Hello,
There is a few things that new players should know about this game.
Firstly, the training process for the most part is not profitable. If you make niche players in the mid-value range using discount staff and trainees you can make profit, and some have shown this. The vast majority of the top-end players and the players that you will ready need at the upper levels are farmed. These players are made by teams that do not care about success. Sometimes they are old teams that have a lot of money in the bank. Basically the cost of buying players on the market is cheaper than the training cost. By a large margin.
With a large volume of FAs still constantly flooding into the game, and users still leaving more than they are joining, prices at all levels drop, pushing the cost to purchase from the list under the exorbitant training costs for staffs and staff bids.
The #1 key to success in this game is being able to sign on and make bids on the last 3 minutes of actions at any time of day any day of the week. The users who can and do do this are the most successful and dominant in BB hands down. It's not about strategies (you can just run LI, even if they predict you, if you have about the same or better players your LI will still win) and the minor details of Arena prices, enth. management, GS management etc. are pretty simple. New staff have been added to this game, at veteran (not new) player request to make it even easier provided you can sign on to buy those staff at cheap prices any given time of day any given day of the week. If you don't train then it is even easier to manage your team and rack up the most wins etc. with good GS and enth. as you go.
The purpose of having us sign on at any random hour of day for 3 minutes of an auction is to feed us advertisements so that the site can survive. Rather than shoot for more users the staff have decided their game will do best to do whatever it can do to trick users to sign on as often as possible and click through advertisements while bid-warring.
I heard there is a god of decency that is hell-bent on changing the name of this game from buzzer-beater to bid-war paradise but that is just fantasy.
So good luck with your bid wars everyone. And take this advice about this bid-wars-
If other people are bidding against you in the 11th hour you've already lost. The bid-wars that you win are the ones where there are few users on and luckily none were interested in that player you wanted so you were the only bid in that last 10 minutes or so and you snaked the player at super cheap below market. That is what bid-warring is about. IF you bid like crazy up above market value- then you are losing the game, because getting discounts on players is the biggest most lucrative advantage this game has to offer since everything else is so straight forward and cookie cutter.