To be fair I don't even know if we have morale turned on in this league. I can't imagine how I have never asked this question before. I do know that morale does severely affect player performance if it is turned on. Now there are 2 types of morale in this league, there is team morale and player morale. I have had chats on how severely morale does affect the game back when I ran a GM league back in the day and from the responses I received I decided for that league it was best to turn it off. In discussions I've found a lot of people saying things like this.
"I've maintained for a long time that Morale is the ugly duckling of the STHS experience. I believe it to be a potentially great feature, but as Foo alluded to in my experience it can have too much of an impact on the game-play even at low settings. And I think that is partly why many leagues choose not to activate it at all. To me that is a shame because I'm a firm believer in the potential of Morale being a tremendous aspect of the STHS experience as players and teams going through ups and downs over the course of a season adds another dimension for the managers to handle.Another aspect of Morale that I'm not entirely happy with, and one I've expressed before, is the fact that it remains the only rating we're not able to control through external sources. The "Update Ratings" function where we can easily load a new set of ratings into the Sim from a csv-file doesn't cover the Morale rating. This means there's no flexibility at all with this rating. There are only two options when it comes to Morale; either not run it at all or run it the way the Sim runs it (which many people find too intrusive or powerful)."
Now lets take a look at morale as it sits right now in this league.
Standings Team OVR Team Morale Player Morale AVG
1. 7-1-0 1. 66 1. 48 1. 44
2. 5-1-2 2. 66 2. 43 2. 44
3. 5-2-1 3. 66 3. 43 3. 43
4. 4-3-1 4. 65 4. 41 4. 41
5. 4-3-1 5. 65 5. 41 5. 40
6. 4-3-1 6. 65 6. 40 6. 40
7. 4-3-1 7. 64 7. 40 7. 40
8. 4-4-0 8. 63 8. 39 8. 40
9. 3-3-2 9. 63 9. 38 9. 39
10. 3-5-0 10. 61 10.37 10. 38
11. 3-5-0 11. 60 11. 37 11. 38
12. 2-5-1 12. 56 12. 35 12. 38
If you can't tell from this list, morale matters more than team overall. It is a small sample size though so I will need to revisit this at the end of the season. Prague doesn't make much sense to me but I predict they will fall in the standings as the season goes on. On the other hand Calgary which is my team has one of the better overall team averages but the Morale rating is keeping us from competing which is unfortunate. What do you think? Should the league turn off the morale setting and let the teams play on an equal field or should we leave it random so some teams get handicapped and create more randomness in the sim.
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