Joey,

1)If the system did not stink, we would not be having this discussion! I'm a very active and pretty good at putting deals together and failed miserably at getting deals done with UNM-teams.

2) The current system has not produced less UNM-teams so something's not working. To your point taht mgr's will not joing leagues if they can't trade with UNM-teams, well-----they are not joining now so the problem(s) lie elsewhere.

3) What about the rest of my idea? Incent managers to take over the horrible teams by having them pay less? I would consider taking over a hopeless team at 1/2 cost. I would not give it the same amount of attention that I do my other teams but I would try to improve it and initiate and respond to trades and probably have it in better shape within 2 years...