Perhaps a way to incetivise veterans to part with their money is the ability to stave off regression. Each year at the point of regression, users could have the option to pay $10m to push back their regression % to whatever the value is one season earlier. So for example, instead of regressing 20% in their 7th season, a player could pay $10m to avoid it. Then in their 8th season, they could pay another $10 million to regress by 20% instead of 25%.
This would allow very wealthy players to keep their players stronger for longer, and likely push back retirement by a season, but at the cost of $60-70m or so, potentially helping with a HoF push. This would be a low impact way to take a significant amount of money out of the economy from the top earners.
This would allow very wealthy players to keep their players stronger for longer, and likely push back retirement by a season, but at the cost of $60-70m or so, potentially helping with a HoF push. This would be a low impact way to take a significant amount of money out of the economy from the top earners.