okay so I looked up some rules for you, which were changed seasons ago.
Nowadays players with salaries over 80K will retire directly if their teams went bot (despite the reasons, cheating, inactivities, etc.) The only method to save these players is having NT coaches take them into NT before these teams completely go bot (so the BB god will later sell them regardless of their salaries). Therefore unfortunately players like Starnes that is super solid but not good enough as NT or strong NT candidate will unfortunately have to retire (or if NT staffs were too busy to notice). NT's have their limited numbers of roster changes allowed as well.
Sometimes retired players from bots with high potential and youth (18y/o mostly) will be placed in the market as well, but the safest way is having NT or U21 coaches place them on the roster, like how Dwight Coward put 18yo LeBron Johns (that name though) in NT earlier this season.
Purpose of doing this? IDK. I remember there were a lot of complaints regards to this though.
Last edited by Zenith at 8/3/2017 12:50:47 PM