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If I were a blogger or hype merchant, this article would be called "Complete SSL Traits Tier List."
Alas, I'm just a serial ideas tinkerer, and I lack the deep FM awareness to rank all FM traits at all, let alone for SSL purposes. So instead, what you're getting is a slightly silly, slightly serious peek at an alternate SSL. I won't say this alternate SSL is better or worse (probably each in different ways). I present it only to inspire our SSL to be the best league it can be.
So, let's look at the SSSL - the Simulated Simulation Soccer League. Because the best I'm capable of is a simulation of the real simulated thing.
At player creation some SSSL players are just like their SSL equivalents. Some other SSSL players get a little more cash than SSL players. Not much, just a bit. They need it, because they also come with weaknesses. Some immature pricks Argue With Officials, others with positions further up the pitch might be timid sorts who Stay Back At All Times, despite coaching instructions or hopes. These impediments would be generated once a new SSSL player chooses their positions. They add a touch of flavour to the league, making use of some "always bad" or "situationally bad" traits in order to have a fuller use of FM traits than their cousins in the SSL (the SSSL nincompoops are awfully proud of themselves for this). With a little extra cash on hand, these players can buy off those traits and end up just like their SSL counterparts - or else they can keep them, and spend the cash on something else of value.
The SSSL is able to do this, of course, because they've estimated well enough the true relative value of all the FM traits available to players, and the relative value of buying them off to remove them (the debates among the SSSL BoD as to whether different positions should pay different rates for the same traits was a doozy, I tell you). Their meta is different than ours, because everyone's pace is locked at the commissioner's lucky number (13). Still, they've used abacuses and ouija boards to get those estimates. They're quite confident in them.
Am I advocating anything for the SSL here? Only the use of ouija boards in any meaningful planning we do. I trust the board here fully, it's just fun to throw ideas at them from left field from time to time.
If you would like to create an SSSL player, though, I'm happy to oblige. Join now!
Alas, I'm just a serial ideas tinkerer, and I lack the deep FM awareness to rank all FM traits at all, let alone for SSL purposes. So instead, what you're getting is a slightly silly, slightly serious peek at an alternate SSL. I won't say this alternate SSL is better or worse (probably each in different ways). I present it only to inspire our SSL to be the best league it can be.
So, let's look at the SSSL - the Simulated Simulation Soccer League. Because the best I'm capable of is a simulation of the real simulated thing.
At player creation some SSSL players are just like their SSL equivalents. Some other SSSL players get a little more cash than SSL players. Not much, just a bit. They need it, because they also come with weaknesses. Some immature pricks Argue With Officials, others with positions further up the pitch might be timid sorts who Stay Back At All Times, despite coaching instructions or hopes. These impediments would be generated once a new SSSL player chooses their positions. They add a touch of flavour to the league, making use of some "always bad" or "situationally bad" traits in order to have a fuller use of FM traits than their cousins in the SSL (the SSSL nincompoops are awfully proud of themselves for this). With a little extra cash on hand, these players can buy off those traits and end up just like their SSL counterparts - or else they can keep them, and spend the cash on something else of value.
The SSSL is able to do this, of course, because they've estimated well enough the true relative value of all the FM traits available to players, and the relative value of buying them off to remove them (the debates among the SSSL BoD as to whether different positions should pay different rates for the same traits was a doozy, I tell you). Their meta is different than ours, because everyone's pace is locked at the commissioner's lucky number (13). Still, they've used abacuses and ouija boards to get those estimates. They're quite confident in them.
Am I advocating anything for the SSL here? Only the use of ouija boards in any meaningful planning we do. I trust the board here fully, it's just fun to throw ideas at them from left field from time to time.
If you would like to create an SSSL player, though, I'm happy to oblige. Join now!
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