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"The manager is doing everything possible to improve the club" depends mostly on how much cash you have lying around in the coffers.

Interesting. I suppose I will be able to test this out in the next few weeks. So how much cash before you start to notice something here? With 3.5 million I am still sitting on 5 balls.

I dont think the tax idea is OK .
I didnt understand what sombody wrote before few posts .
But If ill try to sell low player , Like very bed , that gets 2000 E. Week . No body will buy it , but ill try . then maybe tax for players how wont been bought , but the starting price is higher then what the player worth , what writes down there ... in the money XD there somthing over there that said how much the player worth ./

Now if the real issue is that some teams have the cash reserves to buy really expensive players and other teams don't, that's a different issue altogether,

To me this seems like a pretty logical thing to happen in a manager game like BB. It should work like this: start with crappy players, make long term plans to build and train better players, sell them for a profit, use the money to improve your team and buy better trainees, rinse and repeat. Then, once you are sitting on a nice enough cash reserve, make your run for the top. Burn out cash reserves, demote back down, start over.

The problem is that salaries in BB have not yet reached the point where teams have to burn out their cash reserves and in most leagues you can sit around and continue to make nice profits. The changes to the salary structure should provide one solution, I hope.

I understand your points and all I can say is we will see next season if the increased salaries will have the impact that they should: not just on the transfer market but also on profits.

This is what I expect: players with 500K+ salary should be relatively plentiful and affordable on the transfer market next season. Any division I team will be able to pick one of these guys up with relatively low up front costs. However, given that the break even point, salary wise, for a division I team is somewhere between 650K-800K in salaries, getting one of those players pretty much means you are either A) bleeding red or have very little talent to surround him with.

Or take my team as an example. I currently make a 350-400K profit per week. Next season I expect that will come down to the neighbourhood of 275K, without even making a significant improvement to my team (besides training). Then again, I also want to add a star player or two to my team. If I am not careful, I could be just barely breaking even. And I do not even expect to add a player with a salary of more than 125K.

Finally - if a team is able to coast in his division and make nice profits without threat of demotion, that's a failure of the managers who are not pushing him plus a compliment to his astute financial abilities. It is not a failure of the economic system.



Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 2/22/2010 2:58:26 PM

I also think that the most successful teams in the future will not be teams who buy hall of fame players and turn them into 500K monsters. The most successful teams will be those who develop multi-skilled players with salaries of 150K or less (think 9x sensational, 8x tremendous, etc).

However, that kind of player takes a lot of time to train. Hence a lot of long term planning is needed. ;-)