One thing I'm always interested in with any career mode that includes multiple levels of competition to progress through is how the game handles progressing through those tiers and still allowing the user to improve.
Most games, including sport, use results based XP in order to "grow" their characters and improve. Take wickets, score runs, the better you do, the more XP you get, the better your attributes get etc.
One issue I always ran into playing MLB The Show's single player career is that the jump from AAA baseball to full MLB baseball was so hard. The attribute level for being a productive, standout AAA player was generally at a benchmark that would make you struggle in the MLB.
So you then get stuck in a limbo of being too good for AAA, but not good enough for MLB. And if you're not good enough, you don't get as much XP, so you don't improve much, so you're pretty much stuck unless you grind through it over however long of just being a bit naff.
And no game really offers an option of going to the manager and saying, hey, I'd like to go back down a level please. Let me hammer these rank amateurs in club cricket to boost myself, then I'll be that much better when you call me up.
You can always tilt the sliders/difficulty in your favour until you're over that hump, but that just feels a bit cheap to do.
