yer the ASB is my guess at when peeps will do this so it is quite possibly a myth.
but my reasoning is thus.
a) Post ASB, everyone has offloaded players from their cup runs, so suddenly the market has a slight abundance of players being sold off.
b) People look at the schedule, and its near the time where they are about to start playing teams from their own conference again, and realise that perhaps they need to be winning their first 2-3 games of the '2nd round of inter-conference' games, in order finish ahead of those teams.
d) I think 1 GS update would get ur guy back to Respectable. That means playing him in your first final with Resp GS at best. (I think that my calc is correct.
e) HCA is under-rated.
f) I also believe that people see the ASB as a bit of a motivation to improve their rosters. kinda of a 'What? My guy didnt make the all=star team? Right thats it, sell - buy
anyways. just my 2 cents.
so if u are going to gun for HCA, you do it immediately following ASB.