What does that have to do with his payroll? You may be right about his tactics, I have no idea, but do seriously think someone who made 15+ millions (I'm going with less than 1m average per season, but he used to make more than that, so it may well be around 20m actually) in daytrading draftees is better than someone who drops and rebuilds? Maybe that's what you should ask: how much money you need to make with draftees per season. Note that tanking and rebuilding comes with drawbacks because your WR or national ranking largely determines the top end of your gate receipts and losing games will affect that, while swindling unsuspecting managers does not.
In any case D2 may be more profitable than D1 for most teams right now and it's not hard to accumulate cash and assets in D2 and D3. You just need to pay less than $100 in staff and stay at the floor. Once you start stashing millions in youngish players with high TSP and low salary, you will actually easily win games. Then when you have 4 of those and 20 million in the bank (so probably around 35-40 million in assets) promote, upgrade/buy new guys and lay waste to everyone else. It's not rocket science. You probably will have enough money for retooling and will be able to keep going for many seasons. It's boring, it does require some discipline and generally I wouldn't contemplate doing that, but I may actually do this once my Utopia trainees are done just to prove the point.
But yeah, I don't see Darkonza's titles in a much different way than Misagh's: they are 2 faces of the same coin, just 2 different ways to accumulating cash, except one of them has been curtailed and the other hasn't (thanks, Marin, as usual). Winning with a SB team or low salary, yes, it is a different story.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/14/2019 8:33:35 AM