The first purchase I made was an attempt to even the playing field. I was ~$675k salary and >9 enthusiasm against his over $1m salary and ~12 enthusiasm. Then I saw that he had a bid on a $314k guy and I intervened, we got into a bidding war, and I won (lost) as per usual. The third one, which spawned the biggest bidding war between us, was just for giggles, which I hope everyone including LPP will also laugh and celebrate to (particularly if I lose). Because this was obviously extremely dumb. Subconsciously I think I wanted to blow my money so it'll speed up my eventual demotion. I want to demote so bad and just train players. It's the only part of the game I like.