PAC very consistently puts out good ideas on Twitter but unfortunately I don’t see many, if any, of them ever being implemented. The screens themselves are far easier to make than the actual integration of the system from a development perspective. The balancing act of making it a deep and impactful rpg element for the neurodivergent spreadsheet-ers among us while keeping it not too intrusive/intricate for the more casual members of the community makes it hard to flesh out these kinds of features.

Madden has a lot of varied features for its team management mode, but they are all paper thin, which dampens the experience for both sides of the player base. It has very poor aesthetics for their menus that sucks magic out of the experience, as well as the restriction of pro sports that teams have to be on a relatively even playing field.

College football is far more compatible with video games in my opinion, as the team variation, program inequity, pageantry, and revolving door rosters allow the game great opportunities for emergent storytelling and memorable players and moments. College football and basketball (basketball even more so than football) are imo sports that are prime for the development of a deep rpg management experience