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Or spend the next week or so looking for bargains on the transfer list and building a great team and promote this season.

I believe it's bigger than looking, promoting and building "just another great team".

What do you mean?

I mean it can be freakin' Dream Team someday.

You keep saying everyone is playing the same game so no one is disadvantaged. But I am only saying it's not funny. It's that simple really. It's not about the game is fair to everyone or not.

You can use draconian measures to smooth out the price curves but to what end?

I think that's what I was trying to say but you said it much better (free agents = draconian measure). Although, my feeling says you were not trying to argue my point. I think there was a time for this draconian measure but its time is coming to an end.

We do not exist in a free market at the moment. The market will not be "free" until free agents are gone.

Note that I am not advocating a complete elimination of free agents, at least not yet. I am quite sure if that happened we would see the same thing as last time: spiraling out of control prices. But at the very least the flow needs to start to ebb.

The current free agent mechanism is based on salary. Why not keep that but then also introduce a random factor whereby x% of players who would normally become free agents retire instead? That would still keep a good distribution between good and fantastic players but at the same time reduce their supply on the market.

Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 10/28/2010 12:21:08 PM

I think that's what I was trying to say but you said it much better (free agents = draconian measure). Although, my feeling says you were not trying to argue my point. I think there was a time for this draconian measure but its time is coming to an end.

Draconian? ROFL.

Draconian means unusually severe or cruel. Man, you guys sure know how to blow things out of proportion. This is an online game. Adjectives like draconian should never be used for an online game. Is the market right now downright crummy for sellers? Sure. Is it cruel? Haha. Go to Somali or Sudan to see what cruel means.

Draconian?

It was his word. As others have pointed out in the past, I am not a human dictionary or a grammar master. So please feel free to insert whatever you feel is more appropriate.

Draconian means unusually severe or cruel.

Take out the cruel and unusual part and that's what I meant.

I am not a human dictionary or a grammar master

Neither am I. I only got a B in English 101. But you're on the internet. If you had no idea what the word meant, google it. You make yourself less credible to the people reading this debate if you go on like that.

I think that that the problem,more than the simply prizes,is in the way the market work

The situation in a normal market,prices should work in this way:

Top Nt players -->I div starters -->2div starters -->3 div starters -->4 div starters... and so on

It should exist some kind of player with a certain level of primary skill to use as a basic parameter,adjusted on age,potential,salary,secondaries and so on,to evaluate the value of a player
When I was in my first season in game(season 6/7) you could find a roughly affidable "basilar player" to evaluate the players on market list,and you could estabilsh a certain economic difference among the value of a 4 div starter and a % div starter


This linear prices system in the actual market doesn't really exists,because with this economical system it happens that Top centers worth less tha 3 div starters,the price difference between categories of player was reduced or completely eliminated and the fact that there are less money in circulation,boost the importance of some outliar in the prize of some player,far away from the market value(both in positive and negative direction)

Draconian simply means harsh or extreme measures. Most words in the English language have shades of gray and can be used in many different situations. I got a nearly perfect score in both the verbal and writing portions of the SATs by the way.

So? Still doesn't apply to the BB market.