Your team members need to be team players and know each other.

BiggerPockets is not your typical real estate site where anything goes, but I hope you'll find that because of the way we do things, the entire community benefits, as opposed to just a handful of dominant players who have a powerful marketing machine behind them.Best,Josh

This limits the pool of players to the criteria listed above.

Get to know some of the players in syndications and understand what assets you're interested in. 

But I do think Evolve and Vacasa are the largest players in the space for a reason, it's just not for everyone.

How many other players are there though in the league 5'11" right now?

Did not know that Nudge and everyone else were such big players.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8843/52438-wan...You can get a real estate or construction management degree, then get hired by the big players, make a lot of money from them, and then start on your own.

or unwritten rules between the bigger players not to run the bids up.

I am glad that you inspire other to be big players in BP too.