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In my own league, I've allowed people in the past an opportunity to "re-roll" a player's ability once a season and give them a chance to be randomly assigned a new X-Factor. Sometimes they got one they liked more, sometimes they got one they liked less, and in the case of some, they'd often end up getting the exact same one because there weren't that many available for that particular archetype. That's why giving people a chance to pick their own X-Factors within their archetypes feels like a chance to allow a little more customization without making it game-breaking or anything.
The item in this first batch of franchise updates that can easily affect league the most is the opportunity to now influence the shape of your league by dictating a set number of players at each dev trait (stars, superstars and superstar X-Factors) within your league. These new sliders within a league's settings should allow you to ensure that there are never too many elite players in the league at any given time, which seems like a good idea in theory.
However, the actual impact of how this will play out in a league with 32 users is something that will take a lot of time and trial and error to properly assess. The patch notes indicate that certain players will be eligible for regression in the offseason, and if there are more players of a certain dev trait than desired then a number of
buy Madden 23 ltds coins players will have their dev traits regressed in a way that makes sense.
Personally, I don't feel like this is as big of a Mut 23 coins deal as some will. The fact that these X-Factors are still tied to a player's abilities and requires them to meet a certain threshold in order to utilize an ability helps ensure that no one should be able to abuse this feature in any impactful way. It's not as if anyone will be able to take a bigger running back like Derrick Henry and equip him with an X-Factor like Juke Box so he's suddenly bounding around the field like he's Barry Sanders.
