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I think your one of the teams i have seen in a long time that has done best in such a short time. Keep it up and your sure to promote soon. The best thing is that you seem to understand the importance of a well built stadium.
In my series i have a salary, staff and scouting at average. Merch is above average as i have own developed players and also a NT player that i drafted and trained. But then my arena is what makes the big difference and the thing that keeps me 120k above league average for net income every week.

Absolutely spot on. It's always easier to put money into the arena while you're able to compete with relatively lower expenses than it is to try to add it when you're scraping against higher competition. Likewise, the sooner a seat is constructed, the sooner you can get money from fans buying it - and whether you build it today or ten seasons from now (assuming no BB rule changes), it costs you the same price. There are far too many people focusing on buying/training expensive players to get out of the lower levels and far too few who are ensuring that their club has the infrastructure needed to compete as they move up. Building up the arena and winning, though, is a very good sign indeed.

Last edited by GM-hrudey at 6/27/2012 3:52:26 PM

*update*

At first I proceeded along like I said a couple posts up, making some upgrades at the perimeter and keeping a large weekly surplus. But then over the course of a couple weeks a number of things happened:

-I realized I was very unlikely to win my league with a slightly upgraded version of my roster.
-I decided to list some of my other players for prices that I though higher than replacing them. To my surprise I made a number of sales which netted me a good profit over buying prices some months previous.
-I realized my biggest strength so far in this game has been finding good value on the transfer list and making money on reselling players, and the more often I bought/sold the more often I would be utilizing this.

Combine these with the fact that the top teams in my league were all very outside oriented on both sides of the ball, and I decided to completely remake my team into a look inside team before the playoffs.

I ended up turning over my whole roster about 1.5 times because of some indecision at the start, and I also made some mistakes selling a few players with no minimum price, but besides that I think it worked out. I went from being ~10 point underdogs to the two best teams to beating both by 35+ in the playoffs. I also was able to spend an extra ~450k on my stadium.

I am curious how people think my new roster would perform at D3? Here is an example game: (49328891) (played at high gs/enthus/effort).