For sure it's difficult to win championships, I'm now 5-10 in the LC. There is little margin for error and these games often comes down to which team gets the most favorable "dice rolls", as both teams are usually solid in all 3 phases of the game.
Agreed. I possess a terrible title record and as I reflect upon it maybe some of it is over-achieving with the team to get them there. But what is it that makes them so difficult to win? Oft times the team on the other side of the ball could be so well rostered (remember your getting the league's best at this point) with a cadre of 90+ DBs or 90+ Playmakers you could script the greatest gameplan ever and not win. There's just some you can't win.
Then there's the very exclusive club of GMs where no matter their roster structure the strategies they have in place will take you down on a 99% guaranteed level to the point well I don't know...lets say you have a 13k passer for the season with 110 passing touchdowns you're not going to win because the dice rolls of false starts, offensive holding penalties and interceptions all go his way before you know what hit you. :P
Then there's ones you over-produce and screw it up for yourself and of course ones where you say how did that happen??? And ones you flat out get beat in strategy because the other GM is just as kickass as you and it's a flat out, respectable war. :)