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What a battle in "balls", Naker leading 68 to 40 against Paper. Lets dethrone Naker, by giving as many points as you can to Paper

I appreciate the sentiment and really will not complain if it happens... But I would personally rather you gave the balls to BB-Edju. If anyone deserves them, it is him.

*rimshot*

;-)

I get it... And I will add that no one is better at making stupid posts than me. If I had a dime for every time a BB or GM or experienced user has corrected me on my assumptions, I would be rich now.

Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 8/31/2010 11:58:52 AM

Someone shouldn't have to say "in my opinion" in every post they make. I think that majority of posts are obvious as to whether someone is giving an opinion or not.

For example:

Yeah I am just training stamina and free throws until the draft.
I just sold a trainee a few weeks ago for 1.75 million, but in this current market with all prices so cheap training isn't really worth it at the moment.

I think it is quite clear that I am giving an opinion. And I am sure there would be many users that feel the same. Low transfer market prices logically means that training isn't as valuable. I'm not saying that training is useless or worthless, I'm just saying that I think training has lost a lot of value and may not be the best road to success. Do you agree?

Does opinions have any connect with ball rating?

What do you mean?

i think his getting at you shouldnt be balled for your thoughts on a matter.

though considering the only people that know things for sure are the bb's any post on here which is not directly from information given by the bb's is only someones thoughts i still feel the more helpful posts should get balled.



Last edited by zyler at 8/31/2010 12:36:56 PM

Someone shouldn't have to say "in my opinion" in every post they make.

True. But if making posts in the help (newbie) forum, as an experienced (and high balled) user, people are going to put a lot of weight into your comments. Especially comments like: "training isn't really worth it", without giving any context.

I think it is quite clear that I am giving an opinion.

I do not have the clarity that you have on that one. In my eyes, it looked like you were putting it out there as a statement of fact.

Do you agree?

I really do not have enough information to say anything one way or another on the issue, at least for the specifics of your team. However, if we are talking globally and not putting a time limit on anything, I completely disagree. I still think training is the 1st path to success in this game, even if the market has lost a lot of value.

As for your specific situation, I am not sure. But you gave some example about spending x dollars on trainees and only getting y dollars back. Why not spend $0 on a really low potential 19-20 year old, short player with a few guard skills and mediocre outside d. Take his outside d to proficient (maybe 10 weeks training?). I think you could make around 200k on such a move, probably more than you could make training FTs and stamina. And if the market improves at all, maybe you make even more money (really, can the market get any worse at this point?).

Anyhow, that's my last off-topic post for the day. ;-)

The fan survey will be restored to what it was before.

A suggested upgrade, if you are planning to keep the system as is for a while... Change it so we can tell which posts we have already "balled". I just tried to give you a ball for a post but I guess it was already given, since your # of balls did not increase.

And also allow us to remove balls if we want. I might change my mind and decide to take your balls away. ;-)

I've been in a relationship for almost 13 years - she claimed those a long time ago.

True. But if making posts in the help (newbie) forum, as an experienced (and high balled) user, people are going to put a lot of weight into your comments. Especially comments like: "training isn't really worth it", without giving any context.

If I had said in my opinion training isn't really worth it at the moment, would that have been better?

In my eyes, it looked like you were putting it out there as a statement of fact.

I think that the way I said it indicated that it is an opinion. Perhaps I wasn't clear though so I apologise.

As for your specific situation, I am not sure. But you gave some example about spending x dollars on trainees and only getting y dollars back. Why not spend $0 on a really low potential 19-20 year old, short player with a few guard skills and mediocre outside d. Take his outside d to proficient (maybe 10 weeks training?). I think you could make around 200k on such a move, probably more than you could make training FTs and stamina. And if the market improves at all, maybe you make even more money (really, can the market get any worse at this point?).

Okay consider this: I buy 3 cheap low potential young trainees with mediocre OD. Lets say I spend 10 weeks training outside defence to get it to proficient. And lets say I sell each of the players for 200k profit. That is 600k over 10 weeks of training. That is 60k a week profit from training. Take away 10 to 15k for the salary each week for those 3 trainees. That leaves 45k a week profit from training. However, I want to train my draftees that I get in the draft, so I can't pick up a player now because I won't be able to train much at all between now and the time I get my draftees.
Also, 45k a week isn't much. Especially if it means that I have to play the trainees in my league games, which means I will probably lose those games.
So in my opinion, for my team, I am far better of training free throws, stamina and gameshape for my older players and concentrate on winning all my league games to jump in to 5th place, and then list all my players for 1k during the week before playoffs.
I think I would make a lot more money doing it this way, but this is just my opinion.