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1/ Guards with IS have a significant increase in salary (5-10%). Not cool for LI teams.

Wrong. The only thing that has been claimed by Foto (his own admission), is that a moderate increase increase has been implemented for very very high levels of IS. Chaperon style high levels.

I proved that the most accurate salary simulation available projected Chaperon at 5k more salary than he has now. That is an incontrovertible fact, to which Foto answer is: Josef Ka and everyone else's formulas are incorrect.

So the facts are:
1) Chaperon has a salary 5k lower than Buzzer-Manager
2) Chaperon has 20 IS in the SF formula before and after the salary change

You and Foto claim his salary went up 5%-10% without any kind of evidence or inside knowledge, be it Buzzer-manager, Marin or anything else. According to Foto Chaperon would have had less than 50k salary in the previous formula, which implies that:
1) IS impact for him is like +12%
2) Buzzer-manager salary formulas, the most accurate formula available and contrary to any available evidence, are off by approximately 20%

2/ OD is more expensive on PF / C now. A logical consequence would be that people train less this skill now, helping outside oriented PF/C to score. We will see if this happens in the future. Possibly cool for outside teams

The problem has been clarified multiple times but you (and Foto) seem to be just ignoring the main point made by our German friends. The disparity between LI and outside tactics is not a skill issue, it's an overall payroll issue. The problem is that LI teams can afford more costly big men because LI guards are cheaper.

It has been said ad nauseam, but I'll repeat it for you since it seems it doesn't get through: the increase in secondaries hits everyone the same way, inside and outside oriented teams alike. However because there are only 4 inside skills most big men are effective both in inside and outside tactics, with the caveat that outside oriented big men actually require high secondaries, while LI not necessarily (although it's a nice to have, like the icing on the cake of superior primaries). Until you erase the disparity in salary for players used as guards nothing will change, the LI teams can still afford more expensive big men and outside teams will still need big men with top notch secondaries (they can't afford). And I must say the answers Foto gave do not show he has an answer to this either.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/9/2016 6:31:37 PM

You have misunderstood me twice

Foto (his own admission), is that a moderate increase increase has been implemented for very very high levels of IS. Chaperon level high levels.

No, I've said that it's more visible and higher with higher levels

I proved that the most accurate salary simulation available projected Chaperon at 5k more salary than he has now. That is an incontrovertible fact, to which Foto answer is: Joey Ka and everyone else's formulas are incorrect.

And here you are wrong again. It's not an incortrovertible fact, it's BuzzerManager against Marin. BuzzerManager says Chaperon's salary would be around 60k, Marin says Chaperon's salary would be far below 50k. And there is a difference between both, you can't put Chaperon's sublevels in BM, on the contrary, Marin can simulate it.

And here I have a doubt, why do you believe my first point (even when you have misunderstood me) and don't believe the second one? Or I have access to the source who has the information and both statements are true or I don't have it and both are false.


Last edited by Foto at 12/9/2016 4:43:50 PM

And here you are wrong again.

I'm not wrong, this is an English forum and I would expect you to understand English. It's an incontrovertible fact that the most accurate salary estimate we have projected Chaperon 5k more than his actual updated salary based on his skillset. This is the fact. Anyone can check buzzer-manager and check his skillset which I'm happy to provide for everyone's benefit.

And there is a difference between both, you can't put Chaperon's sublevels in BM, on the contrary, Marin can simulate it.

Buzzer-manager was higher by 4k. I assume the coefficient used are calculated through a regression analysis, therefore the salary can be overestimated by 2%-4%. You on the other hand are effectively claiming that Buzzer-Manager can be off 15% or more (60k+ estimate vs sub 50k actual salary which you claimed would have been under old formulas).

And here I have a doubt, why do you believe my first point (even when you have misunderstood me) and don't believe the second one? Or I have access to the source who has the information and both statements are true or I don't have it and both are false.

I don't believe your first point either obviously. I did let it go as the discussion was getting more interesting thanks to Robard and Falke. So, unless Marin comes out and says what he's done, I will not believe that there has been any significant change how Chaperon 20 IS impacts his salary. Buzzer-manager is not off by 15%+ unless someone can prove otherwise, because in the past it has always been extremely close to actual values. For Buzzer-Manager to be off by 6-7% on a 20 IS SF the IS change appears to be negligible.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/9/2016 5:14:41 PM

Well, reading your last post I understand a lot of things or your contributions in the forums.

Anyway, I beg your pardon, and your will understand that I won't write to you again, since you are calling me a liar.

Honestly guys all those changes mean very little to the game. While developers are working on tweaks in salary formula game is dying because of transfer market, training system and draft. Patient is dying doctor, it needs a CPR not a fricking vitamine c.

Last edited by LukeRev at 12/9/2016 5:55:48 PM

since you are calling me a liar.

XD oh wait you weren't joking.

You said I was wrong when you clearly did not understand that the fact I was referring to Buzzer-manager and not stating opinions as facts as others have done here. You said

I would have expected a salary far below 50k with the old formula.

I tell you that everyone can go and check 19,7,17 12,19,11 20,8,8,5 and see that in the old formula Buzzer-Manager had 60.3k salary. You then say Buzzer-manager is not accurate. I tell you it's not accurate by 2-4%, you are saying Chaperon without changes would be 16-20% below the Buzzer-manager estimate. You complain I called you a liar when I presented you with simple evidence based on the only tool available aside from the code itself.

I re-read all your posts and you never mentioned you were privy of the details of what's been done. So yeah, if you don't know the details it means it's your opinion. So I'm not saying you're lying, I'm saying that I think you're wrong.

So I did what a reasonable person would do. I asked that to invalidate all I said, you show me any player who has an actual salary which is 16%-20% than Buzzer-manager's estimate so that I can agree with you that Buzzer-manager cannot be used to estimate anything...

You could be true, but a huge amount of player's position variations would have been very painful for too many teams since a position change could mean a high change in salaries.

How is a salary increase that hits everyone the same decreasing the dominance of LI teams?
Thats the most simple wording of the problem i can imagine and the answer is still missing.