I literally battled/suffered/self-harmed through this for years. At my worst, I was updating lineups and rotations once a month and transactions every 2 weeks. Years went by doing this in all my sports games. Then around 2015, I even wrote a blog post about it here, I noticed I had spent more time in my life updating sports games than playing them. And that my really pleasurable and memorable experiences were the ones when I had completed a season, whether I won the championship or lost along the way.
EVERYthing changed for me from that point. Everything. I noticed that even the mathematical accuracy argument I was basing my carbon-copied real life updating on had massive holes in its logic. So did I strip everything away and play full fantasy franchise mode letting the world of the game control everything like most people? No. In a way, I went more strict or rather, more adherent to the statistical experiment of letting the numbers (stats, ratings) do all the work and imposing as little as possible by blocking anything that could impede the starting lineups from changing except for in cases of massive injury, heavily influential transaction/trade, or flat out retirement. I have never been happier playing sports games. I can expand on this method if anyone cares to hear about it but I fear I've already lost more than half of you who probably don't care as most people can't read more than 2 sentences before moving on online anymore.
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