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Originally Posted by bailey
This thread is supposed to be about tanking. And it was interesting because the accused actually posted in his defense. Not that I agree with his defense, but it was interesting. You can't compete with a THEMED team even if you spend $150 on it is what he proved. Even a Red Sox team. I imagine a Brewers team would be lucky to avoid losing 100 games each week.
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The only thing possibly proved was that it is difficult to win with a single franchise themed team at the perfect level. That is different than saying that a themed team, or any team where the owner invested $150, can not be competitive at all.
Almost all of the debate on competitiveness, FTP vs. pay, tanking, etc., consists of issues about the perfect level, where only 25% of the universe of teams are in at any one time, anyway. With OOTP 20, that will drop to 20% with the addition of the iron level.
If the fundamental dynamics of game play work for 80-90% of the teams in the entire universe at any one time, and the only place where the game dynamics break down is when a team becomes mediocre or uncompetitive at the highest level when competing against the best of the best, not sure that is really much of a problem.