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Originally Posted by Kushiel
Can you not see the difference in training a player to play another position to make your team better in the future and losing on purpose? One is for improvement while the other is, "Oh poor me. I screwed up building my team and everybody does not get a trophy. Let me lose on purpose so I can go back down a notch or two and then put my starters back in."
When you tank, losing on purpose, you adversely effect the entire OOTP community.
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If you look at the single season effect, which is what I am talking about, it's the same. You are intentionally making your team worse in the short term, which affects the results the same as if you played a much lower rated player (OOTP has always been brutal to players learning a new position, to the point where you're often losing 2-3 wins on defense). Unless you checked the box to stay with the same teams, you'll be in a different league with different teams next season. Effectively, for competitive reasons, only the single season results should matter to teams in your league.
For a single season it's basically the same as playing an iron in a starting position - they'll likely be at or below replacement level for your team.
I'm certainly not advocating tanking with all irons (as I said earlier) but there's no denying that you're weakening your team in-season with training a new position. That's why I'd like to see it removed. There's a reason you don't see similar modes in other games allowing this. The OOTP staff has blessed training as okay so clearly you can do that. However, I'm hoping they revisit allowing training in 20.