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I agree that these are all good GMs, but that doesn't mean it has not created an issue. I got very good at taking older players turning them into assets and flipping those assets for other older players. The market has really dried up on this as a lot of those assets are concentrated with only a few teams. Best we can hope for is to get lucky with a player.
GRANT: I actually don't really understand this point. What are you saying here?
Sure you optimize your return, but the teams adding now have a player where only 4-5 teams have the assets (or are willing to spend the assets) to acquire. A Team sitting with only a few young pieces is unlikely to part them for only one player.
Grant: Sure and that's up to them. Re-build the asset base slowly - it can happen. We've seen it happen.
It is impossible for all GM's to do the strategy. A few could pillage prospects/picks from other bottom teams but that wouldnt really solve the issue\. Currently it would take 4-5 years perhaps to build up this asset base. Picks are also being hoarded at the top. How do we extract those picks without the top teams without giving up an asset.
Grant: You seem to think that picks is a big part of the issue. But let's be honest, one of the main reasons picks are horded is because not all GMs care about picks. And I would also say that drafting well is an under-rated skill. We can't force GMs to care about the draft or invest the time into researching it to make good picks. One of the reasons teams at the top can get picks is because some teams simply don't value them as highly as we do. That's not on us. Look at what teams like Philly and Pitt constantly do - which is trade for picks not this draft but the following draft. I wish I had the discipline to do that strategy because you can get a 2016 pick WAY easier than a 2015 pick but in the long-term it is worth about the same. This is the core if what we are talking about here - which is maximizing asset value.
One more point - every summer I have a massive cap crunch and have to give players away at a pretty good price. So a redistribution of assets does happen but it is concentrated with the veteran players.
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