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That's not it. I think they are just bored of reading your posts;)

That's not it. I think they are just bored of reading your posts;)

Plausible hypothesis

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One objective that the GMS have been able to deliver on which has been a massive improvement for the game IMO, is that I believe its a lot easier for a team to promote up a division and be competitive.

10 seasons ago when I first entered the ABBL it was really tough to stay up that first season.

The cap on size of arenas and a fall in the cost of players has made the step up in divisions a lot easier and in Australia we had a team win the ABBL championship in their first season in Div 1, plus a few teams who have gone from Div 3 to Div 2 have also won at their new level in their first season.

So whilst many individuals have repeatedlt bagged the creators of this game in this thread, I believe some credit should also go to them as I recall it being a stated objective that they would try to make the step up in Divisions easier.



Last edited by Sid Vicious at 12/8/2013 7:07:40 AM

What follows probably contradicts in part my previous post

It has been a trend in Australia in recent seasons that many capable experienced Division One Managers have opted out of competing in the ABBL to instead focus on training young Aussie players in Divs 2 or 3.

Whilst it is s strength of this game that it allows many strategies to be succesful to enable Managers to climb up through the Divisions, it is my opinion that the cheap prices of ageing 100K plus salaried players, has encouraged many Managers to engage in the "less enjoyable and sustainable" strategy of buying geriatrics, rather than the more engaging and rewarding but sadly more time consuming and expensive strategy of training players up.

Managers are obviously going to be less attached to players that they buy in rather than those that they train up, so it follows that Managers are going to be less attached to a game where they just buy in players, rather than a game where they spend seasons training players who they build up attachments to.

So I suggest that the game evolves a little bit backwards to the state it used to be in, where the training of players, "strategy" is a more obviously a better choice than the buying in of "geriatrics strategy"

Thus, we should introduce the minimum transfer value.

One interesting thing. Will the market still be full of good players after two-three seasons? If less and less managers choose to train, so those, who still do it will be rewarded more. Prices in the market will go up and training will become profitable again.

Of cource, we have to assume that number of managers will become stable sooner or later.

You're GM and you're "active" on the forum, I've checked right now, Forrest, Mark and Charles left the game?
So only Marin and Patrick are still here as BB?

Merci, cause I've checked Charles and Mark "old teams" and they should have bot now. Just for info, thanks again

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/197317/players.aspx

Talking about poor starting rosters. Sure this will not be a big issue with only 1 other real team in the country but he has nothing worth training at all. Nothing......

This is a huge deal for a new team. Having a guy or 2 who you can make a long term part of your side it Vital to keeping new players IMO. If I knew this guy I would suggest let the team go bot and sign up again in the hope of getting a decent player.