Chandler, Jones., Butler just to name three. Two of them was quite important i think ;) About one of them was after his injury constantly trade rumours.
Chandler was the only important key here.
Butler had been injured and didn't played in the playoff.
Chandler was not the main players at the team and not the second. [Interestingly you didn't write that about their role in the team]
I didn't say that there are no players replacements at all.
I wrote that in BB-world it comes in rate which is huge comparing to the real world.
Both in quantity and in their role.
In the end, it is not rare to see teams here just buy players seconds before playoff or tunking by selling all their players.
This game in not all about exploiting the TL (especially due to the fact that it is unfair due to its current auction system).
Training, tactics, minutes spreading and others should have at least as big role as TL currently has.