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quirky because - everyone on your team has massive eyebrows?

My plan is to do extreme patient offense :)

I have to admit that I have copied you. I have purchased some players with "unusual" skill sets and patient is my second best tactic and I have had some real success with it.

I'm not saying everyone does it, but buying up just for the finals is the suckiest part of the game. Just the same as tanking and then buying up to avoid relegation. It sucks for everyone else and is easily the worst part of the game.

I agree with you here. I have long argued that they should do the same as the NBA where rosters are locked a week after the all star game.

100% agreed.

Rosters don't necessarily have to be locked, but the transfer deadline for playoff eligibility definitely needs to be earlier.

Locking the rosters completely would add a certain element to team management though.

Yes. When I say locked I mean playoff eligibility. I have no issue with people still buying and selling guys for scrimmages.

Definitely agree with that.

It seems very simple to me. We obviously have all played basketball and know that you need to play a certain number of games to qualify for finals. The same should apply here. If there was a limit of say 5 - 10 matches to be eligable for finals then the issue would be put to bed. Those wanting to go the big spend up method would need a lot more money and the risk of failure would be far greater.

I think a player needs to have played half of the season to be eligable for finals. This will hurt some if they have injuries but that is life.

A couple of really good suggestions that would certainly add something to the game. Making the playoff cut off date occur sooner or placing a minimum game requirement for playoff qualification. I can see the debates on this firing up!

I've been burnt and seen it happen to plenty of others as well (Beechy comes to mind instantly). Managers are able to buy in huge salary teams, within such a short time before playoffs, that they can easily save enough money to get them through finals without going bankrupt. This has been especially so of late because those high salary players can be bought at such ridiculously cheap prices. Most teams can't afford the weekly wage of a $150k player in Div 2, so more people compete for players between $50k-$120k and pay more trying to purchase those players in bid wars, in comparison to those purchasing the higher tier players due to less trade market competition. There is some risk involved but more often than not, these teams can bank on achieving their goa byl using this tactic.

If they had to keep these high salary players for a longer time, it would make them have to plan ahead a bit better. They would still be able to save up, it would just take longer to accumulate enough cash to make it work. Quite possibly this may deter at least some managers from taking this easy option to a title.

Part of the problem is also that in order to promote and stay up, you need a team worthy of the division before you get there. So it really is a matter of timing and having all the dominoes in place. It's a tough one really and unfortunately I don't see any changes coming in this regard any time soon.

Totally agree, the habit of buying in players for the finals is becoming more and more common... it's also the worst part of the game, imo.

I hope they change it, but I won't hold my breath.