*The Economics of the NSFL

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I'd say I agree with everything you just posted except for this part.  If a player isn't getting paid much, but still prefers to remain on that team rather than seek a bigger contract somewhere else, then that isn't a bot issue, but more a parity issue.  I think raising minimums and adding some type of scaling rule (multiple ways to go about it) would offset this a bit, requiring players to get paid closer to what they are worth.

But lowering the cost of bots and/or increasing cap space would only hurt teams that are already having difficulty recruiting talent in FA.

I think it's a problem if you know that contract money could be spent on your players getting equipment or training they otherwise are not going to do media to get (not everyone is a max earner) and you as a GM still make the call to drop the money on more expensive and less efficient bots. You can win it all with cheap bots if you have the right pieces around them. But hey that's their call on how they think they can win.