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135029.118 in reply to 135029.117
Date: 7/8/2010 6:13:31 AM
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Transfer prices seem to be pretty low at the moment... there is really still need for (this large amount of) free agents?

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135029.119 in reply to 135029.118
Date: 7/8/2010 11:43:32 AM
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I think that in the end are relevant primarily just wages...

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135029.120 in reply to 135029.118
Date: 7/9/2010 8:15:07 PM
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The transfer prices seem to be free falling. It's not funny at all.

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135029.121 in reply to 135029.120
Date: 7/9/2010 11:55:58 PM
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Well the game has been stuck on 55,000 users for a while now and I imagine that as the weeks tick on the core of longer term users makes up a larger percentage of this number... so with more longer term managers you might assume that more rational long-term decisions are being made and with more mature players hitting the market to undercut the premiums that used to be paid for the best trainees, this causes the squeeze on everyone accept the very top players in the BB-world.

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135029.122 in reply to 135029.121
Date: 7/10/2010 8:49:57 AM
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Hmmm, a lot has changed in the last 2 seasons, i think. 23+ players are cheap and the young ones are too expensive. When i started playing you could get an undeveloped young player with a MVP or a higher potential for a small sum of money and sell him of for a good profit after 3 seasons. lately i feel i need to train a player for 4-5 seasons just to break even with the buying fee. this is more common with the PF/C players, as someone has stated before.

I trained pf/c but their sale value is very low now, and i'm stuck with a high wage players who i can't sell for a decent profit.

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135029.123 in reply to 135029.121
Date: 7/10/2010 5:16:15 PM
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Or maybe(ironic) it's impossible for any team to sustain the best players,so with a chain reaction the price of all the players fall down drammatically...in fact the players sold with the highest prices are the players with the best salary/skill ratio,especially the SF,or only the unique players as some top top top top top level guards

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135029.124 in reply to 135029.123
Date: 7/10/2010 11:54:28 PM
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I think that this is actually not a bad thing. There should not be a stranglehold on the top of the heap. If you have good players, eventually they get old and you have to rebuild. So far we haven't seen anyone have to do that yet, because a top team could always sell their players at profit. Now the numbers are making it such that older players are not as valuable and teams with established star players either have to win or sell. My team has about two more seasons before it is so old the locker room will be showing On Golden Pond after games. I have great players nobody wants to buy them because they are old. Oh well. I will start again and see if I am truly a good manager.

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135029.125 in reply to 135029.124
Date: 7/12/2010 10:21:02 AM
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The fact that the older players has a lower price is a physiological thing of the game,an older player has less years left at his top level,and have a value that drops day by day because who will buy them,will have always less possibilities to sell him when he had to rebuild his team.
But this is something that doesn't have nothing to do with a lack of money,that has made to decrease the prices,due to the fact that incomes/costs balance doesn't allow to save money for a team which wants to be competitive,as in the top leagues,as,in a worse situation,in the lower leagues

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135029.126 in reply to 135029.125
Date: 7/12/2010 9:34:26 PM
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I partly agree. But I would argue that as each season goes by the player pool gets larger meaning more developed players for sale meaning lower prices for all. And, as stated many times by the BBs, their goal is to make teams operate at close to 0 profit. Transfer prices falling is an inidication of this happening.
And my anecdote was more of an effect scenario of this than a reason for it.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 7/12/2010 9:36:05 PM

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