I think I won our league at the perfect time, right before the teams on your side of the conference all started to have very good teams. My side of the conference has always been pretty weak and I think I was the first team to win DII.1 from my side of the conference since I was there, and I think that was 7 or 8 seasons.
Once you jump to Naismith, you make so much more money and my last 2 seasons you have been guaranteed victories because other teams have gone up with teams good enough to win their league and are not ready for Naismith, so they sell their team off and just try to collect money. My first season in Naismith I finished fifth and this year sixth, but a real limited payroll most of the season. There's a lot of D2 teams that have a higher salary than I do right now, but aren't sitting on as much money. Right now I have about 470k in salary, but am making anywhere up to about 250k a week in profit.
So build a team that can compete in Naismith, try to have cash in case you need a player for the playoff, and have a huge arena so you can really collect some serious cash.
Canada NT Manager