*Should We Expand (Hint: Yes)

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#1 I didn't say 20 was normal. I said it was a full roster. Including multiple o-line players and at least one backup on each side. And as someone else alluded to...this number has never actually been a reality. It's literally the number I use because its so big it cant be called underselling.

This is the number one thing I've become more and more concerned about. Even since my time joining with the S22 class I've seen the insane depth and saturation of teams around the league become so normalized and it isn't a good thing for anyone. For GMs and teams it makes team building so much less of a challenge. Being in the OCO war room the last few seasons has been pretty boring for the draft, we were set up so well that all of our possible moves to improve the team mostly involved moving aging or near regression players to OL, we barely really cared about the draft, and for a while weren't even putting out scouting for the S26 draft. That leads to it being worse and worse for players, there are fewer and fewer spots season after season for players in popular positions and especially for lower activity players, who basically only have a place in the DSFL. I'd be interested to see how many players spend a full 4 seasons in the DSFL year over year, because it definitely feels like more and more each season. Overall I definitely worry that using that 20 number is going to lead us to only expand to 16 teams, when if we used a roster size more in accordance to the average through league history we'd probably be looking at 18-20.