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The transfer market is almost non-existent, I don't really see much value in dicking around with it. It's almost impossible to make any money through training, which makes me wonder if it's even worth having a 3rd trainee, or if it would be cheaper to get rid of him and save on his salary each week?

The most activity on the transfer market seems to be guys buying in players before the finals, good chance for some managers to off-load their massive salary guys.

Overall, the transfer market pretty much sucks!

I balled you for using a pivot table though. :p

how you blokes have so much money?

hahahhaha man do you have something to whinge about everything? :)

transfer market is pretty good, but you need to pick your time on when you want to buy/sell. The transfer market in the last few weeks have been a seller's market for well rounded players imo. A decent player with well rounded secondaries goes for heaps. Monsters with 6 figure salaries arent always the best indicator for a teams strength - the ones that go for cheap usually have a few glaring weaknesses.

cunning linguists analysis was great but only took a snapshot of the last month, so it doesnt tell the whole picture

if you look at my player transfers, i sold my team mid last season, making around $1M+
I basically just spent that money buying up new players, so im at an equilibrium in that space.

Similarly, Vios spent some big dollars buying up pre-playoffs, so the money he got for selling them balances out what he spent buying them in the first place. Although vios will be making a truckload of money tanking now. Im guessing at least 300k per week. Will be interesting to see what happens mid season.

My money says he will buy up and fight for relegation :)

sold my div 3 team :)

yer ill restate it. was only for the last month.

I was actually just trying to highlight how much the new promoted teams and other guys had been buying/selling guys.

Then i get the numbers... DOH... myself and you are the top spenders for the month LOL.

but yes like u said, i did the same as you. sold off two starting 5 mid season last year, and bought replacements the last month. plus another guy because i have two big men injured at the moment.

still its interesting to see - it makes me nervous to know that other teams (like myself) are just sitting on cash, biding their time for the right purchases. the onflow effects of last seasons debacle of a season are still showing this season.

hahah yeah there are lots of people sitting on piles of cash and just biding their time

mad rangas and hadders heroes are pretty lethal i reckon
they have quietly cruised through last season, and will probably do so for the majority of this season on very cheap rosters so they will be making piles of money

i only tanked for half a season last season, and was still able to rake in a good chunk of money, so im thinking those guys would be absolutely killing it!

cant wait to see what happens.. will one person buy an insane roster and bully everyone into submission? or will multiple teams start spending cash and create an "arms" race toward the playoffs?

this season is interesting, no one has made a big move yet. The biggest rosters so far are in the following order: awesome, players, tantrums, south gisborne storm, hopelessly addicted..all on 400k + rosters. What do these guys have in common? All are either newly promoted, or promoted last season! except HA of course.

as a side note in answer to Jacks question, how does eveyrone have so much money.

well thats a good question. but the better question is... who is going to have much money in 5 weeks?

Team TOTAL ? Arena Size Ratio
Vios Violationers $176,355 21050 $8.38
Hadders Heros $257,488 19723 $13.06
West Indies $235,995 16100 $14.66
Raz0rBacks $227,074 13260 $17.12
Mad Rangas $329,264 17025 $19.34
Corio Bay Giants $386,937 20000 $19.35
hopelessly addicted $412,399 20000 $20.62
Cunning Linguists $337,788 16190 $20.86
Moosas Mad Men $310,416 14626 $21.22
TeamAkuma $331,199 15451 $21.44
South Gisborne Storm $413,557 16820 $24.59
Awesome^.- $475,099 19025 $24.97
The Players $426,795 16681 $25.59
Coalcliff Clippers $310,371 12070 $25.71
Geelong Vipers $348,436 13327 $26.15
tannum tantrums $419,460 14578 $28.77

So as you can see, if i use my team as an example, for every seat in my arena, i pay $20.86 in player salaries. The higher the ratio, the worse off. Obviously with Vios tanking he is best off. Same with Hadders.
Awesome have the highest salaried team at the moment in the league, (of course, maybe they are about to offload someone) but they have a big enough arena to compensate for it. Tannum and Vipers ratio's are the highest, mainly due to their arena sizes. So you could say that these teams will have the least amount of money in 5 weeks.

...... but of course, the above statistics assume selling ur arena out at every home game. and we know that a 20000 size arena will never sell out. And the above ratio doesn't take into account seat prices, PR-manager who brings extra people to your games etc etc.

So really, the above stats are totally and utterly useless, and are probably more applicable at demonstrating why statistics can be used to show any situation given the wrong assumptions.

Nice work Coach Regan, I love statistics, useless or not I find them quite interesting all the same.

I wish I were saving $300k per week, but with player salaries, training staff and the money i'm spending on draft unfortunately i'm only around the $250k mark. Also with the big losses, people will lose interest and stop showing up soon. I've tried lowering my costs to counter this, so we'll see how that works out.

ahh yes i forgot about training staff / scouting

i was netting around 300k per week with minimal staff (only have a 20k level 4 trainer which i will give the boot to soon) and no scouting, so that makes sense

still..250k a week...that is......dangerous... :)