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Here's several ideas that I think would make the transfer list / bidding wars more fair and competitive ...
1.) Re-adjusted salaries based upon salary & winning bid amount, this seems to me to be the fairest way to incorporate free enterprise and somewhat stabilize the games economic balance ... here's a simple formula that might do the trick:
(current salary) * ((winning bid - current salary) / 20000) ... here's the formula in action ... current salary = $ 3359 ... winning bid = $ 250,000 ... (3359) * ((250000 - 3359) / 20000) = ... (3359) * (12.33205) = $ 41,423 re-adjusted salary ... you can see that this would impact a team's ongoing weekly economic structure and be self-policing to the point where an owner will not be able to throw away millions on there entire team !!!

*** this only applies to winning bids over $ 20,000

2.) Limit the amount of players each team can bid on each day to ( 3 ) ... in the real world player/agent negotiations like this take time so this is realistic ... this also forces a gm/coach to study the candidates and only target the ones he/she are really interested in and not blanket cover bunches of players !!!

3.) Instead of the entire bid deadline consisting of open bidding ... only allow open bidding until the last ( 5 ) minutes ... in the last ( 5 ) minutes anyone can submit ( 1 ) sealed bid and the bidding is closed at the appropriate deadline and the highest bid gets the player at his re-adjusted salary ... this would eliminate the lunacy where bidding remains open sometimes 30+ minutes past the deadline and also would require more strategy in regards to Final Bid Size !!! one note, the amount of sealed bids that exist per player should be noted !! ie ... Player-A open bid max $30,000 ... ( 3 ) sealed bids closes 9:30.08 am.

I like that part about salary cause yes that would be more realistic and in this way lvl 20 players won`t become just one game players and all ways would have team... but in this we should add contract time (x seasons) cause otherwise you`ll train player and his wage won`t rise... but I think this would be really difficult to create such a market...

I agree that contracts and incremental wage rises would also be a nice realistic touch, there's alot of ways to do that, unfortunately first you have to undo some of the economic in-balance that exists now ... this problem surfaced in Mike Wallace's Simulated Horseracing online game several years after it began and he attacjked it with limits and cap limits etc ... my ideas allow the market system to work itself out ... I think that as the salaries increase there will be a leveling between what the market will bear and what owners are willing to pay. Unfortunately there's no simple one-step fix all solution for economic balance, otherwise the countries we're from wouldn't be in the real life economic mess they're always in !! LOL ;-)) thanks for the input ...

Here's several ideas that I think would make the transfer list / bidding wars more fair and competitive ...
1.) Re-adjusted salaries based upon salary & winning bid amount, this seems to me to be the fairest way to incorporate free enterprise and somewhat stabilize the games economic balance ... here's a simple formula that might do the trick:
(current salary) * ((winning bid - current salary) / 20000) ... here's the formula in action ... current salary = $ 3359 ... winning bid = $ 250,000 ... (3359) * ((250000 - 3359) / 20000) = ... (3359) * (12.33205) = $ 41,423 re-adjusted salary ... you can see that this would impact a team's ongoing weekly economic structure and be self-policing to the point where an owner will not be able to throw away millions on there entire team !!!

*** this only applies to winning bids over $ 20,000

You're joking on this, right? Such a system would kill the transfer market stone dead if it was implemented with the formula you suggest.

I don't think I indicated I was joking, if this type system were implemented do you really think owners would be thowing around $ 250,000 to $1,500,000 bids indescriminately like they do now, I seriously doubt it ... the idea is to put thought and strategy and competitiveness into the bidding proces ... Unfortunately, the entire economic system would probably have to be overhauled and tweaked for balance, no matter what fixes would be put into place. In any event, these were my thoughts (suggestions), I do believe that's the title of this forum, whatever is or isn't done balancing an economic system to be challenging and fair to all is difficult and will take alot of good ideas !!