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Draft players must be on the payroll for their first years

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204273.1
Date: 12/09/2011 16:42:54
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This is a different suggestion on the same issue - draft players.
Basically I believe that we need to think on what works at different "real" leagues and bring (most of) them to BB with maybe some modification.

The idea is that by not allowing to fire or sell a player drafted (at least on the first round/s), will cause ALL users to put more into their training and into their scouting.

Training and drafting should have much bigger role in this game than just being a good "eBay trader" (or just having the "great" ability of having a much more flexible time).
This features are almost void for the top leagues and this also makes the game more shallow.
When there are more features in a game (and features that are related to it), users tends to enjoy the game more, and to stay more in it.

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204273.3 in reply to 204273.2
Date: 12/09/2011 17:02:27
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If you don't know how to train, you'll have no future in this game, even i you are a good day trader. Don't travestite the truth, this game is not about trading, but managing a basket team. If you don't know how to do it, you will win your first seasons because you'll face shit, but in the upper leagues, you'll be the shit.
It is equal of saying that teaching to use Office makes one a good programer.
It is all about the level of usage.

There is not enough good draft to allow all 16 teams three good draftees and you want to pay them ? Well, you'll see another type of draft, those who'll seek the most awful draftee possible to don't pay them and use it as scrubs in the scrimmage game. On the opposite of what you seek.
Great - so they will have a strategy and they will exploit it by better scouting in the draft! That is one of the things I've pointed toward. Thanks for your help!
It doesn't matter what will they do. They will have a strategy.

Like in the NBA where the first round have a guranteed contract, the same is suggested here.
When there is an obligation, the teams are trying harder to exploit what they are already paying for.

Let's go for another thread about the draft. It's funny, usually those threads pops closer to the draft.
Each thread is a different suggestion.
We can also use one single thread and call it "Suggestion" if you will prefer...

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204273.4 in reply to 204273.1
Date: 12/09/2011 17:19:20
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This is really irrelevant, I think. Even if I invest 20k a week in scouting (which I do), my first round pick may turn out to be a crappy 3k rookie that's never going to become any good. People don't fire them to save in salary. 3k x 14 weeks = 42k, it's what you get from the first round of the cup, so I don't really see the point. Besides, I already invested 20k x 14 = 280k to get this piece of crap... When you are in a position where the players you need to compete are much better than the rookies you find, and even in div IV that can happen, it's not any useless bench-warming rookie that is good enough. So if a player is not good enough to be trained, why should I have to look at his face for a whole season?

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204273.7 in reply to 204273.6
Date: 12/09/2011 18:41:54
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Besides, even if we ignore the fact that this is not the NBA, even though every team in a crappy div V would rather compare his league to the NBA than to anything else, there are teams in the NBA that give away their draft picks for close to nothing. So it's not like everyone is committed to their first round pick. Teams trade their picks for future second round picks...

From: abigfishy

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204273.8 in reply to 204273.7
Date: 12/09/2011 20:45:29
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yet another pathetic suggestion

so i draft a 7k 7'4" hof c but i cant sell him for a season even though i am already training guards so i have to screw either him or my existing players?

brilliant!

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204273.9 in reply to 204273.1
Date: 12/09/2011 20:50:55
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Stop your daily bad suggestions ffs.

From: rcvaz

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204273.10 in reply to 204273.9
Date: 12/09/2011 21:19:13
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You know what they say, "An useless and nonsensical suggestion a day keeps the doctor away"!

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204273.11 in reply to 204273.4
Date: 12/10/2011 05:59:32
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And again, the combination of two of my suggestions will do the work, like they do in the NBA.
Players in higher leagues should be more "mature' players, but with lower potentail or with lower rate of improvement.
By that - they're payroll will be high enough to take care of them, and you will need to invest more on their training managing, and on the draft managing. Summary - invest more time on BB-managing.

Crap player exists also on NBA draft.