Thats not necessarily true. If you have a deep team you can facilitate a deep run without having to run your starters and only if you are unlucky to be matched up against a relatively strong opponents int he first few weeks.
So if you don't have a deep team and have to send in your starters into the cup you should be punished more than a deeper team.
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if you are unlucky to be matched up against a relatively strong opponents int he first few weeks.
So again should be punished over a team that has to play against a bot, because you were unlucky and the others were lucky to play against bot's.
Barring any bad luck, the first 3-4 weeks of a cup run is mainly against D4-D3 teams (from australia) which a D2 team's bench can safely dispose of without having to run starters
What about if your in Spain or the USA, should you be punished because you don't have bot's in div 4?
Your not the only one playing this game, you have to think about how any changes are going to affect others playing the game. The best thing about BB is that everyone can come up with there own strategy on how they want to play. The BB's are adding stuff like Inside/ outside Isolation and Inside / outside box and 1 to create more and different strategy's.
If they keep taking away the ability to come up with different strategy's we will all be playing the same way and that would not be fun.
It the same as why the BB's wont stop day trading. It's a different strategy and anyone can do it if they want.