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View Poll Results: What is your favorite type of team to take over in a sports career text sim? | |||
Bad team | 27 | 29.03% | |
Expansion team | 21 | 22.58% | |
Local team | 35 | 37.63% | |
Mediocre team | 7 | 7.53% | |
Good/great team (maintain the greatness) | 3 | 3.23% | |
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06-17-2009, 02:09 PM | #1 | ||
Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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Sports career text sim challenge
I think I know what's going to win, but let's ask anyway.
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06-17-2009, 02:14 PM | #2 | ||
Favored Bitch #2
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here
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I tend to take over good/great teams because of the nature of the teams I like: Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Steelers, NY Yankees. Of course, I have yet to get through one season in football and baseball. Go figure.
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06-17-2009, 02:21 PM | #3 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I usually take teams that I root for, Dolphins/Braves/Man Utd.
In FM I will mix it up occasionally and play as a team in the Dutch league because you don't have to play a thousand games in a season like English teams and there are no foreigner restrictions. |
06-17-2009, 02:49 PM | #4 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
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Heerenveen FTW!
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06-17-2009, 02:54 PM | #5 |
Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I usually take the teams I root for as well, with some modifications. I almost always play the Lions because, well, they've pretty much always sucked since these games have been around.
In EHM, I take the Wings, though I usually do a fantasy draft to shake things up. I've only dabbled in baseball sims, but every time I dabbled I took the Tigers. In NCAA, I always created a university from scratch and built it up. For FM, I usually took a lower league English team, so it's all kind of random.
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06-17-2009, 02:55 PM | #6 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Start with my team (wherever they are on the scale), build them up, then restart with a bad team, build them up, and by then I'm usually done with the game.
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06-17-2009, 02:57 PM | #7 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Canada eh
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If it's there I like the expansion route (or if not, a league wide redraft while controlling one of my favorite teams). Lets me mold things from day one in the fashion I prefer and let's me really map out the next 3-5 seasons.
Second would be taking over a bad team and doing the same as above, but obviously in a bit slower fashion as you have to do a lot more asset management/movement just to get the rebuild really in motion.
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06-17-2009, 03:57 PM | #8 |
High School Varsity
Join Date: Oct 2000
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If expansion is an option, I like to take that route.
If that's not the case, I will generally play a lousy team and go from there. |
06-17-2009, 04:05 PM | #9 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Major American sports I'm usually the local team 99.9% of the time, or, NCAA wise, my alma mater (Colorado).
FM, I usually hit up a lower level team who has a cool sounding name or has good history. |
06-17-2009, 05:53 PM | #10 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Since FOF2007 doesn't have expansion, I checked bad team
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06-17-2009, 05:55 PM | #11 |
High School Varsity
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Georgia via Alaska via Washington
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Being a Seattle fan, I have the luxury of taking my favorites and bad teams all in one!
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06-17-2009, 09:06 PM | #12 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NC
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I like taking teams with lots of promising prospects and developing them around average veterans and seeing if I can make them into a good team.
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06-17-2009, 09:15 PM | #13 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Minnesota
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Twins, Vikings, Twolves, Gophers, Wild so local. If that isnt an option like WWSM I look for a lower team with strong history.
If any of the teams I like were too strong to start Id likely pick a bottom of the league type team as the challenge is building teams up. |
06-18-2009, 05:24 AM | #14 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Toledo - Spain
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Mediocre or bad team, i enjoy rebuilding way more than instant winning.
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06-18-2009, 07:14 AM | #15 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2006
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06-18-2009, 08:52 AM | #16 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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I like building from the ground up, so expansion is best followed by the league mutt.
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06-18-2009, 09:31 AM | #17 | |||
Favored Bitch #2
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here
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I really should do more rebuilding with teams. The problem is that it is difficult to do this with teams like the Red Wings and Steelers. I have tried being the Lions before, but as I said earlier, I never can seem to get through even one season for whatever reason. I generally tend to make a lot of trades to acquire young talent/prospects/draft picks, and this sets me up for a great future; albeit a future I never see.
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06-18-2009, 10:11 AM | #18 | |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Toledo - Spain
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I'm a Dolphins and Marlins fan so... i know about rebuilding
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06-18-2009, 01:22 PM | #19 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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I picked local, but in retrospect have no idea why. I actually prefer either random LLM in FM or fictional universes in other sims, but that choice was missing.
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06-18-2009, 01:31 PM | #20 | |||
Favored Bitch #2
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here
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As was the trout option.
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06-18-2009, 01:32 PM | #21 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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07-06-2009, 09:36 AM | #22 |
Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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Thanks, everyone, for your votes and replies.
I didn't include a random team option because I can't think of any reason anyone would want that. I certainly wouldn't pick it, but I guess some do. I'll include it in the future. Local teams, huh? I thought that would come in third (behind bad team and expansion team). So I guess I'm a little surprised. |
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