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Originally Posted by Cheese
I didnt see any difference in the way teams played last year compared to previous? I dont think that there was as much influence as thought. I like the coaches and think they should be a part of the league.
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We actually made the change several seasons ago, after hearing many complaints that sim results were too random.
So we looked at two primary ways to reduce the randomness - turning of Momentum, which really allowed teams to go on long losing or winning streaks and turning off coaches.
During that summer, we ran a bunch of test seasons through the sim to evaluate what helped to produce more realistic results, including getting GM input, before the collective decision was to turn of coaches and MO.
I do think it has helped to improve the realism of the sim.
That being said, if people want coaches just for fun, someone can volunteer to facilitate the process and ongoing maintenance. But we wouldn't put them back in the sim.
Part of the challenge with coaches in the sim was there is no fair way to set their ratings. While you can use stats to produce player ratings how do you do it for the coaches? It ends up being completely arbitrary.