I'd like to disagree with the beasters ability to contend. When your top 5 starting lineup is down 160k to 77k theres just not much you can do as a manager to pull that back. D4 is all about salaries. Down here it doesn't really matter how you manage your tactics as long as you keep GS and salaries high. Beasters and Ash also have about a third of the arena size that Daggers has, meaning that regardless of how hard they try Daggers will always have an income advantage over them since he can fill the full 20k arena size when he gets on a roll.
If Daggers maintains his roster and adds a few more pieces to control Game Shape well, he takes it freely. If he fucks it up then Ash should be good for promo if he can keep that salary with that arena.
2x NBBA Champion: S55, S56. 3x USA Cup Champion: S54, S55, S56. WR for longest home streak ever at 11 in Season 47.