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Yes I would agree
Lost in all this is the performance delivered by the trainees in the seasons that they are being trained.
By the end of those seasons while some teams are buying players for playoffs that aren't worth what they're paying for them, the training teams have players worth much more than the salaries each week and those players continue to get better.
Besides, I don't hink I would enjoy this game as much without the Friday training pops.

It's should not be about, training is not profitable. Like said already, training for your own team is profitable. Currently there are too many teams training → overall training value get's cheaper. It's the same with scouting. People were investing in scouting before. Now the investment are lower and you can get a decent trainee even if you draft last. Same with inside player values. There are too many teams training inside players.
If everyone will stop training this minute and go for GS, ST or FT training only, the value of training will go up really quickly. So it's about supply/demand.
I rather have bigger supply (free agents), than wait for 3 seasons before I can even think about getting anything on the TL. I remember the times, when the prices kept skyrocketing and FA's were eventually introduced. It was getting really badly out of hand.

Buying a 19year old at some point, training them for 8-10 weeks, selling him for a medium profit, as it was in the old days, is not exactly what it´s supposed to be either.

With the new importance of "intelligent" training (keeping the wages low, yet making the player useful and maybe special) making profit is not impossible, just more challenging.

I consider "optimized" training and a better use of B-Skills and Tactics the real challenge of the economical development. Instead of just "printing" money, you have to find ways to utilize skills, player material and handle the tasks of managing the teams salaries. Any manager simulation should consist of analysis of a development and finding the correct response. BB is a dynamic simulation, not static. You have to adopt your strategies then..

This is all well and good and I don't think anyone is disagreeing with this, but when you can just tank and buy such players in a fraction of the time it takes to train them then it just isn't as rewarding a strategy as it should be.

The ability to "print money" has just been shifted to another game mechanic and could do with being balanced out.

The high price and low price are wrong too, now too low prices and not relegated to the training cost is contradictory!
Should not let the dead rob the living job, this is contrary to the laws of the market！

I think the FA's are great way to fill teams rosters (salary cap) and are the best way to transfer money out of the game. How many teams are in the minus? Most of the teams playing BB are generating extra money to the game. Sale % reduction does not deal with the money generated.
Currently the prices are pretty stable. If you are making near 100k a week, you can add a player per season. Great all around players are still a lot more valuable.
I don't want to go back to the time where 8-12k salary players demanded 1,5-1,7mil transfer fees. Even as free agents...
I don't tanking in the highest league, but I'm not that sure that those tankers have an easy way back to the top div. Atleast not in the larger countrys. Obviously the salary floor needs to be risen a bit. But I don't see a problem with the training system. Rookies here are not NBA rookies. They can not contribute right away. People are still paying high sums of money for the top rookies. If you are planning to train that player for your own team. That's great, but if you are training him just for sale, you're going to lose money. If you want to make money, train your own draft picks and sell them after a season or 2.

In past few seasons I've seen an "anomaly": You buy a HoF with good skills for 1,5 million. Then if you want profit from training, you have to train him for at least 3 seasons. In the meantime, his salary eats a lot of cash and even if you sell it for 2M, you still lose money long-term.

So a rookie that can become a good player and the same player that became that good via training is worth almost the same. Isn't that an anomaly? I guess that's because what Wolph said: A lot of farm teams are training players for their U21 or NT and then sell them 3-4 seasons later. Because these players are numerous, they drive the prices of good 21 and 22 HoFs down.

I've seen though where the profit can be made: Right after draft, you buy a 4k Perennial allstar/Superstar for 50k or less. After three or four seasons of training he may reach his potential, but he is worth 700k - 1M now. A lot of people care for current skills and not what the player can become.

You are starting to get theatrical again :) Mad fun!

I guess... you are being singled out! :D Like always.