What Is A Cash Cow?

[Adrian Shelton]

HOWDY, JUST NEW AT THIS, EVERY1 IS TALKING ABOUT "CASH COWS". CAN YOU SHED SOME LIGHT. CHEERS.

 

[steainsy]

HOWDY, JUST NEW AT THIS, EVERY1 IS TALKING ABOUT "CASH COWS". CAN YOU SHED SOME LIGHT. CHEERS.

From my understanding, a cash cow is a player picked solely on the premise that their value will rise, in which case you can trade them off for a better playing. Basically, your milking them for their value, so the name cash cow.

 

[Benno_900]

A player you leave on the bench for a while just for his value to increase and then you upgrade him to an elite player or trade him for another bottom price player to make $.

 

[Jabso]

Give us an example please.

 

[Benno_900]

Jon Hay

 

[Kaiser Powser]

A "Cash Cow" is a marketing term for a product that makes loads of money with little risk or advertising.

The term applied to Dreamteam refers to a kid or player purchased for the primary purpose of increasing in value and then being traded for another kid and therefore earning you extra cash, or being upgraded to a star.

 

[steainsy]

Give us an example please.

J. Adock, B Gibbs, X Ellis etc.

 

[Butane]

Jon Hay

Not his fault, he didn't right the contract.

Anyway, someone like Aaron Edwards might be a cash cow, he's worth more then 82,000 and will increase in value. But you might not want him in your main team so you just keep him as reserve, and when he goes up to 150,000 you sell him and buy someone else who you might want in your team.

 

[Dazman]

Only $150,000. I'm gonna sit him on the pine until I can do a straight swap for Jono Brown.

 

[writeoff]

Cash cows graze near money trees.

 

[Solstice Raver]

Cash cows graze near money trees.

 

[Fitz]

From my understanding, a cash cow is a player picked solely on the premise that their value will rise, in which case you can trade them off for a better playing. Basically, your milking them for their value, so the name cash cow.

To expand the BCG analogy further, you could say players can be divided into four groups:

CASH COWS: Low Price/High Likelihood of improvement
STARS: High Price/High Likelihood of improvement
DOGS: High Price/Low Likelihood of improvement
QUESTION MARKS: Low Price/Low Likelihood of improvement

The goal is to get a balance of Cash Cows and Stars but sometimes a few Question Marks are needed to make up the numbers.