(05-08-2019, 12:32 AM)Beaver Wrote:But you'd be taking away a choice from myself when I recreate and others when they re/create. And for what? Because other people didn't enjoy the position?
We didn't move away from all-player OL to all-bot OL just because people didn't enjoy the position. That was a part of it, but a very small part. The main reason we moved away from it was because there weren't enough active OL and there were a ton of active DL and it wasn't uncommon for a team to get 10 sacks in a game. It was completely out of hand. We also didn't have enough actives overall as the S2 expansion was rushed and a ton of teams were starting half inactives. Then there was the problem that most offensive linemen in the league at that time had only created there because they wanted to be a position of high demand, and really didn't enjoy playing as one. We killed three birds with one stone.
Maybe your solution is fine, maybe it isn't, I don't know. But here are my issues with what you've written out:
Nothing is tested. You want to pass a significant change without test sims to show how much it changes things? That's a very hard sell.
We're about to go through expansion and there are serious concerns that there are not going to be enough actives to go around. We've returned to the same amount of weekly activity checks as we were pre-giant S15 draft class. And now we need ~40 more players to fill rosters. Encouraging more OL creates is creating supply at the position we have an unlimited supply of right now.
What is your proposed solution for the cap hit issue? Does it remain the same? Are we going to return to another proposal in three seasons because no team will pay a player OL more than $5m a season?
I get that you want to play OL and you want to be viable immediately and help your team and shit like that but at least test some stuff or have someone run tests for you. And maybe wait until after the expansion so we really have an idea of what the landscape of the league looks like. There is far too much uncertainty in the league right now and people are not going to be willing to take a leap of faith at times like this.
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