[IatricSB]

Well alrighty then....

I can't remember the name of the race, but it's something like the "Race of Champions" that has been staged in the past. The race was made up of Indy, F1, and Nascar drivers who were all given identically set up Camaros to drive (or some other kind of car). The idea of the race was to have the skill of the driver be what determines the outcome, not how good their car is set up.

So using that as a background, we're considering having every single team be identical at the beginning of the league (talent turned on but ratings turned off). The owner that identifies talent the quickest will hopefully be rewarded the first season. From that starting point, it would be trades and drafting that makes or breaks the team. The teams would have the same "player" under the hood, but the names would be changed to protect the innocent (and make teams unique as far as names go).

Since ratings are off, we'd sim some history (anywhere from 2 to 20 years) to build up enough history to assist the owners in picking their lineup. After the simming of history, either we'd have to live with the random ratings changes or if possible, all players would be edited back to their original ratings.

Still some kinks to work out since having identical teams would be easy to accomplish until the history is simmed.

So, any new suggestions along the line or comments?