I think that if you train your own draftee, it should take longer for the salary to increase. This would be better, becuase then the lower division teams could afford to train players to be great, and not have to sell them immedietly whenhis they start to be good. Also, this would make the lower division leagues more competitive.
What about a 1st division team?
You are probably the most extreme example in the entire BB world. You have been playing since season 2 (an awesome achievement in itself - I am sure much less than 1% of teams have) have kept those wonderful Allstar* players as well as having drafted a ton of trainable players in the more recent years. Some teams are lucky - I am - and draft good rookies all the time, while others seem to get rubbish all the time. One of the guys in my league has been looking for a draft pick to train forever, last season after investing $20,000 a week for the entire season he got 2 benchwarmers and a role player. This season he got a $3,000 star, his best draft pick ever!
What about a 1st division team?Find me a first division team that has 9 of its draft picks playing for it and I'll admit there is a problem.
What if it was only 2? What if they were both NT centers? Should the discount still apply?
Yes I think that if it is our draftee, his salare should be lower even as a NT player
What if it was only 2? What if they were both NT centers? Should the discount still apply?I say yes, but don't forget that in my system you only get a discount if their salary this season is higher than last season, so if their salary in season 15 is $300,000 and in season 14 it was $300,000 they get a massive discount of...nothing.
Yes but now you are talking about such a tiny minority of teams. There are how many teams in the USA? 3,500? And I imagine less than 12 actually have a player on the senior national team. I doubt all 12 actually drafted the guy. I know a player who has his own draft pick in the Australian senior team and he gets crazy merchandising. So yes there is already a huge bonus for those lucky few teams but I am a little more concerned with helping the other 3,500.
There is already an incentive in place to train draft picks, it's called merchandise.