Originally posted by tpaterniti
Your opponent's builds have changed? You're not playing horshoes, as the saying goes. You are playing other people who are also changing up their builds and tactics trying to improve. You would have to build 2 teams with the exact same player builds and tactics from season to season and scrimmage them about 20 times every season then analyze the data and determine whether the differences in stats were actually statistically significant to be able to draw the conclusion that the sim is changing. I am not being disrespectful to peewee but my guess is you have built the same players with the same AI but faced many different opponents and not done any serious data gathering and analysis on the stats, but just taken your general impressions under the assumption that everyone else has remained as static in their builds and AIs as you have.
In general people get better at the game every season. Every new season people have a better understanding of what works and so if your tactics and builds stay static then you should probably expect to see your players play gradually worse and worse as time progresses. And while I never cared to play in peewee gold due to the cost, I have about a 90% winning percentage in peewee silver and it was not for lack of build quality - I just never cared to learn how to coordinate since it doesn't really translate to any other level of GLB....so you are defending those that say the sim hasn't changed in approximately 5 seasons ya?!? ...just because it wasn't announced maybe?!? ...seems like as mod in this 'discussion', you are damned if you do and damned if you don't defend either side ...I don't need to compare with teams of the exact same builds of previous seasons coz am going by the tendencies that the dots show from the sim ...coverage progression characteristics and zone coverage tendencies do not change depending on the other team, unless we are referring to missed tackles or taking a different 'line of interception'(against a faster dot), of which am not ...there are no SAs that would interfere with these types of findings at peewee level, especially early on to mid-season(which is where the difference is most noticeable) ...data gathering isn't required, I see the difference by the dots behaviors in zone coverage and the check-down progressions of man-coverage ...outside factors other than the sim would have no bearing on that!
...btw stats and rankings in silver isn't worthy of substantiating anything other than a lack of competition tbh
