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I will say one last thing to everybody, including Trainerman who can reply when his ban ends.

Investing in players rather than seats is nothing new. 6 seasons ago my advice would have been absolutely and without doubt to use the money to invest in players. It was called daytrading and you could make several millions per season. That was BY FAR the most profitable investment you could do in this game.

It was so much more profitable that in my first Utopia league with mostly top class managers, including the winner of BBB (I Love Tehran), it was the Bulgarian (or Australian can't remember) D3 daytrader who got promoted. He made millions in a single season just on transactions. Some of the guys I beat in the first Utopia cup were also daytraders. I had to Crunch Time them to win because they could afford an absurdly higher payroll which had cost them a lot more than my own to even purchase.

I think one of the reasons they decided to stop daytrading was the incredible success it showcased in Utopia (pretty much every single daytrader promoted due to much better rosters and larger arenas).

So let's not kid ourselves, other forms of investment can be (and surely were) more profitable than investing in seats. Today training has become more profitable because changes were made to make it that way (it's been several seasons now, people should have seen it coming). It's worth investing in the right trainees as a priority over investing in the arena, both in terms of relatively short term profit and long term, as Iguanadon Joe has explained perfectly.

I don't understand why they have to be separated.

Because you can't spend the same dollar on an arena AND on a trainee. You spend the dollar once. You make a choice. As Lemonshine points out, going balls to the wall to build your arena to the exclusion of other interests is nonsense, total, utter sheer nonsense. Yet some people advocate that, (I think just to cause controversy, since it is such clear nonsense).

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That is why I am telling you the argument has never been "spend 100% of your income on arena".

P.Blue, maybe your argument has not been that, but that is exactly the silly argument some people are making. Silly, isn't it?

Last edited by Mike Franks at 9/13/2015 12:05:15 AM

What if I have $2 dollars, Mike?

The first one you cannot spend on both, you have to make a choice. Same for the second one.

Thank you for a silly question to lighten the tone.

Can we just go with the "find a way to improve your team and your arena" or do we really have to choose the "Spend every dollar on players" vs. "Spend every dollar on arena" debate which nobody seems to be advocating but mostly everyone seems to be arguing against?

Can we just go with the "find a way to improve your team and your arena" ...

Ding ding ding we have a winner!