I guess I'm late to the party, but after seeing the distribution of HAMs teams, I can conclude a few things that helped them win ONCE

1. Entire team follows 1 strategy. This is just naturally effective than wrangling and motley crew

2. Stamina is not important to their strategy, particularly because they have depth.

3. Depth is also pretty huge

4. Only 2 goal scorers on the team

5. Agility also very important, as is strength (because checking)

Basically, all I can really say for certain about HAMs "gaming" is that they built their team very specifically. This to me, at most, aludes to the existence of a pair of scissors in a rock-paper-scissors scenario, rather than "the new exploit". I mean fuck, are we really saying that HAM discovered the 1995 Devils and it's bad?

But it also begs the question: What are other teams doing? Do they have a specific strategy that didn't work? What builds ARENT working?