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I guess my feeling has always been that a true captain, in both the real world and in the game, is a rarity and should be. Now, in my experience, absent a true captain a team can still be very successful with a few strong leaders and they effectively take the place of a captain. If you can get a true captain, even better. But my feeling is that they are about as rare as they should be.
I don't have a strong opinion about whether high loyalty should be part of the makeup of a captain. I can think of some real life examples that could support either way of looking at this, though my sense is that most of the people we think of foremost as captains did stay with one team most, if not all, of their careers.
Having said all of this, in my experience it has not been that difficult to obtain and keep a captain on my team. Do every one of my minor league clubs have captains? No. But I can always supplement with a lot of high character leader-types.
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