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and you gotta know when to fold them

im folding my current team. i have ~=3mil in teh bank, but even with the purchase of an 80k a week player i dont think i can make up 3 games, plus all my best players are 28. so even if i survived this year i was unlikely to make nbba next year, and then the year after that my team is officially old.

sorry for not doing this at the right time for competitive balance reasons, but i screwed up my friendly orders and have to rebuild at the time thats best for me now that greer is hurt.

edit: as a note im not leaving the game, just going to bank a bunch of money, spend a decent bit on scouting, and hope for a market crash. i should be a mid-level team in d3 (unlike last time i demoted when i was pretty sure i was going right back up)

i realize financially the windfall gap from d2 to d3 is pretty massive (2-3 mil a year), but if my goal is to win a major title (NBBA or cup), i cant keep being a middling team, so i have to take a gamble, raise 12 mil, hope prices plunge then buy my way to success.

also it will give me a chance to work more on the economic side of my game and less on the game engine theoretical part. so it should be fun, but i dont expect to be here much longer. in the interim, i have some pretty useful players for sale.

lets see what the staff does with the next round of updates

Last edited by TheUnrepentantGunner at 5/7/2010 3:18:22 PM

I was going to comment about what a concrete vagina you were to wait until I'd already spent $3M before going Postal, but then I saw your players and realized I don't have the slightest interest in any of them (well, Ortega would make a nice backup, but I can't justify picking him up right now). And Paiva is the ugliest PF I think I've ever seen, and I'm not talking about his face.

Best of luck to you. Feel free to give us fair warning before you decide to buy your cup title.

Your call, it's not up to anyone to decide what you do with your team and when.

All I ask is that you don't provide walk overs, for training purposes. Yes, that would be very nice of you.

Good luck in Div III.

Wow. It's crazy to see other peoples players. I can't believe that's all Ortega is. You were getting ripped off by him. The Shot Blocking was nice but damn man.

Yeah, isn't that funny. Ortega's skillset was not out-of-this-world by any means, but I'd say that Gunner got about all out of Ortega as anyone could ask for:-)

its funny. He was top of the line when i bought him season 6.he got cut from the USA nt after my purchase, since i had no desire to train him and caps had just come into play and it was assumed he was near his cap. through about season 8 he still was solid against any center in d2. after that was the decline. his salary was inflated by his shotblocking rating, but he pulls in a ton of merchandise (even with my piece of shit record im still well above average for merchandise)

anyway, its time for him to go while he has some value.

my two best overall players (greer and arreola) won't be for sale. ill etiher mono train pg's or actually train bigs.

and yes, paiva was a failed science experiment.hes still trainable at 22, and could actually be an interesting player if trained right

Hehe, just heard the heavy metal cover of the Gambler song, made famous by good ol' Kenny.

It sounds so wrong.

its funny. He was top of the line when i bought him season 6.he got cut from the USA nt after my purchase, since i had no desire to train him and caps had just come into play and it was assumed he was near his cap. through about season 8 he still was solid against any center in d2. after that was the decline. his salary was inflated by his shotblocking rating, but he pulls in a ton of merchandise (even with my piece of shit record im still well above average for merchandise)

anyway, its time for him to go while he has some value.

I'm reminded of the conversation we had when you bought him: (46480.1) I still haven't changed my opinion on SB.

and yes, paiva was a failed science experiment.hes still trainable at 22, and could actually be an interesting player if trained right

Ok, you're begging me to ask: What the hell were his skills when you bought him?

On my iPhone so illhave to get back to u. But he was a generic 19 year old bigman with height suitable for a sg/sf

He looks to have been quite generic.

good burn. im actually debating whether or not to take my money and buy 2-3 top end 22 year olds (which would assume a rise in market prices)< or to bank the money and wait for a market crash. huge decision and one i knd of have to get right