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What you seem to be saying with your RL analogy is that any team in division III or lower should sell NT caliber players to teams in higher divisions. Right?

Yes, but to a point. At some point the very best players should end up in the highest divisions since that's what happens in real life. Otherwise what's the point of competition, or having a sports "simulation"?

It's up to the manager to hold onto a player or not, even if they choose to hold onto a very expensive player to the detriment of their own club. A manager's goal should be to win and promote, not have the best player(s) in the world.

Please don't infer this as meaning that I believe the best players should be given to the top teams or that top teams should be entrenched at the top. Movement between divisions shouldn't be reliant on having one amazingly skilled player over having a depth of good players.

Please don't infer this as meaning that I believe the best players should be given to the top teams

I think I did, and I apologise. My original post in this thread (4865.21) was in response to BB-Mark saying that in a season or so all national team players will be affordable exclusively to top level teams.

It's up to the manager to hold onto a player or not, even if they choose to hold onto a very expensive player to the detriment of their own club. A manager's goal should be to win and promote, not have the best player(s) in the world.
or that top teams should be entrenched at the top. Movement between divisions shouldn't be reliant on having one amazingly skilled player over having a depth of good players.

I completely agree with this. However, training being set up the way it is currently, it is awfully hard to train a good, multi-skilled SF without also training some other members of your team (particularly in skills such as driving, rebounding, and jump shot). I also doubt most managers would bother to train only one position (and a backup) for very long. [I hate to bring up hattrick references, but less than 7% of managers train keepers simply because it doesn't improve enough of your team at once.]

I truly hope it is at least 4 seasons before all the NT players are mired in the top two divisions. I'd also like to see U21 teams come about, if for no other reason than to give lower division managers a taste of the NT experience.

I think I did, and I apologise

No apology necessary, just clarifying the statement as it'd be easy to infer that, esp coming from an NBBA team.

Also, a very good player could come out of a regular mutli player system and now even more so since they'll be doubling young player training.

Most of my concerns with making it worthwhile to win and promote are due to experiences in hattrick. Long term, it seems better to sit it out in lower divisions than to aim for DIII and above.

Also, a very good player could come out of a regular mutli player system and now even more so since they'll be doubling young player training.

That was part of my point; that most teams will use a multi-player training system, even when training NT players, as more players can be trained and more of the team improves at once. Training a single position seems completely counter-productive in anything but short-term applications.

Most of my concerns with making it worthwhile to win and promote are due to experiences in hattrick. Long term, it seems better to sit it out in lower divisions than to aim for DIII and above.

I agree that the HT system is flawed, but it seems BB has done a great job of making promotion a better option than squatting in a low division and attempting a long cup run. We should see in a few seasons how it's working.