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So now we train 6 to 9 players and price will go even more down ?

1) Price is relative - if it will go down, it will go down for all users.

2) This rule may be defined on the first round or more. But yes, you will need to pay them anyhow.
It is each user desicion how to use them.

EXACTLY like in the NBA.
This game is about BB-MANAGING.

eBay trading has no limits. Here, the more you trade in a span of 14 weeks, the less you gain.

Every good idea seems to have some people with sarcasm. I think it's a great idea. But they're two completely seperate teams. D league teams can onlytrade with d league teams, real teams can only transfer with real teams. And you can promote players to your team once they're good enough. It's a fantastic idea.

actually this rbings up a good point, on frequency of games. Your question assumes that D-league plays 3 games a week, or same numbers as normal league.

So maybe D-league should only be once a week? Just like a Private league?

In reality, if you have an 18 year old, and you are in the cup and a top league, you probably wont want to train him and as such, you wont keep him.
With a D-league, this would give you an opportunity to train that 18 year old.

It means as an experience BB player and trainer, im given an opportunity to train a young player, without compromising my Div I team.

Other people training their 'star' potential $4k salary 19 year olds in the D-league, will mean that when they sell them, there will be more skill-variety of 20/21 year old players going around.

I havent answered your question, but, I would imagine a scenario whereby the D-league is 3 games a week, would be a bit much.

I think the prices of the "middle class" players is already very low. If you introduce this d-league addition, then this only adds free slower training. This acts as extra income (for high div teams) and will negate the income lower teams would make training 3 players simultaniously to sell to higher leagues after 3 seasons or so.
There is a downside to training (especially in the upper leagues), but I think that it is good. Think about it. If there was a way to train effectivly and win in the higher division (like micronations can), play the cup with full strenght and the league with full strenght with no downsides. It would be a pointless game. The game is about choise. What will you focus on and what are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want.
Currently the lower league teams train the younger years of the player, then they sell them to higher league teams, who continue their training. This gives the lower league teams money to strenghten their teams and keeps higher league teams income lower, with the constant need to replace their veteran (old) players. Sure the micronation divI teams can make huge profits and do not have the problem of cash, but in bigger nations a lot of the teams are keeping their teams near income cap, to remain competitive in the top league.

i agree with everything you said in that response except for one thing.

I actually believe that the prices of middle class players to be too high. (maybe we are talking about different kinds of middle class?)
by middle class, i would define as players who have a salary between $10k and $$20k
and i believe they get sold for too much. AND I also believe that they are not very multi-faceted when it comes to skills. Very hard to find a good backup SF for between $10k and $20k salary. You end up essentially going for a SG or PF.

thats my experience anyways. So i think if the league does come in, prices will come down, but i dont think by that much. BUT we would get the benefit of more variety of skills in 'middle class' players.

This point does concern me though, and you raise a good issue here

This acts as extra income (for high div teams) and will negate the income lower teams would make training 3 players simultaniously to sell to higher leagues after 3 seasons or so.

and the follow on i totally agree with.
so maybe there needs to be a solution to this? A workaround? any ideas? How could we make this work?

Very hard to find a good backup SF for between $10k and $20k salary.

What makes you think, that with this change, everyone instantly starts to train SF's?:) I just don't feel there is the need for any extra free training at the moment. People have been training like idiots for long now (that's why BB's eventually released cross-training, to even out the skills and limit pumping up those 2-3 skills). It's always better to try to train those hard positions yourself. Unless you want to pay 3-6mil for a decent SF, like I did. It's always the best to do the thing few people are doing. If everyone says, draft is crap and I will not invest, you invest 10k a week and pull out profit every season. When everyone starts to put money into scouting, because you are making profit every season. It's your time to stop investing (if you situate high in the league table).
If everyone starts to train SF's from now on. The prices of every other spot will go up in a few seasons and SF prices will drop dramatically.