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Hi Ballan,

At this stage of the season with your team sitting in 7th.
You really have no hope of winning over all and promoting to div 3.
I've just noticed you bought 2 middle ages pointguards. So I'm a little late in giving advice because I would have strongly recommeneded against those purchases.
I'd recommend selling them for a profit if you can, because There's no point you spending more money than you need to.
I'd suggest focus on the draft for this season, save all your money for next season and start then.
The starting money you do have, is it $500k? I'd spend on Scouting (maybe $10k week / 2 points) and your arena. and I would now look to buy a level 4 (advanced) Trainer with as cheap of a salary as possible, like under $15k.

For this season, unfortunately you don't REALLY have any great training prospects, but I would spend the last of the season training Ranko Dosen and Paul Bertram Steiert. probably train Single positon Pressure and try to get some decent Outside Defence going. Then hopefully try to draft a young gun aussie and work towards training an U21 representative.


As for your idea about raising ticket prices.
You're currently in 7th spot in the Big 8 and your team has only won 1 game (albeit before you took over).
Your attendance will be poor until you start winning some games, win your TV games and your Rivalry games, that will help.
Having MORE seats allows you to keep the ticket prices LOW so that people will actually consider it a good price.
Think about it from a human standpoint, My local team sucks this season, they're really not doing too well, If I had nothing else to do I'd probably go along and watch the odd game, but OMG their ticket prices are a bit too high and its not worth going. If they lowered their prices I'd probably be like "eh it's only $8, beats watching TV again I guess"
So in your position (and in Div4 really) you can't raise ticket prices very high anyways as people just wont come along.

In Summation, Mickyster was right, add more seats... bit by bit. I've been told never do an upgrade that will take longer than 7 days at a time, as you could miss out on the extra little bit of revenue by a couple days and have to wait 2 weeks to see a return on investment.

Good luck

OH.... PS.

Manage your game shape and enthusiasm.
Try to make sure your players play BETWEEN 48 and 80 minutes each WEEK. Try to get your starting 5 to PROFICIENT game shape.
AND You should TIE all your games from now on so that you have a chance to maybe win the relegation battle (not that it REALLY matters) but it will help attendance a little next season if you don't lose the relegation battle.

Last edited by King Arthur at 10/3/2012 10:48:14 PM

Yea I only started with 300k! Now she all gone! Do these scouting points have to be used straight away?? Or can you save them for another year??

You can save them for the end of next season.
But obviously, the lower you finish on the table, the more likely you are to get your number 1/2/3 preference Draftees.

cheers!

Just to catch up on the season! Who do we all think are going to win this season?? Anyone apart from me just gunna go for a good draft pick??

What about the upcoming inter conference?? Just looking seems to me that the red teams are a little stronger! But only time will tell? Is this a good way to tell the difference between red n blue?? Or is it going to be more about depth!! Anyone been here for a couple seasons?? I'm just wondering how hard it actually is to promote??

Anyone left in the country tournament??

Anyone else got a really crappy team?? Cause mine sucks!! HahA

Well right now Statesmen are sitting pretty, undefeated and not looking likely to drop more than maybe 1 game for the rest of the season.

I'm hoping to promote this season, which just means I need to beat the aforementioned Statesmen to make the Grand Final playoffs. I'm quietly confident that I can achieve this.
My 2 big trainees are already prepared for Div 3, and I'm expecting Julien to make the French U21 by seasons end.
I can't really see any other teams/managers training as seriously as I am?
happy to be corrected.

I started my season very slowly with the intention to just train and float around and lose. however my 2 trainees were dominating and I kept winning games, so now I may aswell try to win it.
I've bought a new PG, though I don't remember ever bidding $460k for him, lol.
I'll see how the rest of the season pans out, but I have room to buy another guard/SF to ensure I get the promotion.

All-star game isn't a true reflection of red/blue coz if you look at past seasons games, it's just OFFENCE OFFENCE OFFENCE.
just like NBA all stars, noone defends properly.

this game is insane!!

my first game and it is already into double OT. I thought I was going to get smashed!

I lost!

Oh...

1 point loss in OT. This game has officially got me hooked

Wow. What a start. Almost beat third place. :)

You try to stay in 7th if you can and get the best draft pick possible... AND try to win the relegation battle.

I understand what your saying but I think I'm just going to try n win every game. I reckon if I tank then ill probably lose interest in the game.

Ok well obviously you're free to play how you want :)
I hope you can keep interest.
I just know this game is more about LONG TERM strategy instead of instant gratification :)

Yeh long term is a good thing. But most the comp is bots so moving a couple of spots up will not hurt his draft chance.
If you can get to 5th is means you don't play any relegation playoffs which means you don't pay for your players for a couple of weeks. Which can help cash wise.

But make sure you have a look at the levels of Div 3 teams and have enough cash and good players to stay up if you can once you do. If you are not ready (which I was not 1st time) you will struggle to keep up.