Re: Fifa 11
Well, generally, if you go on assisted it's damned difficult to get people pick even teams anyway. I once played someone... I put my team on 2.5 stars, and he picked 3. I picked 3, he picked 3.5, I picked 3.5, he picked 4, I picked 4, he picked 4.5, and I picked 4.5, he picked Barcelona. I almost cried (considering this took about a minute).
The best thing to do would be to actually have a rating system which actively gave a shit about what you used. Make using a lesser club not a losing proposition. Romagnoli's solution works up to a point but it shouldn't be necessary. The worst thing about the current situation is there is very little doubt that the best thing to do IS to use the best team possible. The rating system clearly doesn't, however much it tries, counter for those effects. I don't mind playing people if I know that I'm not playing in a game where basically all that matters is winning.
I wouldn't mind playing against Barcelona if I knew that the rewards were evened out with how good they were. The reward to do this is already part of teh game - it just doesn't do near enough. The current system is so biased towards who wins that you might as well always use the team you are most likely to win with.
Incidentally - does anyone use those 3-3.5 star filters?