Hey man! You have pointed to the right direction. The BB-God should stop the tanking, not the tankers! The current environment, as it is now, does 2 terrible things to the competition:
A) Punishes the teams who want to compete by
1) Training out of position - In order to build-up a valuable player, you have to train him a lot out of position, which means that your team is much less competitive while playing for example with a guard as a center.
2) Training young players - no matter what position, but playing 48 mins in a match is the best way to train, as you can fully train 3 or 5-6 players (1-2 position training). That means, that if you want to train 3 youngsters 1 position, you will weaken your team in EACH game.
3) Limiting the weekly minutes to maintain the GS - so unless you have a squad with 9-10 appropriate players, you cannot compete both in the league and the cup, so you are forced to throw one game in the week.
4) Spending a lot of money on salary and buying players in order to be competitive - much more than the difference between the total income of a winning team and a losing one.
5) Late draft pick.
6) Allowing other teams in the league to strengthen their squad drastically right before the playoffs.
B) Adores the non-competitive teams by
1) Free non-limited training with no obligations
2) Gaining money even by losing all the games, as no salaries have to be paid above the floor limit
3) #1 or 2 draft pick
4) Strengthening the squad right before playoff in order to keep the team in the league or even clinch to playoff and win the league.
I guess you understand why I chose to be non-competitive this season. You, and many others, may still disagree, but this attitude absolutely has the legitimacy under the current conditions. Like many others, I also dislike this situation, and the fact that I chose to fit it in order to try and build the team of my dreams does not mean that I'm satisfied with it. I wish that the teams which compete and win, or at least not lose by 50+ each game, Will gain much more benefit than now. On the other hand, I also wish that holding teams out of a competition will never be worth it. There are lots of things that can be done in order to change this negative balance described above, and I assure you that once it is really changed, All these negative issues will disappear.
Until then, the community will be divided into those who prefer to compete and suffer, like me in the previous 5-6 seasons, and those who prefer to get advantage of the current situation and develop their teams the non-conventional, but very efficient way, like me this season. I wish I could combine those 2 attitudes, but I simply can't.