Not as impressive as Joey Ka, but my USA team is up to ranked 267 in the world using only homegrown players. (Will be quickly falling now though
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And my Utopia team just made it back to D1 again using homegrown players. (With an under 7000 seat arena and no day trading either!) But it'll be a bloodbath this upcoming season. I think i was $300,000 under the salary floor last time.