Funny you say you love the great wads of money, because I hate the shortage of money in the league. It al comes to expectations I suppose. I know of at least Razzle having some troubles coming back to this league from ABBL with the drop in income.
I think div II is where you actually have to plan to win games most of the time, and develop a training plan, you can train some very good players in this division, in ABBL they need to be good to start. You can train up good rookies, but you need the time and a good starting 5.
In ABBL training is soooo much harder. Every game is a tactical one, where as in Div II there are some games where you know you will win, so don't have to worry too much about tactics.
The jump from III to II is one that can be managed so you stay up, the jump from II to ABBL is much harder. If I have learnt something, it is pretty much ignore the positions that your players are said to be the best in, and work out how you want to play them and where.
This season I have started to develop that I have 2 different types of SF, one that can play like a frotn court player, and one that can play like a back court player. I swap them depending on what I think I will need against the other team.
With 5 games left I am hoping to finish on top and get the home court advantage in the playoffs, this is a huge advantage I think, especially in the first 2 rounds (I always thought they should play the 1st round best of 1, the 2nd round best of 3, and the final best of 5) but that would take too long in the game.....but the $$$ would be nice :)