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The transfer market is crazy. This we know. Here to talk about his experience with a nuts economy is the Manager of Funky Town Fire, and former three time NBBA champion - Calum!
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Chek: Welcome to the show! Tell us a bit about yourself!Cal: Hi Chekreyes! I'm a 31 yo Scot living in Southern California (they let me in cos I have an engineering Masters, suckers!) - recently married a lovely mexican-american lady and probably moving to NYC soon - I miss the cold.
Chek: You’ve played the game for an extraordinarily long amount of time, but recently you just came back from a semi-inactive period. What brought you back?Cal: It's hazy, I was looking for a distraction at work, browsing the offsite and came across a thread about Cliff Duncan. I was intrigued by the prospect at training a once-in-a-generation player. As soon as I had him I was hooked again. I'm still surprised I came back, I received that '1 week to deactivation' email a couple of times during my inactive years but somehow clung on. Must've been the nostalgia.
Chek: How much money had you accumulated after all that free fall? Cal: I think I had ~ 20mil, was nothing insane. When I sold my (still young) treble winning team I only received ~5m so had about $7m at the start of my inactivity.
Chek: How has BB changed from the start of your tanking/absence to now?Cal: Less users but I think more dedicated ones. The cream has finally risen to the top (when I played before the NBBA was all the guys who'd been here the longest).
Transfer market of high-end players is night/day - 10x the price of when I left (I sold a 30yo Paul Owens for $300k). More regular players about 2x higher however a lot of that growth was in the season or 2 when I first returned (terrible timing!).
Another big challenge has been the requirement for manual training projection, match-up scouting, etc. - I miss the offsite tools more than anything else!!!
Chek: You changed your teams name in Season 13. What inspired the change and does it have anything to do with your forum avatar?Cal: I decided that Burntisland (the town I'm from in Scotland) Fire was kinda boring, so wanted to change it to 'Funky Town Monkey Pimps' - you know, as you do....I had a cool logo in mind and everything.
It was going to be staged over a couple of seasons (to maintain my identity of course) but by then FTF had a bit of brand recognition and I decided to keep it! :D
Nothing to do with the avatar, i saw that on some forum somewhere and realized that's exactly how I read most posts around here (especially the classic Wolph-battles). I am entertained by others taking things too seriously. MJ is funky, it just worked.
Chek: Your biggest project since returning seems to be your trainees. Tell us about them, specifically, did they cost more than they would have ten seasons ago?Cal: I luckily 'overpaid' $4m for Duncan just at the start of this TL inflation (I'm certain he would bring me $9m+ if I sold now). He was a 62TSP+ HOF draftee (low RB) and was I picked him up early in 19th year. I say 'overpaid' because my experience said he wasn't worth over $3m, and he'd gone for $3.3m the season before. I remember when brian picked up Nemesio for $7m though - so can't complain.
He's now 21 and at 99TSP after getting over a couple of bad injuries. You can check out his training diary here:
http://s3.zetaboards.com/BuzzerBeater_USA_NT/topic/775670...With the addition of 2 more HOF USA trainees (Horn and Cameron) I've now set ambitious goal of training 3 NT players simultaneously. Otto Cameron I picked up after watching him go for $1.3, $2.7, and then $2.9 (me) million in consecutive seasons. Horn was $2m.
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