Posted by teamhydro on 3/23/2024 10:26:00 PM (view original):
Posted by contrarian23 on 3/22/2024 2:49:00 PM (view original):
Count me as someone who really dislikes themes where rosters are identical or close-to-identical, whether defined explicitly by theme rules, or implicitly (for example, an unconstrained high cap league will almost result in owners using very similar rosters). The ratio of luck-to-skill skews dramatically in my opinion.
Contrarian - Would you feel differently if the shared players were 8 hitters and 7 pitchers with freedom on the other 9 players? Or, a 13 shared, 12 not-shared split? I just feel strongly that a theme that heavily weights managerial skill is warranted. Just one such theme is not too great of an ask.
If the players used were all 300+ IP Pitchers and 700 PA batters I would agree with you. However, if the shared pitchers all had 110-190 IP and the shared batters all had 300-500 PA, I think your luck-to-skill objection is put on life support.
When you then factor in; Park Selection, Lineups, Pitching Settings, Managerial Settings, Advanced Settings, Rest Settings, in addition to the handful of non-shared players we would all have, I think the variance would then be such that luck will have surrendered to skill.