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Originally Posted by statfreak
Right, which is why there shouldn't be a development budget at all because the Pirates are not spending more than the Yankees and have had more success.
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'Success' is relative of course, I mean their development system has translated into nineteen consecutive losing seasons so its kind of hard to say the Pirates method is better than the Yankees. If OOTP is a simulation of real world baseball it has to reflect the fact that some teams are at a competitive disadvantage because they are so cheap and/or doomed to play in a small TV market.
However if you want to play in an equalised universe to accommodate a league of expert human players who treat the game more like chess I can understand your concerns. Couldn't online leagues use a handicapping system so that if you want to play with the Pirates or Royals or A's or Marlins for example then finishing at .500 gets you more points than making the playoffs with the Yankees or Red Sox ?