sometimes your trainee just gets that good
u gotta keep them :O
big men get to 100K easily
i guess its the 150K+ players where u have to avoid taking
i am 70K below salary level of Clogs
i am one man short of a 8 player rotation
i dont know if u need to go 10 men deep with good stamina on your players
Well, if it makes you feel any better, your top five salaries are about 45k more than mine.
On the 10 deep, I actually prefer 11 when possible, but that's kind of a luxury. I ideally would have a backup for every position that I feel comfortable starting in case of injury or for certain tactics, and then an 11th guy that can fill in at least somewhat as a depth backup. I've always felt that if you have a 7 man rotation and a guy you're relying on for 80 minutes a week gets a 4 week injury, you're screwed for those four weeks plus the couple it takes for the GS to recover (unless you're training GS, at which point you're already on a degenerative team cycle anyhow). With a 10 man rotation, you can still have a pretty strong lineup with the 9 remaining guys and still have depth.
I think more than the salary of the players is that you have to have the right players. All 100k players are not created equal, for sure. To use an example from our league, Smeall on smallfries is being fixed up to be one hell of an all-around player. While I gave Isaiah some ribbing in the past about training all the expensive skills first, I credit him for having the tenacity to stick with paying the guy's salary to play him out of position to finish off his skills. That's a player that's going to be playing at a level far better than his salary might otherwise indicate. In contrast, the old-model U21 three-skilled donkey big man is the type that's always going to play below what his salary is worth, just because the amount of salary paid to go up those last few levels in those three skills is not equivalent to the improvement in the game, and the lack of secondary skills is killer. I don't know if we have anyone with those types of players any longer anyway.
Those of us who were here a few seasons back might remember Delta 9's team when he promoted. That may have been one of the finest examples of a team filled with players who outperformed their salaries, and by the end, he also had higher salaries in total than most of or all of the rest of the league. Needless to say, other than maybe Pappy, none of us were really even speed bumps to him at that point.