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Can't BB cut down on players being listed on the TL that obviously aren't intended to be sold? Like, why are $1k scrubs even allowed to be listed for over $70 million? (Hypothetically, even if a team had $70 million to waste, it wouldn't be a valid sale). Stop cluttering up the TL with that junk!

Suggestion:
How about this... no player making under $1k can be listed for more than $100k. Allow people to bid over that if they want, but cap the amount of money the selling team gets. (So if a team had a final bid of $300k... a max of $100k goes to the seller, & the other $200k is taken directly by BB).

Yeah, this may not be hugely important in the grand scheme of things... but it would be incredibly simple to implement. I mean, who would be opposed to it? Teams that want to launder money with scrubs? (or have already done so in the past). You'd still be allowed to bid as much as you want, so no harm to the free market. There is no reason a team should profit over $100k on a $1k scrub, and no one can argue that in good faith.

(really, the amount should be capped far below $100k, but something is better than nothing).

I personally don't mind and don't see it as a problem. By narrowing down searches in the TL you don't even have to look at those massively overpriced TL players. If it is for the help of cheating, I don't see many cheaters bidding on 1k players (generally it is the more 4k-9k players). I guess there is really no argument against it, I just don't think it is really necessary.

I get that many people won't care, but it's ultra simple to implement & doesn't harm honest teams.

Actually I've seen a number of $1k scrubs get resold for big money in the past. Some even close to $200k IIRC. Once you're dealing with players who have actual skill it gets harder to determine what's fair. So I stuck to $1k & below guys since no real argument can be make against it.

Anyway, the TL is for the sale of players, right? And according to the game manual, you can get banned for transfers way above market rates. So these crazy listings shouldn't even be allowed in the first place? Gotcha, game manual.

(The same teams listing the same guys over & over again gets annoying too... yeah, i saw that he sucks the first 50 times he was listed for $99 million. those players aren't even rare anymore. now either sell him or don't.

For stop cheating I would recommend a salary*10 maximum starting price and a maximum of 125% of the current price bid each time. If somebody wanted to cheat seriously he should put 5-10-20 consecutive bids which is easy to detect.

For stop cheating I would recommend a salary*10 maximum starting price and a maximum of 125% of the current price bid each time. If somebody wanted to cheat seriously he should put 5-10-20 consecutive bids which is easy to detect.

If it was a proposal to stop cheating, I'd personally advocate that the starting price on players can't be more than half the purchase price of the player until he's been on the roster for 15 weeks. This doesn't really seem to be the thread to discuss that though - this is more just a special case of trying to remove some really stupid transfer listings.

Well, it's kind of a hybrid thread. So no harm discussing it here.
I was just going after something fairly narrow & super-obvious so that no one could argue against it