If there'd be a way to fix it so it depends what level (top league, II, etc.) I might agree to it, but as it's being suggested now, I couldn't go for this. I'm in D.V, and the idea of someone in my league, or even in D.IV, should I promote, drafting a player with 20k salary in my league would completely discourage me from even trying. Part of the fun in the game, especially in these lower leagues, is in the training of your players so that you won't end up trying your hardest only to go 0-22 in league play. Drafting three guys of 10k+ salary on my way to D.IV would be the sort of thing that makes me wonder why I would bother investing hours of my time into training for the future, and why I would bother investing hours of my time scanning the transfer lists for just the right guy to fill a needed position in my squad, when I can just figure out my lineups this season, wait for the draft, pick up a couple 10k+ salary players and buy the empty positions I need to fill so I can just train game shape all season.
Maybe it would be okay drafting more highly skilled players in the upper divisions (D.I/D.II), but especially at the lower levels, I think this sort of idea would compromise everything that we've come to know about the game, especially when half the D.V teams would be filled with 10k-salaried players within a couple of seasons and make it that much harder on newer teams who're showing up with maybe one decent player out of eighteen, destined to lose to even the bot-teams by that point.
On top of that, it would be another thing closing the gap between the top tier teams and D.IV, V, and VI teams, which would make planning for a National Team strategy change and would possibly lead to a lot deeper bot runs, and if fixing teams' starting rosters by improving players' starting skills to stop that problem would require a change in the setup of the economy to avoid driving new teams into crippling debt from the very start.
However, if this were to be kept for the higher divisions, then one of two things would happen:
1. The market would be even more overrun with higher-salary players, and it would cause more market instability.
2. The distance between top tier teams and lower divisions would widen, and teams that promote would likely struggle more.
So in conclusion, I'm against this idea.
Last edited by Speede at 06/05/2014 15:42:54