I'm sure that to reach their current level of success, each of the top 25 players listed spent thousands of dollars over the years buying teams and learning the nuts and bolts of how this game works, so eventually they could consistently win championships. I'm also sure that along the way, they all endured the well-known frustration of some losing seasons, while gaining experience and knowledge.
If someone takes out student loans and works hard for a finance degree in business school, shrewdly reinvests their earned income with discipline and within the rules of the system throughout their career, and they are successful enough to live off the interest in their later years, than who am I to fault their prosperity?
Many of those listed help relative novices like me by sharing valuable info in these forums. I've personally found that their tips have helped me improve my teams incrementally. In fact, just last week, for the 5th time, I re-listened to the 2 podcasts in which skunk and ozomatli were interviewed, because both owners kindly offer up so much useful info.
Plus, very little in this game is actually hidden. I see many of those owners listed succeeding in open leagues, and view it as an opportunity to examine their results vs. stats, to try and reverse-engineer how their teams win. That challenge is part of the fun of the process.
Many of the consistent winners of championships have given back to novices like me, by sharing their roadmap to success. It's just that some novices choose to read the map and slowly walk down the same path, and others do not.
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