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Players must come from somewhere. … But the players who weren't being trained still don't exist, so the supply of skilled players is diminished and much higher in age, which requires more frequent replacement as skills drop. … We are seeing now what happens when the player pool suffers from years (not seasons) of serial under-training. The cure for that is, naturally, players being trained to replenish the pool.

That's pretty much the same thing I said, only I cut to the chase and say it in fewer words. And the "cure" is to reform training so that there IS enough training going on.

Prices are definitely out of control. I think as a start BBs should start releasing the above 60k salary players to Free agency again.

We are seeing now what happens when the player pool suffers from years (not seasons) of serial under-training. The cure for that is, naturally, players being trained to replenish the pool. Speeding up that process, in my opinion, would be a great move, but that would actually be a case of BB making a massive change in the economy directly.

I think increasing the amount of trainers available would also help without influencing the economy so much directly.

Prices aren't problem. Problem is your financial policy. You input new taxes, that cut earnings. I remember more than 7 y ago prices was high. But players had money for shoping on TL.
Now I'm - 20k weekly. And my player salaries are below salaries border. It's stupid.

I don't think it was very difficult to forsee what we have seen with the market. I am probably talking out of my ass because I don't have access to really data bit:

1) BB user base declining which leads to less players on the market and a decrease in supply of players on the TL. However because of how BB is structured, demand in many aspects of the BB economy is exactly the same. In USA, we don't really have a DV anymore but we still have exactly the same numbers of DIII/DII/DI teams. Prices go up. Not surprising with demand constant and supply decreasing, prices have gone up.

2) You can make all the arguements you want about the percentage of players in free agency vs. rest of the TL, but limiting the supply of players has helped led to the drastic increase in prices.

3) Hoarding tax has created an incentive for people to spend their money or they lose it but with a decreasing pool of players it had lead to higher prices.

4) Increasing promotion bonus once again has increased the amount of money in market but with a decreasing player pool has helped increase player prices.

The only remedy is to increase the supply of players and/or find a way to take money out of econmy. Increasing the supply of players is easy. You get rid of FA limits which will help in the short term and you increase training speed which will help in the long term.

Prices are definitely out of control. I think as a start BBs should start releasing the above 60k salary players to Free agency again.

Probably one of the shorter posts in the thread but one of the most significant. Players of this quality are the ones that are probably most in demand when they appear on the TL. With them missing the demand moves both above and below, to the NT players, and to players in the 40k-60k range. Its attempting to buy those players which is becoming frustrating to many.

Maybe to help increase player supply in the long term, the BBs could make 2 position training as effective as single position training.

That is a good summary of some of the reasons prices have gone out of sight and the trend will continue. It shows the economy is beginning to work as the BB's intend, making training ever more profitable. Or should I say more and more and more and more ...

So who is going to train one position in this scenario?

Nobody. I meant they should replace one position training with two position or maybe allow you to train an inside and and an outside skill every week so you can train guards and bigmen at the same time.