elbows
Well-Known Member
Probably to somewhat reduce volatility/pace of transfers by limiting the level of encouragement that the system gives for people to hop off players at the earliest opportunity without consequence in terms of then having to pay more than you sold them for if you decide to get them back again. It will encourage people to stick with some players for a bit longer than they otherwise would.
It also slows the extent to which someone like me ends up with a clear advantage later in the season when it comes to what team I can afford compared to others that dont do as many transfers and early transfers or deliberately try to build team value like I do. Most seasons, by the second half of the season I end up with a team that is obviously worth more than many of the people Im competing with, and I think it would be a serious imbalance to the game if I could make that difference even more extreme without spending even more points on transfers.
Obviously there are other ways they could achieve similar results. And Im not really a huge fan of the opaque nature of price changes, especially when I think about what the game is like to play for people who are new to it or have less time to faff around discovering info. At the very least they should really give indications of imminent price rises and falls on their own website, rather than giving people like me an advantage because I happen to know what 3rd party website to look at and how to interpret the other sites price change predictions. I wouldnt ditch price changes completely, it brings an extra dimension to the game that offers people a different way to play, different sense of priorities and risk/reward when weighing up decisions and timing, and a way for the season to evolve, increasing the sense of it being a proper marathon rather than a series of weekly sprints. But they could certainly simplify it or at least provide all the useful price change clues themselves.
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