Our NT manager has done a great job with the players he has, but I think it's a big ask for him to get the 22-25 year olds with the best owners for their continued development.
Great suggestion. I also like your idea about an u24 or u25 competition, but when it was suggested before people seemed to make a huge dog's dinner of it and made it sound like a mess. Its still at its core, an excellent idea.
There's also been a lot of talk in this thread about training. While relevant, I believe its missing the point. It isn't that people are training players badly. Except in my case perhaps. Or being badly advised. Its that many people with trainees don't do anything with them. I've tried to get them to see the value of them, see my posts in every league's forum last season, but I don't think they're being read.
Zeus can tell you how difficult it is to get people to even realise we're trying to help them.
I'd love to help all those people who want to train someone to find a suitable draftee, but I think we all know they're not numerous. And they're often ludicrously priced.
I do have some thoughts on what we could do if we had a busload of MVPs every season. But until we find a way to persuade people what is basically in their own interests, then we face the same problems we're seeing now.