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And there are lots of other factors, if you lose games, you'll make less money than if you win, sometimes you have to sell a player for less than planned or buy one for more than you intended first, your best player can get injured and it will cost you games. There are very unfair ones, you play away on saturdays or you are seeded in the schedule rotation after your league's strongest team against whom everyone ties and during the whole season, you'll face teams that have tied the game before. And so on...
Because of all this factors, you need a financial safety margin. You can choose to reduce it, it's sometimes wise but then if you fail, you need a plan to recoup like selling a player. Some don't have a safety plan...

But this is just a deflection, you want to maximize what you can't completely maximize, maybe it's the root for your frustration. How much do you make from the cup ? 150k this season, 250k last season, 0k the season before.
Your player's wages, approx 240k. Your arena receipt, approx 175k reg season.
If winning 3 or 4 cup games is a decisive factor for your finances, you are taking too many risks... maybe.

5th/8th, zero income during the PO + the two losing teams in the first PO game, close to zero income, if I were to lose my first PO game at your arena, I would be thrilled with the 75k you'd share with me but it wouldn't cover half my players and staff wages.

So 4 out of 8 teams in one conference, 8 out of 16 teams in one league, half the teams in BB get no income or close to no income during the PO, do you realise that ?
Making place 3-5 more attractive is a real issue but don't base your argument on the fact it is a general problem to pay for the salaries during this period. It's a problem for those who have created the problem.

So 4 out of 8 teams in one conference, 8 out of 16 teams in one league, half the teams in BB get no income or close to no income during the PO, do you realise that ?
Making place 3-5 more attractive is a real issue but don't base your argument on the fact it is a general problem to pay for the salaries during this period. It's a problem for those who have created the problem.

Yes,this is way the actual sytem has strong lacks,and there are teams that at a certain point of the season,start to tank to reach lower positions,so distorting the competition and affecting also the other teams,that depending on their schedule can find a team at the full strenght,or a team with lucky fan,bench warmers and young trainees

Improve the incomes for these teams,avoid these distorsion,and generally help a little bit the economy,so helping to fight the actual deflaction of the market,because if a team of II division lose 800k-1M in only two weeks,this team can't use these money in the market

just to throw a spanner in the works i know of a team that aimed for 5th rather than 6th then sold all his players, sacked all of his staff with the last week of the season still to go and the position locked up and now plans to have close to 0 costs for the next 4 weeks - that is a saving of more than a million and they were able to sell their players at a premium before the trade deadline

A. I think a pretty easy fix is for the 5th place finishers to play a 3 game series with each other for a small prize, perhaps one weeks worth of tv contract or merchandise or something. Or a scaling amount depending on div.

B. another option is that the regulation series does not generate arena money, that way the teams fighting to stay dont gain an advantage.

C. make a bracket for the bottom 8 teams, and run it just like the playoffs. the first round losers get demoted.

D. instead of having a relegation game, the bottom 4 teams automaticly get demoted.

E. relegation games are 1 game instead of 3.

just to throw a spanner in the works i know of a team that aimed for 5th rather than 6th then sold all his players, sacked all of his staff with the last week of the season still to go and the position locked up and now plans to have close to 0 costs for the next 4 weeks - that is a saving of more than a million and they were able to sell their players at a premium before the trade deadline

In a lower level league this tactic could be godd,but if you play at higher level,it's often difficult find on the market the players with the salary/perfomance ratio that you need for playing your league next season,you take a lot of risk before while you're searching the right player you can lose many games in the next season,so losing other money

just to throw a spanner in the works i know of a team that aimed for 5th rather than 6th then sold all his players, sacked all of his staff with the last week of the season still to go and the position locked up and now plans to have close to 0 costs for the next 4 weeks - that is a saving of more than a million and they were able to sell their players at a premium before the trade deadline

In a lower level league this tactic could be godd,but if you play at higher level,it's often difficult find on the market the players with the salary/perfomance ratio that you need for playing your league next season,you take a lot of risk before while you're searching the right player you can lose many games in the next season,so losing other money

#in addition i hope this won't become the most have strategie for this place, and when lot of people do it it will also become a very cheap transfer period and very expensiv to buy them back at the beginning of the season.