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Here's how to win your first season.

1: Leverage up. Issue bonds from the lower right corner of the Finance page so you'll have greater liquidity.

2: Raise your salary cap to the max.

3: Hire an aggressive coach with high teamwork stats. Use the Refresh button to shop for an ideal candidate.

4: Fire all the default players and hire new ones based on the stats shadowed in gray. Teamwork is the most important stat because of its multiplayer effect. Again, you can shop for ideal candidates with the Refresh button. Sort them into an A-team and a B-team, such that the A-team's "fine tune" is the highest number possible, perhaps 40 or more for your first season.

5: Road test the team for a few games, using the coach slider to manage for fatigue. Do not play at full intensity, or the fatigue will compound.

6: Once you're winning more games than not and consistently profitable, use the auto-season to speed things up.

7: Periodically pause the auto-season to check your finances. Extra money should go into advertising, especially building your fanbase. If you're filling your arena to full capacity, raise the ticket prices.

8: Save before the playoffs! You can't save during them. Consider revamping the roster before as well, since your roster will be locked in once the playoffs begin. You should easily be able to afford the $6,000,000 salary cap by now.

If you do all of this, you should become profitable by the end of your first season, and then you won't really have to worry about going bankrupt anymore. Thanks for playing, and enjoy!

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