Look, there are some really old players on this game. I'm talking 50+. I'm talking 60+. Some people think that they should be removed from the game when they reach a certain age. However, I like the idea of keeping these players in the game at such an old age. It makes BB unique. Like, how awesome is it that you can have a 62 year old on your team?
(717068). That's brilliant really.
What I don't like is that these players don't actually help your team in any way. One of the problems with this is the lack of salary discrepancy going on here. Let's take two players on my team for example.
Here's Vittorio Blotto
(35112688). Solid player. Well rounded. Can contribute. Could probably win MVP in a D5 league.
Now here's Eugene Bollinger
(717445). Very dusty. His hair's uneven. Couldn't even beat an elephant with 3 legs and no tusk one on one. Could not contribute to any team ever in the history of BB.
The difference in salary between a decent player and a piece of trash is about 5k. That's it. Just 5k. No one has ever said no to a player because it would force them to pay an extra 5k per week. Hell, you get 50k for winning a cup game. That would be 10 weeks of owning Blotto instead of Bollinger. Everyone would take that deal.
Bollinger has essentially no purpose on BB aside from being a guy that you keep on your team so you can laugh at how bad he is. If we're going to keep these kind of players on BB (which we should), they should serve more of a purpose than that. They should actually be able to contribute to your team.
And quite frankly, there should be a much bigger difference in salary between these two players. And no, that does not mean that Blotto should make more money. 5k is a perfectly suitable salary for him. Anything more would mess up the economy.
What I'm saying is that Bollinger's salary should be able to hit 0. It should be able to go negative. He should be paying you to keep him on your team. He should be thanking you for allowing him to be on your roster despite not being able to guard a one eyed alcoholic koala with a cocaine addiction. He should be thanking you for the customized wheelchair you allow him to sit in to watch games since the bench gives him back problems. That's just how it is.
I propose to you something like this:
http://imgur.com/LXZFMpNImagine how much the game would open up. So many new strategies to get to the top, so many possibilities. Just think of all the things you could do with the money he pays you! You could buy a trainee, you could buy a national team player, you could even buy another player that pays you money!
Like, could you imagine if the reason why KK Mordor 3-peated on BB this season is because he bought a player that pays him 30k per week, which opened up enough space for him to buy another national team player? That would be insane. But it should all be possible. It actually gives these old players a reason to be on your team.
Just think about Bollinger. He's out here living the dream playing basketball for a living, even though if I had to pick between him and a drunk lamp post with ADHD to give me 36 minutes in the finals right now, I'd probably choose the latter. There is absolutely no way I should have to pay him my own money to allow him to live the dream playing basketball.
Here's a graph that really puts things into perspective:
http://imgur.com/9SAnTBjDoes this seem fair? If your name is Eugene Bollinger, sure, maybe it does. If you are literally any of the other 7 billion people on this planet, you may realize that something is up. Bollinger should not be making more money than any of these legends. He shouldn't even be making the same amount of money as these legends. It's only fair that his salary goes negative.
So I propose to you that we allow salaries to go negative.