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From: fury508
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Date: 3/7/2020 10:38:44 AM
Wilmington Tiger Sharks
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Waipahu Fighting Cocks
The gist: You would have a farm team for players 21 and under to train. These players could be called up to the main team at any time. Your U21 team would compete with other U21 club teams. Lots of possibilities beyond this.

The drawback: You could only do team training (for any stat) at lvl 3 trainer level, so it would still be advantageous to train your prospects on your main team.

The fun of it: I think it would be interesting to see people try to find U21 guys for their club team -- yeah they won't develop as fast while assigned to the junior team, but that's the price you would have to pay to compete.




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Date: 3/7/2020 12:00:57 PM
Le Cotiche
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team training with level 3 trainer means those players would just suck

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Date: 3/7/2020 12:11:24 PM
Wilmington Tiger Sharks
II.4
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Waipahu Fighting Cocks
There would have to be some kind of penalty for putting your U21 guys on the junior team -- but this is all an idea, so that part of it could be changed I guess.

They wouldn't have to suck when you pick em up off the TL, either. The allure would not be to train your guys on the team, but maybe to drop down guys from the main squad when it's not a training week -- or maybe (call me crazy) just to have the most competitive junior team. Maybe instead of tossing draftees that suck, they automatically get drafted to the junior team until called up.

The strategy of it would be to balance your overall team success vs. the junior team's success...and maybe you train a guy all season on the main club so he's a beast for the U21 playoffs.

I guess ultimately players that stayed on the junior team for all 4 seasons would improve very slowly -- but your best guys would be on the main club training and only come down for the playoffs anyway -- so you'd have career junior players that suck...and legit U21 stars that play for the senior squad.

It sounds fun to me.

Last edited by fury508 at 3/7/2020 12:12:02 PM

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Date: 3/7/2020 12:52:14 PM
Le Cotiche
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the problem is that you can't give an in-game advantage to supporters

you may want to create a team of bad young players, but honestly i don't see the purpose to waste effort in this direction when the website clearly needs focus in critical areas like the app, a non-flash game viewer, and just not crumbling under the bugs that keep popping up in the recent weeks

Last edited by mark_lenders at 3/7/2020 12:54:08 PM

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Date: 3/7/2020 8:44:25 PM
Wilmington Tiger Sharks
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Waipahu Fighting Cocks
Dude I'm not asking for this to be implemented immediately lol...help me make a better suggestion by lending your knowledge of the game into something that might be a good feature moving forward...that's what this is all about. If my suggestion has holes...fill it in with ideas that make sense...dont just down the idea and not tell me how I can make it better!

From: Naeem
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Date: 3/8/2020 12:45:38 PM
Detroit Mercy Mavericks
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GoFarsr Revolutions
I think it would be better if it were a U-18 approach. Player age limits would be between 15 minimum to 17 at the oldest and once they turn 18 you have to make the decision to officially call them up to the main team or dump them. The earliest they could play for you main team is 18 so they have to stay in the youth squad regardless of what age you got them.

Training being limited to a level 3 trainer max at that point would make sense because they would still be developing but before the age of 18 which is the minimum age for the regular teams now anyway. Once they are on the main squad, they can be trained like anyone else.

Furthermore and MOST Importantly...this wouldn't be supporter specific. This would be for all players and it would be optional. If you don't want a Youth academy for your organization, you wouldn't have to have one. It would be similar to your Utopia team just more limited in regards to the following:

Age of players (15-17 Call up or drop date being their 18th birthday or just before it)

Staff acquisition (You'd only be able to hire a trainer between levels 1 to 3 and a Scout which wouldn't have a level which would make the finding of youth players equally random regardless of what division you play in or how much money you have. Team doctor and other staff would be whoever you have hired to your Senior team)

Arena (would be your Senior team arena. They would play before or on different days from your Senior team)

A maximum of 4 players could be called up at once. It wouldn't make sense for any team to have all 15 year olds or all 17 year olds. Once selecting the option of starting a youth team, youd be given 4 players aged 15, 16, and 17 for a full initial squad of 12 players that you can scout players throughout the season and add for a roster of up to 15 players max.(or 18)


Youth academies are a well noted part of the soccer world but they can be applied to the basketball world as well.
A huge benefit from this would be more playable content to retain both long time and brand new players to the game.
This could also help in developing a Buzzer Beater community with a higher content of well rounded players.


Finally, to make this truly accessible to all players and not just the mega rich in D.1 or D.2, make the price of starting a youth academy something reasonable like say $200,000 with a $10,000 weekly upkeep fee. The main and only additional thing you really need for youth teams is a place for them to play, the players themselves (many parents would actually pay to have their kids have an opportunity to play for a youth academy and have a shot at the pros), and a trainer/coach for them. Of course you can always go more in depth than that but for development and simplicities sake, it could be kept at that which would make it doable for anyone. Even a broke team if they save up over a season could eventually get involved in the youth game.

Because of an introduction of the U-18 Youth system, the current draft could honestly be kept just as it is, or you could reduce it from 3 rounds to 2 rounds. Either way, This adds another positive element to the game. Hattrick, a soccer manager game does something similar to this already and I think its wildly successful there. I sincerely believe it would be here too. Id rather have that than the mobile app but if this doesn't come until after wards that's fine too.

Fun fact...I didn't like Hattrick at first. I almost dropped it the same day I started it. It was the element of having a Youth Academy that kept me around and now I actually like the game. I like BB far more though so why shouldn't the BB world have something equally awesome that would benefit everyone?

From: Honu

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Date: 4/19/2020 4:19:12 PM
BK HAWAII HONU
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BK Hawaii Surfers II
This would be perfect to have youngster team or something similar.
I am crazy of BB and one of reasons i bought supporters option is to have one more team so it keeps me busy.
To have young player team would make me more pensioned about BB and would be more interesting to have one.
More scouting more training tactics more to develop.
I do understand that first priority is to make APP and to replace flash player, but this idea I support of having youngsters team.
One thing to add.I think this all thing would be great for everybody not just for supporters package.

Best regards
BK HAWAII HONU


Last edited by Honu at 4/19/2020 4:26:16 PM

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Date: 4/24/2020 6:34:16 AM
Villaggio Sposi Squirrels
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This might be the best suggestion I have read in years (I used to play before, only rejoined in 2019). Thanks a lot for the great content!

Last edited by el_peluchero at 4/24/2020 6:34:30 AM

From: pachirri

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Date: 4/25/2020 12:09:27 PM
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Good idea!

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