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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
This would also facilitate a financial system sort of like in European soccer, where trades are rare but buying and selling of players is commonplace. It's my impression that in most of the rest of the world and most other sports trades are uncommon, while purchasing players is the standard method of transfer from one team to another.
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To really do the European soccer (football) system right would also require a fair amount of changes. The economics of the 'open' league system used in Europe is very different from that of the 'closed' league system used in North America.
In spite of such differences, I am trying to think of a system which would allow for either 'open' or 'closed' leagues to operate in OOTP with equal ease.
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Originally Posted by Dr. P.R. Park III
While I favor your ideas, LGO, I cannot favor your tenacious outlook of this revolutionary financial world you imagine. I have waited, and so have others, for this simple addition to the game. I don't see this game getting any better in a lot of areas I desire, which is fine, and unfortunately, I don't see it getting any better drastically in the ways you desire, as well. Instead of implementing a full fledged revolution and revised financial system in-game, it'd be easier to just implement one small thing at a time.
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Oh, I totally understand that point of view. I just tend to think very much in "big picture" mode, and am always thinking a version or two ahead. The piece-by-piece approach is certainly reasonable; my only concern is that the foundation upon which that approach rests is structured so that it allows all possibilities, rather than it inadvertantly limiting what can eventually be done because some future possibilities weren't considered when the foundation was laid. So I'm trying to point out all the considerations that any foundation should take into account.
I ran into that sort of thing when putting together the customizable playoffs proposal. I started off with an initial system, but found it was inadequate to handle certain playoff situations and scenarios I found out about later, so I had to go back and revise the initial structure to account for them.