@slipknot-008_xbl said in When you create a theme team for a club..:

I was having a discussion with a friend about this and I’m interested to see what the community uses for theme team parameters. We are talking team based, not state, country, etc.

Do you put in prospects that never played for the big club but have been drafted by them?

Do you require players to have X amount of years with the team?

Do you try to balance with lefty and righty or aim for whatever’s best?

Do you go for primary position or elect to have players play in secondary or out of position?

It will be interesting to see people’s answers and thought processes behind team building!

a: sometimes. i usually prefer to have somebody that is an active or former major leaguer, but if its a really good future stars card at a position without a lot of depth ill include them. i also want them to still be in the teams farm system. like no way id use josiah gray on a dodgers theme team now that he got traded away

b: i dont have a specific years played requirement. i look at it more on a case by case basis. like for example, kenny lofton would never make a dodgers theme team cause he had one year played and it was at the end of his career. like nobody thinks of kenny lofton as a dodger. i would use scherzer cause he's actively on the team though despite it being only a short time (so far at least). same with like gary sheffield, he played long enough and well enough that even though that's not the team on his card or who he's most known for playing for, i dont think anybody would be surprised to see him on a theme team of theirs. that being said, if i had to pick between starting duke snider/gary sheffield, im picking duke 100% of the time because he is an iconic dodger and the game ratings are comparable

whatever's best. its a combination of getting my favorite players for that team on it and also fielding a quality lineup

d: i prefer to play them at their original position, but ill move them out of position if its to a spot that they played for the team occasionally and it helps fill the roster up. like some teams have a lot of good and iconic players that all played the same position so if you can move them around to make the roster better and more representative of the team id go for it

tl;dr its complicated and id just go with what feels right to you

Community Forum

Mereel13_PSN