The EU LCS schedule has really made things difficult for fantasy.
The easiest solution is probably to add more spots to the bench for reserve players so you don't have to drop someone every week when trying to get a full roster with 2 matches each.
Falcon Man56jk1 votesAlso another help would be to expand 2 lane limits, maybe just raise to 3. It's hard for me to keep my EU pocket picks (jankos, febi, Perkz, Rekless, ect) because they may only be playing 1 game, so i take them out that week and put in my consistent NA pick. Then say a team gets a great match up week (like splyce), but i cant put that player in because I want to keep my pocket picks while keeping my consistent players.
Basically now that EU isn't as consistent as NA with matches, it creates these problems. Example: I want jankos as my jg, and i pick Dardock second for consistency, yet Trashy is suppose to have some killer matches this week (but after i don't trust him as much) Who do i drop? Risk losing my consistence? Risk losing the player i actually want? just don't use players like trashy (Which for me would take the fun out of fantasy)? Idk i feel like NA and EU having different match arrangements makes it hard to compare the two, like NA players just have that unfair consistent edge over arguably better EU players.
Feysaan1 votesAgree. Raising the position limit would be another helpful change. Though I think it should accompany an increase in bench spots as well.
Pseudo Q2 votesA larger bench in general could help. It wouldn't be a solution, but it would help.
But I disagree with increasing it to 3 per role.
Using a 6-man Fantasy league and an arbitrary single role as an example. Expanding to 3 per role wouldn't necessarily help, and would expose the system to abuse.
Currently, a 6-man Fantasy league allows 12 ADCs to be rostered (in either starting line-up or bench positions). Most weeks, only 2 EU teams will be playing 2 best-of-3 matches. That's 12 viable ADCs per week (10 from NA and 2 from EU), regardless of tier.
With being able to roster 3 per role, it is possible for 4 players to monopolise all viable ADCs, leaving the remaining 2 players with a choice of 8 guaranteed sub-optimal picks.
This would be worse in an 8-man Fantasy league. In fact, even if both NA and EU played 2 best-of-3 matches per week, 7 players could starve 1 player from having any ADC picks at all.
Falcon Man56jk1 votesSure, in an 8-man hypothetically 7 players could starve the one, but the one (in initial drafting) would've had the chance to pick an optimal adc no matter what. It'd be his fault competitively in my opinion.
As for the 4 players monopolizing 3 ADCs hypothetical, those players wouldn't have optimal JG, Mid subs so the other players can play off that. And sure they may be stuck with an EU player whos only playing 1 match that week, but for me that shows the weakness of the new format for Eu while keeping the same old Fantasy style.
Overall I still lack to see the issue, besides your monopolizing hypothetical's, which just leave those players with weak other lanes that can be abused. Also knowing fantasy players, I think the monopolizing would happen very rarely, and if it did happen I'd see it as a competitive challenge (chat more with other players, trade more, keep the players moving). Idk this is just me personally.