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Hi,
I've promoted to div I this season and although I thought I was going to end up either 7th or 8th, surprisingly mt team is doing a great job and I'm currently 2nd place in my conference.
So my problem is whether to give all my effort and try to stay in the 2nd place (if I manage well, this should be possible) or just lose purposely and end up 5th or 6th in order to get a higher pick in the draft. So far in the draft, I've got 2 players who I think are great, but if I were to give all my effort and end up 2nd, I might not get those 2. On the other hand, if I purposely lose games and end up 5th or 6th, then I have a higher chance of getting one of those. Currently I'm training guards and i have one 18 year old PG, 21 year old PG and 19 year old SG but since my oldest main trainee will be 22 year old next season, which might slow down the rate of training, I'm thinking of getting rid of him and replacing with a young trainee from the draft. But i'm little confused as to whether which choice would be better.
So any opinion and help on this would be appreciated.

I'm amazed that a manager as slick as you is thinking about tanking games for the sake of a better draft position! Seriously, winning games brings in more revenue since you can sell more tickets at homes games and/or raise ticket prices. More money means you can buy a better player from the TL to keep up your winning ways. Oh, and winning is usually a pretty important objective in this game. You don't need prospects at this point, and the draft can be very unpredictable anyway. I don't think there's much of a question here. Just win.

I think that the draft is super ovarrated.

Right, so it looks like winning is the way to go. One of the things that I've noticed is that other teams in my league are seeling their arena seats for quite good price and are successful, however when I set the same price, it was clear that the attendence was less. Will this gradually increase later on? Does this happen because this is my first season in div I?

Perhaps they have a better pr manager + winning influences fan survey a lot -> more attendance.

hmm well I have level 3 PR-manager. perhaps I should get a level 4 PR-manager. Not sure if it's gonna make a difference though.