Originally posted by Tigerbait0307
I think lowering the roster limit would be a bad idea. In my opinion it should be expanded to allow a full set of Special Team players. With the FG and PAT Replays you can now have players that just play STs and get max xp.
QB: 2
RB: 2
FB: 2
TE: 2 (which you need 3 in the Depth Chart or it will force your FB in on Goal line Formations)
WR: 5
Oline: 10
Dline: 8
LBs: 6
CB: 5
FS: 2
SS: 2
K/P: 2
KR/PR: 1
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49 players at MINIMUM
Why lower it?
I can give my thoughts on that one, just keep in mind that these are only my thoughts:
When you boil it down, there's really 2 groups of owners that GLB: The Haves and The Have Nots. For The Haves (I'd include myself, all WL owners, the most successful PL owners and then a handful of others that are either very well connected or make most/all the dots for their teams themselves), large rosters are an awesome thing. Since we are able to fill them with top quality dots, the more the better. Frankly, large rosters allow us to have more specialists and keep the overall energy lvls of the team higher.
Unfortunately, large rosters suck for most of The Have Nots. Look through the roster of the WL teams. Most have 55 players, only 2 have less than 51, and those are 15th & 16th place teams. Now go to AAA leagues and start checking the teams that finished 8-8 or less. All of a sudden, you start seeing a ton of teams with roster sizes in the low 40s. Simply put, there's a dot shortage in this game and it's killing the majority of teams. Why would a decent built dot go to an 8-8 AAA team when there are good PL teams fighting for him? How does the 8-8 team owner break out of his rut, no matter how good he is, when he just can't field a team of anything but the worst built dots (slight exaggeration, but not that far off either), and he can't even come up with 55 of them?
More often than not, he can't. So, he sells his team and some other poor sucker gets stuck in the same position, only to repeat the cycle. The more that happens, the larger the gap between The Haves and The Have Nots becomes, the more unbalanced the game becomes and the less fun it is for everyone.
I have no desire to reward crappy builds or owners. That's not my style. However, I do think you have to give potentially good owners a fighting chance to eventually field good teams. Since ssn 1 I've owned a team every ssn, but 1. My teams have made the POs every ssn, I'm well connected and have an OMG staff of real GMs. All that gives me a very large advantage over the majority of owners in this game. Still, I had to work very hard to field a full roster for next ssn. I started day one of this one and I just finished yesterday. If I had to work that hard, what chance does the AAA 8-8 owner have?
IMO, dropping the rosters to 50 (I would argue hard that anything lower than that is too low) would be a very big help. Not every dot that can't make a WL, PL or friends team will continue playing, but many of them will. In turn, that produces more dots to be spread out. Additionally, it's easier for the team with 44 dots to play against one with 50 than 55. Those 5 less dots makes a big difference in both areas.
Those are my thoughts/motivations, for what it's worth.