It's difficult to find a balanced way between realistic management functions and a fast sportgame, in my opinion. I'm from germany and I know how many options and possibilities can be found in sportgames (germans like to simulate

). And I won't prefer features like training schedules, player motivation etc. But I would be happy about advanced trades (draft rights) and more realistic cpu-player-statistics (more playtime for good 6th-men).
The trade-system for itself is not that horrible to me. I know, that I can exploit it but I won't. I also know, that you can take a look into the next season to check out player progress and I know other cheats. But it's up to me to use them or to play a challenging franchise. And that's ok so far
Mahoney_jr
PS: Payton and Malone showed, that it's not very unreal to sign for minimum salary at the start of a season, by the way

I know, in our franchise modus it will happen too often but it can happen. Success >>> $$$
