This has to be the last season he can afford this payroll, right?
now you're seeing what it's like to compete against Ozone -- i have been asking that question for the last two seasons.
his maneuvering is even more amazing when you realize he has no US NT players and that winning the NBBA title is really not all that lucrative. he has maximized the attendance boost for the past couple of seasons, which means $600,000 in revenue. i doubt he spends much on staff (although his doctors actually kept players healthy, unlike the ill-trained witch doctors the Stags have suffered through). i figure that for much of this season Ozone was approximately breaking even from week to week before Cup winnings; he spend most or all of his savings on Ozveren (who looks to be another awesome player on a squad full of them), which i figure means he is running a weekly deficit of perhaps $100,000 a week. (of course, he may sell a PF, and that would brighten his finances at the expense of depth.) he has taken a calculated risk and is relying on a decent Cup and B3 run to tide him over this season, and use his massive LI game to bowl over any opposition we may try to muster.
i think G Khan has beefed up his interior game and should have HCA advantage. Right now, before injuries, i think the Whalers' run of NBBA titles will end this season and with that Ozone will begin his descent back to the world the rest of us play in. But i have underestimated the Whalers before . . .