06-22-2022, 03:33 AMMemento Mori Wrote:

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.

educated guesswork is kind of how coaching works in real life, if it's any consolation. Every coach works off of experience in the game. What we're going into is a sim where almost no one has experience, and those that do arent translatable because of mental stats and the lack of 4th lines, and different league setup (ie, not the same game).

What this means is that experienced GMs and coaches are going to be valuable, but that knowledge isn't exclusive to any one person. It's more of a community pool of thoughts and opinions being put to the test daily. But, we have no way of knowing the best outcomes, because we havent run each season 100 times. Simming was always about discovering the optimal win percentage, and now we'll never know what that percentage is. Without knowing, i think the league is better. Guesswork is fun. Waiting to see the results of a game is what sports is all about. Have you ever tried watching a game after it was played, knowing what the score was? It's not as fun at all.

We'll get the necessary testing done over the next 5 seasons or so, but in the mean time no player will be told that their build is suboptimal and I think that's for the best.