The other topic that your guys are hitting on is a tough one . . . the Studs & Scrubs strategy vs. Stud & Subs strategy. Again, there are a lot of considerations that go into what is 'right' for any particular team (current payroll, current cash, what could player bring to the team, training, level of doctor, and so on).
When I made my roster changes last week, here is what I was thinking (part of it is relevant to this topic). Looking at my roster, I was at a point that I needed to either continue training guards, or shift to training bigs. If guards, then I would have sold Weltmann and Jones and probably picked up about $1M Going that way, I would have used the cash to get 1 or 2 bigs that were good enough to get me at least through the next 3 seasons without training them at all. Gruttadauria is great, and Dunn and Rangelov are incredible backups . . . but they are 32, 30 and 34. I would need 2 players to come into the lineup as they start to lose skill points. If I would have done that, I would then have focused exclusively on Subasi for the next two seasons. The problem with that plan would have been that Del Real and Santamarina were great offensive players . . . but they were not strong enough defensively to help in the next couple seasons.
I decided that focusing on bigs makes a lot more sense, because I knew I could get some cash for Subasi, Del Real and Santamarina (actually I ended up getting much more for the latter two then I thought I would). I then took the cash and purchased players who were skilled enough in OD, passing and JS to start on the DIII level . . . that way I don't need to worry about training them at all. Casanavate, Raden and Snut are older players . . . but between the three of them, Ghitti, Coroado and Jones I should have the guard and Sf positions covered for several seasons. Finally, knowing that I am focused on training Weltmann and Jones this year and next, I found a couple young high potential players that I will work into training so I can sell them for a profit later. Vazgelevious and Seward may not be on any national teams soon . . but I will probably be able to turn a 500K profit on them in two seasons.
Was the purchase of Casnavate, Raden AND Snut overkill when I know that Ghitti is an A+ starter for the next 4 seasons? Probably. But I don't want to run the risk of having 1 or 2 (or God forbid 3) injuries hit my squad during a run at possible promotion. I have a lot invested in my current run, and I want to have the depth and flexibility to deal with injuries, another team buying 2 100K salary studs, etc.
That said . . . at the end of next season, I will be done training Weltmann and Jones (Weltmann will be going on 25 and Jones only has allstar potential). So I will be making another similar decision at that time (which will make Vaz and Seward all the more important from a financial perspective).