A lot of posters have pointed out that whoever has to play the less glamorous roles in the team would have little fun, which I can certainly understand. However, I can also see how the whole career development side of such a game would be a lot of fun and certainly rewarding, at least to a certain demographic. The concept certainly has the potential for containing all the traits of a typical MMOG: stats development, levelling up, long periods of bashing out horseshoes, etc.
I suggest that the easiest way to resolve the problem of the boring team positions within football, hockey and so on is to create a MMO sports game but replace the real-world games with fictional. For example, Speedball.
OK, obviously it would need to a different game, and certainly be in 3D, but this would seem to have the necessary attributes: the positions in the team are balanced; it's fast; tactical; requires team work; and by Dog is it fun !:)
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I suggest that the easiest way to resolve the problem of the boring team positions within football, hockey and so on is to create a MMO sports game but replace the real-world games with fictional. For example, Speedball.
OK, obviously it would need to a different game, and certainly be in 3D, but this would seem to have the necessary attributes: the positions in the team are balanced; it's fast; tactical; requires team work; and by Dog is it fun ! :)