Yeah with the new salary cap I would NEVER spend that much money on any player at all. The Lightning can't have a player worth more than +75k a week so not many player will even be worth it. Which leads me to another point that's been irking me for a while now, and this is the perfect opportunity to say something. In the past few seasons I've been seeing managers drop the big bucks for players that simply aren't worth it. Like +200k for a guy who's salary is something like 18k? I can spend the same amount and pick up a Hall of Famer that's assured League mvp. You could've spent half a million on three SF's of the same skillset. If you're gonna drop 300,000-500,000 it better be on a super young guy you're planning to build you're team around, and I mean, revolves around this guy. Not because you need a little extra push going through a series, or because you're looking to add some more depth, This guy needs to be your primary priority.
Like this season alone I've seen you big 8 guys drop some explosive numbers on player acquisitions, yet you don't feel competitive enough against the great 8? Yo, I'm still going through some financial trouble that's been carried over from season 23, but if I had money to spend like that, I'd be so long gone by now. There's a sort finesse and coyness that goes into player signings. Like I'll take it back to the Wildbacks acquisition of Shunta, that was the first good trade I've seen gone down since Kirilinko a few seasons back. Personally, at age 34, I think you could've gotten the same player for 100k less, but all and all a solid deal. Here's the thing though, you're backcourt was already strong, If you had snagged a 31k salary in the frontcourt working in tandem with your sg (guess this doesn't really apply right now that he's injured though). I guarantee you'd be the strongest team in the league, right now, hands down. A PF or C worth 31k a week with a 23k sg? And role players that are producing double-doubles???? FORGET ABOUT IT!!! You'd be macking, two guards worth +20k and the rest of you're team at an average of 1-2k isn't good. Or instead of going all out on one player for close to 400k, you could've gotten like 3 guys around 10-15k that would've added contention depth to your squad. Remember, you don't have to be the best in the league to earn promotion, you just have to be the best in your conference, as the two finalists automatically get promoted, the playoff final is really just to see who get's promoted higher, which, personally, I would want to lose anyway just to get the lower seed. In the last 4 seasons, 3 League.16 champions have either been demoted, or finished in the bottom 3 spots of their respect conferences, with last years champions currently in 8th place making it 4/4. And let me tell you, if those guys were to come back, they'd each have perfect seasons, as all their competition have been promoted as well. However, the runner ups have been placing mid-table, even entering play-offs on occasion. So I think it would be smart to blow the finals, here's why, if you get promoted to high League IV then you butch it and get demoted again, you're ending up in like V.40's, but it might be full of competative managers all looking for promotion just like V.16 so you end up being stuck there for another couple seasons. However, if you tank the finals, you get promoted to say, IV 46 instead of IV 19 like the champion would have. This allows you to continue to build your franchise while your current squad should have enough depth to keep you out of relegation.
Last edited by Chris Ryane at 1/27/2014 3:55:23 AM