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258224.16 in reply to 258224.15
Date: 4/24/2014 11:51:43 PM
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The cup was my biggest disappointment so far for the season.

In part, I did not have a handle on my team and I did not have the roster setup yet. Otherwise, It's a huge cash influx for the winners.


I have liked dabbling in a bunch of different things. I've done a little daytrading and made some extra cash (not nearly as much as the Chinese guy in my league, I wish he would share some tips). I have some older guys with some different salary ranges that should be able to last a couple season. I have some trainees and plans to replace the older guys when they become too geriatric to play.

The future may be awkward. What is D4 going to look like once you take out the top 256 teams? In one year when everyones Utopia runs out...will all of the remaining D4 teams just disappear?

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258224.17 in reply to 258224.16
Date: 5/14/2014 2:48:26 AM
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This is slightly off topic, but it is still Utopia related.
I can say that the dream of having a 100% homegrown team has been actualized, and dang, my team is actually worse than I thought it would be, and I imagined it being pretty darn bad.
Still, it's kind of fun figuring out what to train and managing minutes, especially when 5 of my top 6 players are also trainees.
I get some fairly 'okay' performance from some seriously awful players at times, which has to do with a lot of the competition still having some original players as well, but nevertheless, that is cool to see. A couple of my best players are Awful and worse on FT's, which is simply brutal.
The salary floor not hitting yet has been helpful for my finances, but once it does, and once I demote (and get hit with the attendance penalty next season), it's going to be a different story.

Is anyone else trying out a homegrown team, as in ZERO player transfers (besides selling)?

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258224.18 in reply to 258224.17
Date: 5/14/2014 2:31:33 PM
Ratu BK
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Is anyone else trying out a homegrown team, as in ZERO player transfers (besides selling)?


Yep... think there´s eight of us in Sweden, we got a private league for home-growers and its pretty ok. Since my main team isnt getting many pops, home-growing has made the friday updates much more fun for me :) Its also possible to win some games in my league, which probably adds up to it not being very good, but so far I think Utopia is a positive surprise in my view. I see a challenge next season with the salary floor like you say.. but its the same for all home-growers. Quality comes with a cost. (y)

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258224.19 in reply to 258224.18
Date: 5/14/2014 3:43:40 PM
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It's going to be quite fun in the coming seasons, shifting training focus from current players to the new crop of rookies.
My best current player has Benchwarmer potential. He's basically capped out already, but he'll be in my lineup for a couple seasons at least before he is relegated to reserve status and then sold for a couple grand.

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258224.20 in reply to 258224.19
Date: 5/14/2014 4:22:14 PM
Ratu BK
SBBL
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If Buzzerbeater continues to grow (ehem...) he´d sell for tens of thousands... :D

My main problem is, I cant do the tanking tactics in order to get the high draft pick. Its demoralizing to intentionally loose and Id probably stop logging in... which means I´ll end up with some starter potential 19-year old as trainee.

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258224.21 in reply to 258224.20
Date: 5/14/2014 4:35:10 PM
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Sadly, my 2-10 record comes with me playing nearly my best lineup for most of those games, but luckily there are a couple of teams I've been able to take down. My league is pretty competitive, where most teams have bolstered themselves with several $10K+ ballers.

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258224.22 in reply to 258224.17
Date: 5/29/2014 5:03:45 PM
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i wanted to do all homegrown, but i couldn't deal with the absence of any future. of my original squad, i kept about four or five, trainees with quite limited potential, and bought cheap (and very modestly talented) Utopians off the TL aged between 24 and 28 or so. these imports are my starters. i spent less than $37,000 to do this.

i would have thought this is not the recipe for success, but somehow i am only a game behind the conference leader with a bunch of home games against key opponents the last third of the season. my success says a lot about my league, i guess.

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258224.23 in reply to 258224.2
Date: 5/29/2014 5:16:42 PM
Arizona Desert Storm
III.3
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. If someone can show me one, that would be nice. With 70+ leagues, there should be some with 50+, 100+ and 150+ messages.

It seems like Utopia managers are active for their teams, but not that much on the forum, at least from my point of view.


In my league there hasn't been one single post.

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258224.24 in reply to 258224.23
Date: 5/29/2014 9:12:03 PM
Koopasaurus
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Wow thats alarming...

It just goes to show people are not really interested in getting to know each other.

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258224.26 in reply to 258224.25
Date: 5/30/2014 2:46:01 AM
Stavanger Titans
III.6
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In my opinion, the main problem is the different languages in the league. And often people are not willing to to communicate in a language which is understandable (preferable english). And it is not great fun to put everything in Google translator to understand other guys, just to see that they are just interested or able to write with other nationalities.

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