[yajeflow]

my league uses a board that determines the budgets for each team. most of our teams are poorly managed, financially-speaking. we use budgets of around $2.5 million, or so.

let's say that i do not want to use my budgetary surplus. let's say that i buy just a couple of players and have $500K leftover.

now, i could take 'orders' from other teams for players, sign them, then trade them. it would get players on THEIR teams, and as soon as i clear their salary off my books once again, free up the original $500K for me to continually do this until every team has had their fill.

why would i? because for every deal i consummate, i could reap yet another prospect. i could theoretically do this for all teams until their rosters are all set.

am i wrong here? or is this an ingenius circumvention of the bylaws? there is an english saying that goes like this:
"it just ain't cricket"

i think that this applies. it just ain't baseball. at any given time, only about 4 of our 12 teams ever have money to bid upon free agents so far. the other 8 are all out of whack, yet they still want more players and more titles. i know that this would be accepted by those teams, as i would've gladly paid the piper when my team was 2 million in the hole.