Not that they’re doing a good job with captains in their current iteration, they’re clearly not, but I don’t think the Madden theme team system would work in baseball either tbh. There are too many players that have played on a bunch of teams in their careers that we’d end up with some dumb metas again like when we had durability and shortstop captains because we would just have enough possible combinations of players who played for enough teams to get random team-based boosts. I think a good start to fixing the current captain iteration is to give us new captain cards every 45 days that are always slightly behind the power creep, but boost themselves up to the current creep at tier 3. And each is their own program that get progressively easier as the cycle goes on, but if you have the previous captain, you can just collect them for full program progress. That gives us a system where you only have to grind out a team’s pitching and hitting captains once, they stay relevant throughout the year, and it can mix up the players who are actually the captains so that it doesn’t restrict releasing the same name as the currently relevant captain for that team. Also, for the love of god they need to stop recycling the jolt series for captains. The art is boring and it’s literally just been “the captain series” twice now iirc