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Most of my thoughts have already been covered:

* Changes should be announced in advance, and preferably a forum discussion as well to come up with additional tweaks to the idea that might not have been thought of.

* If it's going for realism then it's a miss. On the NBA stats page it says there are twelve age 34 players, and it's fair to say none of them are close to their peak. Guys like Draymond, Harden, Butler, Klay, PG are already declining. When you look at NBA players above 34, only about 6/33 are still solid, the rest are barely playable. And that's players still in the league, there will be dozens no longer good enough who are playing abroad or retired.

* Ignoring realism - primes in BB do feel short, so I don't mind finding a way of extending it. But perhaps there was a better way, for example having a slower decline from age 34 onwards. We'll see how it plays out.

Hahaha, I made to the official BB youtube channel!!

Btw, not so long ago the deteriorating age in BB used to be 33 and it changed to 34. I don't remember how much notice was given at that time. Do someone remember?

One other important thing that I don't think anyone has raised. I heard about this before it was announced in the news. That should never happen with any change to the game of any kind.

Anyone knowing in advance of others has an advantage which is patently unfair. This must not happen.

If people in charge can't be trusted to keep things like this to themselves they shouldn't be in charge.

I disagree. Everyone should be able to access the information together. The only way to do that is through the website. I think its fairly obvious not everyone follows BB on social media.

It's season 52, that's correct. (278844.57)

I think that the real motive for this change is getting lost in all of the uproar about the lack of notice.

Increasing the skill drop age to 35 makes every player more valuable. It is a little unintuitive, but I think this will actually cause transfer list prices to go down (or at least cause them to increase at a slower rate). My reasoning is that the supply of good, non-deteriorating players in the entire game will increase with this change, most prominently for D1-caliber players. Long-term, increased supply with constant demand should apply pressure on prices to decrease.

Anecdotally, it feels like the TL has had a lot of price inflation over the last 5+ seasons. Certain player archetypes are going for exorbitant amounts that are hard for most managers to afford. I actually think this change is an easy and elegant way to combat TL price inflation. Just because a change is simple and didn't require much engineering effort does not mean the ramifications weren't thought through and that it won't have a beneficial impact

[Side note: I'm curious if others agree with my perspective that TL price inflation has been rampant the last few seasons. I'd be VERY interested in getting my hands on a dataset that we could use to actually analyze this theory...]