Inflation of Skill

[Dabnad 172]

Over the couple of days, we’ve seen a lot of TPE being handed out due to festival season. This has excited many people however, should we really be excited about this or is it an cause of inflation to the teams? This had made me think of this manner as a country. I’m saying this as even if we got 15 TPE so did the other team players. When we end up thinking of it this way we realise that the extra handout is identical to how inflation works in a country. The excess TPE just adds more skill to every team giving it to more diverse fields. All this may be true HOWEVER, you have to remember this 15 odd TPE can and will be a deciding factor in many new players inside this league. Many new (non-returning) players get encouragement seeing this extra TPE giving them mental strength. It also helps increase their numbers in the long term and for those who weren’t able to attend this week, it gives an advantage over them.
 

So what do I think of extra TPE being handed out? I think that it’s a very good idea as it motivates the young population to get more TPE and helps those who might be busy in their lives. However, I do think it is the cause of a inflation of TPE inside of the VHL. Now that I’ve shown you both sides of the spectrum feel free to make your own conclusions for the inflation caused in the league.

[dlamb 1,326]

As far as I know, TPE inflation was an issue before I joined (in the 60's-ish) and has since cut down the amount of uncapped opportunities there are as a whole. You can see this on the all time TPE leaderboard, where no S70+ player has come within even 350 TPE of the all time #1, Ryan Kastelic. Obviously that gap may close now that we have 9-season careers, and Kastelic is an extreme example, but still speaks to the volumes of how the inflation has been dealt with.