I don't remember referencing the salaries of his players.
I think that is you trying to condenscend me assuming that I thought his team was doing better than yours because his players had better salaries or something. I never said anything about salaries. I don't know why you pack of division IV and V guys think you know everything about buzzerbeater and insist to talk to me like i am a moron, call me names, and just generally go on and on about how correct you are and how your strategies are the best and most dominate in the game.
Let me explain what happened here and then you decide what you want to make of it:
1. Arthur Monay posts about how my salaries are roughly 70k/wk less, which is close to $1M in savings.
2. I point out (to Arthur) that it's easier to just look at the weekly amount and figure that's how much profit per week more he'd need in trading to break even, and point out that just looking at salaries doesn't tell the whole story (staff, arena, etc)
3. You say (to me, response to that post) he hasn't done well trading recently.
4. I say (in response to your post) that it's possible to make money trading, regardless of whether or not he's doing it at the current time, and say that the whole intent of my post, directed to Arthur, was that comparing the salaries doesn't tell the whole story.
Now, with that explanation, if you're offended that I mentioned salaries in the context of the original post in that string that was explicitly about salaries, and thought I meant you brought it up, I apologize. I was responding in the context of that facet of the discussion, and while I thought it was fairly clear what I was talking about at that point, it may not have been.
And with that aside, I know for a fact I've never called you names, called you a moron, or claimed anything about how my strategy is either dominant or absolutely correct. This whole thing started because *YOU* said, among other things:
"Thinking that training is possilbe at your level in the game. This is not really your fault. One would hope this game is set to reward you for training your own players...that really only happens in small nations where they have the finances or established teams taht bought pre created players at around 22. Its just the way they set this game up."
"You are in Division IV dude....either you just started last year or training has not got you anywhere near where daytrading would. Personal results?? Are you kidding? Would you like to see my track record for training?"
So I attempted to point out that training *IS* possible, and it is quite feasible to succeed in V and IV in the USA with a strong focus on training. And while I appreciate that you have a friend here, who appears to have found himself relatively successful as well, this doesn't make you the ultimate expert on this level. I certainly don't presume to lecture people on how to build their teams at higher levels or even say that my way is the only way here; but having lived the V to IV experience personally gives me just a little bit of credibility, okay.
None of you has earned a million in your first season have you? I spend more on my arena my first season than you did on your entire team.
None of us started in II, either. (Well, I did with my original team in season 2, but I logged in once or twice, and did absolutely nothing with it).
How about how far he got in the cup last season? Now there is a team strength indicator. YOu can also look at game ratings.
Except the cup is random draw and different people put different emphasis on it. (I focus on league primarily, personally, and thus am stunningly unsuccessful and not at all concerned). But don't come at me with game ratings. If you want to be offended that (you thought that) I argued about the importance of salaries, especially, putting focus in the game ratings is absurd for the same reason - they provide an incomplete picture