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(This post was last modified: 2025-10-05, 04:22 AM by Froste39. Edited 1 time in total.)
This Deep Dive is a dedicated Academy Task 5. I will take a look at the current player distribution in the league regarding their nationality and identify where we have an overflowing amount of competition in the WSFC rosters and where we are scraping the barrel to get a team together. New draftees may take this as an inspiration to see where their player shoulx maybe be from for a guaranteed roster spot and HO might take notes for next WFSC and perhaps altering the existing teams (just put the cheque in the mail as always).
I will start with the nations that have an overwhelming amount of players.
Perhaps as expected the USA has the biggest playerbase with a whooping 54 total players. Even if you deduct the 23 inactives from this nation this still leaves us with 31 active players that you would have to compete with for a roster spot.
The only way to see playimg time would be to change nationality or hope for the opening of a 2nd USA team.
HO could consider closing US player creation to balance things out some more, but that would mean restricting your choices and maybe keep irl americans from creating in this league which would be even worse.
The next biggest team would be the British Isles with 53 players in total and the UK having 28 actives and 15 inactives out of those. The easiest solution here would be to seperate the UK like in real life and have teams for every part of the kingdom or at least bunch 2 of them together. I think way back my scottish player played for a nation consisting of scotland, ireland, north ireland and iceland. I could see this working again.
These are the biggest two offenders so to speak. We also have a high playerbase for Canada with 26 total, but 14 of those are inactive which leads me to believe that you would have healthy competition for your roster spot, but no hopeless time in your early career.
Central Europe also has 32 total players, but this number heavily changes, depending on where you draw the borders really. I could see different confederations work out really well to balance things out.
Now to the regions who are in dire need of recruitment
To keep things short, both Asia and Africa need help. Especially Africa has regions without a single player. East and West Africa amount a total of 26 players, counting the inactives as well. If you wanted to have a team of actives you could think about adding a team for the whole continent and not splitting it up.
Asia has a total of 30 players all over the continent which is also a little troubling with the former dutch east indies barely having any players.
A team for a whole continent, the biggest in the world even, seems to be a little underwhelming and I could see some cool federations splitting the continent if the playerbase is supporting this.
Same goes for the whole of Eastern Europe which at the moment includes a loooot of countries. I would like to see those split up some more, but 31 total players, counting inactives, will make it hard. Take the baltics for example, Estonia has 1, Latvia 3 and Lithuania 2 players right now. Just a little more and a baltics federation might be possible.
All in all, disregarding the american bias (which most probably comes from irl demographics in the sim league universe), the playerbase mostly reflects the irl soccer distribution with Europe and the British Isles sporting the biggest playerbase.
I will start with the nations that have an overwhelming amount of players.
Perhaps as expected the USA has the biggest playerbase with a whooping 54 total players. Even if you deduct the 23 inactives from this nation this still leaves us with 31 active players that you would have to compete with for a roster spot.
The only way to see playimg time would be to change nationality or hope for the opening of a 2nd USA team.
HO could consider closing US player creation to balance things out some more, but that would mean restricting your choices and maybe keep irl americans from creating in this league which would be even worse.
The next biggest team would be the British Isles with 53 players in total and the UK having 28 actives and 15 inactives out of those. The easiest solution here would be to seperate the UK like in real life and have teams for every part of the kingdom or at least bunch 2 of them together. I think way back my scottish player played for a nation consisting of scotland, ireland, north ireland and iceland. I could see this working again.
These are the biggest two offenders so to speak. We also have a high playerbase for Canada with 26 total, but 14 of those are inactive which leads me to believe that you would have healthy competition for your roster spot, but no hopeless time in your early career.
Central Europe also has 32 total players, but this number heavily changes, depending on where you draw the borders really. I could see different confederations work out really well to balance things out.
Now to the regions who are in dire need of recruitment
To keep things short, both Asia and Africa need help. Especially Africa has regions without a single player. East and West Africa amount a total of 26 players, counting the inactives as well. If you wanted to have a team of actives you could think about adding a team for the whole continent and not splitting it up.
Asia has a total of 30 players all over the continent which is also a little troubling with the former dutch east indies barely having any players.
A team for a whole continent, the biggest in the world even, seems to be a little underwhelming and I could see some cool federations splitting the continent if the playerbase is supporting this.
Same goes for the whole of Eastern Europe which at the moment includes a loooot of countries. I would like to see those split up some more, but 31 total players, counting inactives, will make it hard. Take the baltics for example, Estonia has 1, Latvia 3 and Lithuania 2 players right now. Just a little more and a baltics federation might be possible.
All in all, disregarding the american bias (which most probably comes from irl demographics in the sim league universe), the playerbase mostly reflects the irl soccer distribution with Europe and the British Isles sporting the biggest playerbase.
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