I know that, wcfranek was talking about a player he currently has, not one he was looking to buy (or at least I thought he was). There won't be any players for sale in the auction at level 1 with $25 k wages but a player bought from auction will have his value increase over the season, and that's what I was referring to.
And I also said you can ignore wage and just look at value, so we agree there.