I’ve patiently survived five seasons up here without getting embarrassed, but my team’s getting older and the red side is not going to get easy anytime soon. Every season it seems they change the game in some way that hurts me, as if the GMs see me making the playoffs with a ridiculously low wage bill and scratch their Fu Manchus deviously and say “He cannot be allowed to get away with this. The other's will get ideas. Release the electric crocodiles…” This year I was hoping to coast with a young, cheap team, but now they make the 5th place team play a relegation playoff. That may be a sign it’s time to rebuild. If you try to do two things at once (get better and stay up, let’s say just as a random example), you’re liable to fail at both.
On the other hand, with my pluck, ingenuity, and good-old-fashioned stick-to-iteveness, I feel like I could accomplish two things simultaneously -- like get worse and get relegated, as another example pulled entirely from thin air.
Good Luck, everybody.