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The concept of combinators is decent, would love to see it work.
What I'd suggest is a limit of the number of combinator levels, say 26 elvels total.
So you spread your 26 levels either level 1 for every player, 5 players at level 5 and 1 at level 1 etc.
A game like this needs to try to add variance to the mix. While the meta seems to get batters with high power/eye and pitchers who combat that, I have seen other strategies also be successful (other teams, not mine, I'm not that good).
For the record, I don't bemoan those who want to pay to win, even thoguh I'm a free to play guy. if your entertainment budget is to $50 to $100 a week, and you choose to spend $50 a week on PP in OOTP, that's fine and your decision.
What the developers can do is try to get the balance right so BOTH types of player can compete against each-other - or at least the top tier of free-to-play isn't bashed out of it.
I'd love to see some stats on just how many of the 10,000+ PT teams (not players but teams) spend on PT, and how many spend more than $2,000 a year.
I would think with a relatively low player base compared to other games, a monthly access fee for ALL players, to then ALL be on the same footing could be attractive.
If we assume there's 10,000 teams, if everyone of those teams cost $10 a month, that's $1.2m revenue. Yes some players would drop off, but I reckon many who have become disenchanted with PT would come back as the playing field is leveled and the skill (and luck) aspect becomes more important.
You then adjust the PP payouts, greater rewards at higher levels - provide maybe 3 tiers of membership with different monthly inclusions, $10, $15, $20 a month.
If only 5% of the current teams are spending on PT (say 500 teams) - they'd need to spend around $2,400 a year on average per team to get to $1.2m revenue.
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