Males can breed multiple females per year, and reach sexual maturity way faster then females. You gave a great example in your albino to normal pairing in the OP. if you are producing het albinos this year, from a female albino to a male normal, with the purpose of holding a male back to breed to your female albino next year, you have thrown a huge chunk of money out the window. Ball python morph prices will always trend downward. So in this example you would have bought your female albino at the price it was 2-3 years ago and watched the price of that gene steadily fall while she was raising up for breeding. Now that she is breeding (finally) but you only have a male normal to pair her to and you will only get one clutch of eggs. You will have a really hard time, at this rate, recouping the initial investment into albinos you made 2-3 years ago with that female. Additionally you now have nothing to breed with your normal male in the future. You want to produce albinos down the line, and you have het albino males. So after a single year of breeding your normal male he now has no useful purpose in your breeding project.
Instead of paying a for lot more for that albino female 2-3 years ago, instead you could have bought a whole bunch of females; be they normals, or way better yet, het albinos or other single gene females. Then you would have bought your male albino a year or two later at a FRACTION of the price you would have paid for that albino female in the other example. Now you have a whole albino project up and running, with multiple cool females to pair to your albino male. You will make a pile of het albinos this year.
In both examples you produce het albinos this year. In one example, you produce only one clutch and immediately have no use for your normal male breeder. In the other example you produce a whole pile of het albinos , and your male breeder is still very useful. One is a smart way to go about breeding BPs, one is not.
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