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I'm really glad that there is no guaranteed reward for throwing one or two seasons. So I still think the draft system is good as it is now. How many LeBron James' or DRose's are there in one Draft Season worldwide? I'd say it'll be less than 10. Some of them end up playing Baseball others earn millions in the NBA.

I don't ask to have a guarentee LBJ or Rose in the draft,I would be satisfied if I can pick at least a Taj Gibson or a Courtney Lee if I'm in an high position in the draft

I seem to remember somebody (not pointing fingers...) saying its sooooo hard to move up through the game, and especially in hard countries like spain and italy. I remember gazillions of managers complaining about how they make no money and how the higher leagues can make money they cannot

I think you are talking about managers who don't want to put enough time into the game to read the whole manual and maybe some useful forum posts, make long-term plans or carefully pick their players from TL. I'm not saying they should be involved 2-3 hours/day into BB, but a lot of managers think they will be promoting every season into higher league with mediocre management.

Last edited by Koperboy at 6/1/2011 1:05:42 AM

You don't understand that the problem is not in the "absolute price" but in the "relative price"
3 M for a 18yold rookie when a full trained top player is paid 10M means a thing,a rookie paid 3M when the same previous top player is paid 4M mean all another thing
The point is always the same:how much a player cost considering all the factors(age,height,potential,ecc...) compared to the overall market
The scale of the market is out of mind actually,because it's not that a top rookie worth as a medium level player,actually happens that a top rookie worth as a top player,that doesn't have seanse because in the better situation at the end the two players will have the same skills,but you could not create value with training during that time you spend to make your rookie a top player

The fact is for every $100k you spend on wages thats $1.4mil a season.... so buying a top rookie thats going to cost you $80k max in his first season and maybe $300k max in season 2 etc... actually works out to be a reasonable deal.

Is their a luxury tax - sure... but thats the fault of the current NT set up and the fact only a slender % of managers can be successful. If you only plan to reward 120 odd managers each season then the other 50,000 + have to find ways to amuse themselves.... buying a young stud is one of the more common ways to do it.

let's talk about having more balanced draft pools for the different leagues: my draft pool this year has 12 player of age 18 and 36 (!) of age 19.
i'm depressed.

18+36=54
There are 48 guys in the draft.

12+36=48

:p

I have to admit that I used to think that two plus two always equaled 4, but when I learned to actually go inside the numbers, at first I got nauseous and hurled, which wasn’t pretty since I had cheeseless tacos for lunch and apparently I didn’t really chew the tomatoes so much so that they looked like those beads that gather on my bedroom window on stormy afternoons when the clouds bend the air into soft knots, but then, after I got my bearings and could see that the numbers were actually bendable and could be turned inside-out, and I starting squeezing them and watching their heads pop off, which of course had the affect of opening holes in logic and the water was rushing in, not really water but it felt like water and tasted more like warm melted popcorn, and all the ones were talking like more-than-ones, and that made everything else different, too, since everything has ones, you can seen them all if you look at any number but try to look through them and then quickly change you focus and look at them again before they can close back up, and suddenly it became very clear to me that even two plus two really depends on variables of variables and isn’t worth the effort of trying to figure out what it really is, and it certainly isn’t a good idea to try if you just ate cheeseless tacos no matter how much you chew up the tomatoes, and don’t forget to make sure the lettuce is shredded enough to fit between the meat chunks.