins to be a function of lots of different variables, we got rid of a predictable one people didn’t like and replaced it with a giant ‘???’ that adds or subtracts wins.

And that’s assuming no one breaks the rules, when obviously a large portion of the league will.