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As an option, sure, go for it. It's useful for point difference which can have extreme importance at the end of the season.

However, garbage time is also useful for the GS which is important all the time. I do play scrimmage against teams I expect to beat easily and thus know roughly the minutes that'll be played on Thursday. Same in league/cup if I know I'll win easily.

This.

I draw attention to point 3, as the argument presented seems to contradict the conclusion.

As it currently is, players compete on an equal footing, subject to the same rules. Thus, one cannot complain that this or that player was harmed.

On the other hand, the proposed way is that someone may end up complaining that his player was not the leader board just because the opponent played his entire career without garbage time.

Can you tell me how it's "equal footing" in terms of leaderboards when your players just play 26-27 minutes a game while your opponents play 10-15 minutes more?

Just because everyone is competing using the same rules does not mean everyone is in equal footing. These rules very obviously favours teams that have close games and penalize teams that are very much above the competition. As a team that's very much better than your opponent, you aren't allowed to compete to your fullest potential. If we abolish garbage time or make garbage time optional, everyone is playing by the same rules as well. Plus if it's optional, you get more control, which leads us to this:

On the other hand, the proposed way is that someone may end up complaining that his player was not the leader board just because the opponent played his entire career without garbage time.

Who in their right mind would complain about this when it's their own choice for choosing garbage time? If you choose to have garbage time while your opponent chooses not to have garbage time, it's nothing but your fault alone if your players don't make to the top of the leaderboards, coz you yourself chose to limit his minutes.

Dear non-American friend (I am, but neither am I ),
It seems clear to me that in the case of this game, the closest thing to the concept of "equal conditions" that can be offered to the gaming community is precisely to make everyone play subject to the same rules.
Then, everything will depend on the goals, moment, style, dedication and quality of management of each one of us.

As I said, that argument didn't sound very smart to me... you were almost convincing me with the first two.

Anyway, I'm not opposed to the idea, although I think it's an unnecessary implementation.

If the devs think it's worth the work, it can be a little useful especially for those who are very concerned about player stats, leaderboards, etc.

Greetings

This could be an option. If a manager chooses the play his starters in the garbage time, it may consume enthusiasm.

After all, convincing your starters to continue to play the game even if you have already won needs real enthusiasm.