Extremadabra (91534) last year won my league, and i noticed their transfer history. Team plays from 27th season, and never has bought any player - so its has fully homegrown roster. Very impressive to reach EBBL, and i think its worth to mention this interesting fact.
Hi mate, I did but it was pretty incidental (I lost 6/8 games against the other conference) and my team was not the best in the league, even though I played my cards right in the end.
Such is the case this season, where I'm not close to paying the Salary floor even and just can't compete against monster salaries at a reasonable price, which by the way seems to be somehow addressed with the Stamina effect (supposedly, no more 5-player roster with ~200k salaries as a meta). Which I find positive even though I won't help me - The one feature that would give me a hand is that homegrown players had a multiplier because of defending their mother team.
I'll very likely be relegating, having a combination of very old and very young lads at the moment. I'll pick my games and hope for more luck than the starting games, that's certain.