Which is a better team approach?

[Cowboy06]

1. A team with average players with a few great players
2. A team with consistently good players with no great players

I contend that if you want to build a good team that has a chance to win and hoist the Lombardi trophy, you build the team with consistently good players. A TEAM is bigger than just one player. I often wonder if you just have good, not necessarily great players at most if not all positions, could you get by if the QB goes down? or the WR is out with a bad hand or a young CB seems afraid of success and is often hurt.. I'm not saying, just saying.

What say you? How do you build a team?

 

[Tabascocat]

Inside out with players who are consistent and stay healthy. It doesn't matter if a team has 8 great players if none are on the lines. That might be enough to get into the playoffs but it will not go to a SB.

 

[Proximo]

"Great" is very subjective. In my opinion any team that wants to contend year in and year out needs a few great players, supported by a larger cast of good to better than good players. A team with a bunch of good or slightly better than good players but no great players could win a championship (emphasis on could) but I think it'd be unlikely and even more unlikely that they'd repeat even if they did pull it off once.

In this current league of parity you need at least one or two great players to give you that edge. Then the hard part is finding those great players while maintaining a solid roster everywhere else.

 

[Gameover]

1.

Great players make average player good players.

1 = the giants on their two SB runs

2 = the Bengals Falcons

 

[Cowboy06]

I suppose the real question is as a team do you want to play consistently well or occasionally great? I tire of teams that go up and down from week to week only to peter out week 17.

 

[Proximo]

I suppose the real question is as a team do you want to play consistently well or occasionally great? I tire of teams that go up and down from week to week only to peter out week 17.

Consistency is the key. And that comes from the supporting cast. The "great" players on the team are consistent (by my definition they'd have to be consistent to be considered great to start with). The up and down play is going to come from your role players, or fringe starters who are on the verge of being replaced.

If you can get consistency out of those guys who don't need to be great, while having your great players do their thing, you'll find yourself in a good position every year.