The economics of the game have switched around a few times. A couple of times I have been on the front of it, and a couple on the back. I managed to promote to the NBBA twice, and had a couple others I should have...and probably could easily have if I'd spent at the right times. I do think that when KDB demoted, he did it at just the right time. It was still easy enough to dominate lower levels, train, and make money at the same time. After that, it became much more difficult to do all three simultaneously. The times I could have promoted, had I, I would have had the money to challenge for the NBBA title in my first season. The problem was, I couldn't save that kind of money, already have a few of the players I would need, and have the resources I would need to do that. On the other hand, if the goal was simply promotion, it probably would have come easily. Then, I did make just promotion a goal, spent a pile of money, and proceeded to mess up my chance. One issue was that there were enough people trying the same thing, that if two people got into a promotion battle, it got very costly and risky. It usually would take a team that'd be midtable NBBA to win a II league. It then became much more likely that you'd spend quite a few seasons down. If that goes on for a couple seasons, you'll get stuck in the economics of the lower league. The long and short of that is, if a team has the ability to stay up, they should. Otherwise, it turns into a real longball game that can be boring.