I've been on FUMBBL for a little while, and I'm starting to notice some odd trends.

In any league that runs for a long enough time a certain culture will develop. This culture will help certain teams win, and will help other teams counteract the teams that win. If you look at a league long enough you can tell the races that win by the skills the other coaches pick.

In my table top league we had a number of very good Elf teams, Wood Elves and High Elves to be exact. These coaches relied heavily on a dodging/passing game and so over the seasons the league ran a culture of tackle/pass block/strip ball evolved. Very often these skills came before skills that might help a coach win more simply because the skills counter acted the biggest threats in the league.

As is the case, the increase in strip ball and tackle created an influx of Leap and Sure Hands, and the cycle repeated itself with the balance of power shifting one way, then the other.

On FUMBBL I've had to get used to a new culture. A Claw/MB/PO culture. While it's not 100% the majority of good teams are high AV bashing teams, and the easiest counter to those teams is a combination of Claw and Mighty Blow. However, other coaches have taken a different tack, and their success can be seen in the number of high movement, low AV teams that have found success in league and ranked play.

While this is certainly not news to any of the FUMBBL veterans, I found it intriguing how the culture is so vastly different from the table top leagues I've played in.