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Originally Posted by demons19
What also plays into my thinking is, if all of the teams have a computer coach, shouldn't the attributes of these coaches along with the attributes of these players decide the outcomes of the games?
Perhaps, a human could do this better but the simulation needs to be based on something. That was the point of my venting 
It feels rather random. I arguably have the best coach, the best players yet the results feel random. My last finals some journeyman stiff goalie got to game 7 of the finals. This does not happen in the NHL.
I am not asking a for utopia where my team wins each season because I have the best coach/players but I surly should be in the conversation each year. It's like the Islanders/Oilers of the 80's finishing .500 and missing the playoffs each season. Not going to happen! |
Totally, I'm not trying to dismiss your points or concerns at all! Without knowing what goes on under the hood it's hard to tell for certain what impact staff have, there has never been much written about it by players or devs and the manual has the bare bones of info about the attributes, so as far as I know it's all we can do to act upon assumption that they either have minimal impact or a negative one, until proven otherwise and I think because a lot have been in your situation where you'd hoped for more from the AI coach but not gotten it, it leads me to be unsure of their impact at all.
I'd like to hope the AI coaches build their teams a certain way and set up their tactics etc but I just don't know how the AI does it in all honesty. I've not seen terrible teams win cups and be dominant though and I've played probably 100 seasons, usually the teams are always justifiable champions in some way.