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252782.132 in reply to 252782.131
Date: 1/2/2014 2:39:45 PM
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Another reason why I dislike this overspending rule: injuries. As a serious manager you estimate how much money you make a week and how much salary you can afford (say 450k/week). Your league is competitve and you have to fight to stay off relegation / demotion. Then suddenly one of your startes (60k/week) is injured for two weeks. So in reality he'll most likely be out for 3 weeks (gameshape). You need another player to play instead of him. So you buy one. And all of a sudden you're "overspending" although you've got 1 million on your bank account.

I'm not exaggerating here. Happened quite a few times that one of my players with 80k / even 200k got injured. Tieg even twice in his last season with me, second time for 4 weeks. My doctor wasn't that bad.

These injuries occur and they have to, because they happen in reality, too. But another time one is punished twice by this new rule.

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252782.133 in reply to 252782.132
Date: 1/2/2014 3:01:38 PM
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Excellent point there and one for the "suggestions". Injured players excluded from the OT mix.
Or injured players exluded if replacement is bought before financial update and has minimum x % salary, comparing to the injured's one.

Salary cap and luxury tax would be ideal, but i suppose there are great technical issues, let alone that there should be special provisions for every division and every division group, in order to be just.

Attendances is another matter i see as a separate problem, that encourages tanking as well. Some tweaking went on last season, but personally i dont think it was nowhere near enough. More is needed and its urgent.

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252782.134 in reply to 252782.132
Date: 1/2/2014 3:38:38 PM
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Another reason why I dislike this overspending rule: injuries. As a serious manager you estimate how much money you make a week and how much salary you can afford (say 450k/week). Your league is competitve and you have to fight to stay off relegation / demotion. Then suddenly one of your startes (60k/week) is injured for two weeks. So in reality he'll most likely be out for 3 weeks (gameshape). You need another player to play instead of him. So you buy one. And all of a sudden you're "overspending" although you've got 1 million on your bank account.

I'm not exaggerating here. Happened quite a few times that one of my players with 80k / even 200k got injured. Tieg even twice in his last season with me, second time for 4 weeks. My doctor wasn't that bad.

These injuries occur and they have to, because they happen in reality, too. But another time one is punished twice by this new rule.


The counter-argument is that users have every opportunity to run a roster that's deeper rather than top heavy, and anyone choosing to run a roster in that manner should be prepared to accept the consequences.

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Date: 1/2/2014 5:26:01 PM
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The counter-argument is that users have every opportunity to run a roster that's deeper rather than top heavy, and anyone choosing to run a roster in that manner should be prepared to accept the consequences.
That's an extremely good point. Look at the Bulls' recent history as an example.

However, I still think a better fix would have been with the fan survey. If you're in D.1 (or even D.2) anywhere in the world and you're playing every week a 10-50k roster and everyone else is playing 500k+ rosters... Your fans are going to be pretty unhappy, especially if you're accumulating wealth like nothing else, and even more if you've already got millions in the bank. The only fans that would turn up would be religiously loyal ones or fans for the other team.

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Date: 1/2/2014 6:26:15 PM
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The counter-argument is that users have every opportunity to run a roster that's deeper rather than top heavy, and anyone choosing to run a roster in that manner should be prepared to accept the consequences.
That's an extremely good point. Look at the Bulls' recent history as an example.

However, I still think a better fix would have been with the fan survey. If you're in D.1 (or even D.2) anywhere in the world and you're playing every week a 10-50k roster and everyone else is playing 500k+ rosters... Your fans are going to be pretty unhappy, especially if you're accumulating wealth like nothing else, and even more if you've already got millions in the bank. The only fans that would turn up would be religiously loyal ones or fans for the other team.


Absolutely! I think the fan survey is woefully inadequate in terms of the tanking situation and is just merely poor in general. I hope that the next major change is in that area.

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252782.137 in reply to 252782.129
Date: 1/2/2014 8:25:39 PM
Petrosian Club Montevideo
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yeah, well, we all know it sucks that part.

BUT, it's not like it doesn't happen in the real world. If anyone here thinks tanking is some sort of capital sin, you should look at the worst NBA teams that, not only openly tank [besides destroying their roster and fielding an NBDL team, and having a head coach that washes his car like he coaches], ALL have way to good superavits, business-wise. These guys make millions from TV, arena, merchandising, copyright stuff from franchise use, etc, etc. And I don't see the NBA Commissioner designing taxes and algorithms to punish the tank jobs [let's not forget he's an employee of the OWNERS, not some independent figure]. So it's not like you can have a no-tanking league.

I think it's tough to draw the line between forcing hands and to police EVERY LITTLE thing in the game. We all want the game to be more competitive, full of good managers, etc. But can we seriously ask for everything to go our way? I don't know.

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252782.138 in reply to 252782.115
Date: 1/3/2014 2:53:30 AM
Brutus Buckeye
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Last round ONE team in my leage has used. it. 1 out of 16 teams, yes indeed it's almost nobody.

I hope we will see 100% against the bots tonight. That would prove me wrong.


Should always be used against BOTs but I'm to sure we should expect a really high usage in competitive games. So far I have not used it in League games. I will only use it when I am confident what the other team will do, I don't want the negative impact if I am wrong.

I like the feature though because it makes it more difficult for teams to play Look Inside every game. If they do then its easy for me to predict it and get some advantage. I think that's why this feature was introduced.

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Date: 1/3/2014 3:07:54 AM
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I like the feature though because it makes it more difficult for teams to play Look Inside every game. If they do then its easy for me to predict it and get some advantage. I think that's why this feature was introduced.


Its a workaround, that is called "feature". It makes the game more time consuming and complicated. A real solution would be to fix the engine AND the salary formula, that would solve many problems once and for all.

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252782.141 in reply to 252782.137
Date: 1/3/2014 3:37:50 AM
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But the Spurs got punished for not playing three players against the Heat last year. NBA is soooo morally correct in every inch...

The Wizards and other teams tank and tank - and never win titles despite that...

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252782.142 in reply to 252782.141
Date: 1/3/2014 3:52:34 AM
Petrosian Club Montevideo
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I find really absurd the argument of losing THE NBA FINALS to prove their model is flawed. I don't know about you but I'd say 4 rings, 5 Finals and 14 50-win seasons IN A ROW in a span of 14 years is quite successful. And losing an NBA Finals just by a hair, because you missed a free throw [Leonard] or gave up an offensive rebound, well, I think these guys are pretty good.

Tank teams that never win titles fail to do so not because tanking is inherently bad [if it were, nobody would do it], but because of bad overall management or bad luck or both. Managing an NBA team has many aspects where you can screw up all the time [ask the Buffalo Bravez/San Diego-L.A. Clippers and their general manager, maybe one of the worst of all time, Elgin Baylor]. Perhaps your draftee injured often [Greg Oden, Brandon Roy] or he just plain died [Len Bias] or he was a nuclear mushroom disguised as an NBA player [Kwame Brown], etc, etc. And can you blame the Hornets for drafting Kobe Bryant and deliver him to Jerry West and the Lakers? Well, looks like someone invested his 4 draft points/40k per week there and got 5-balls all over the place, and that was Jerry, not the Hornets.

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