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Now you mention this, I was thinking that it would also be good for BB to be more comprehensive about Fan Polls and arena attendance. Let's put this situation: imagine you have your 15k-seats hard-worked arena, you have not developed good draftees, but you have a couple of good free agents long term plus a nice bench, all of which, discounting staff, gives you some 5000 to 10000 surplus every week IF YOU SELL ALL the seats of your arena. Now, if attendance fluctuates about 50k of income depending if you win your last game, or drops too much if you had a bad rival-game or TV-game [perhaps you were aiming for a crucial win in the National Cup], you might be seeing a -40k or a -50k in economic flow with a 75% arena. In this case, the overextension tax IS PENALIZING you not because you're a short-term manager or just a plain bad-not-patient-enough BB player, but because you had a bad schedule, a bad game, maybe even an injury to your star guy, etc, etc.

in this example, not too far from any decent BuzzerBeater manager, you could set a great measure to improve the game have an effect all the contrary. I don't know now how is the algorithm for filling arenas right now in the game engine, but if I was a BB, I would really keep an eye and a tight grip in this relationship between economy, arena's algorithm and overextension tax.

Last edited by petrosian at 12/28/2013 10:12:29 AM

That change was made last season, so it's already a full season in place. Season 25 news;

The last change made is related to the Fan Survey calculation. We have tuned the calculations in the Fan Survey to better reflect the overall performance of your team instead of having as strong an emphasis on your last league game.

I don't understand, if my training exemption is 160k, it means that i can buy more players until spend 160k more of salaries or what? And if i have a player that receives 190k and trade for another receiving 100k i won't pay overextension, right?

It means your expenses can be $160k over the revenue and you won't pay tax on it.

ex. You are $160k over. You lose $160k per week still because you are overspending.
ex. You are $180k over. You lose $180k per week plus 50% on the $20k you are not exempt from. Total loss $190k.
ex. You are $210k over. You lose $210k per week plus 50% on the $50k you are not exempt from. Total loss $235k.

Last edited by Kumiko (CAN U21) at 12/29/2013 4:03:08 PM

I totally missed that last season, thanks for the info.

I just promoted to a higher league so my revenue still reflects the lower league. I will not have a home game or updated merchandize or TV, so it shows that I will be charged OT.

I think the OT should begin in week 2, so that all promoted teams can get that 1st week of increased revenue to balance any player purchases made in week one before the financial update reflects the higher league.

Dislike this penalty!
It favors clubs with a high weekly income. I for one have the smallest gym in the league and indeed one of the lowest incomes. I am under a red line that doesnt exist for a team with more income. Unfair!
Why isnt it let my business to work with a certain weekly negative as long as i´m not in debt?

And, Gentlemen, maybe i am one of the "dumb managers" who arent skilling up their players and are buying cheap players and i´m getting along with that. why am i now punsihed for following my way of managing?

Hmm... maybe because you're wrong?

1) Get a bigger gym
2) Week after week after week of losing money = bankrupt in the end

It's like saying the world is unfair because I earn $50,000 a year but spend $60,000 on jewelry and wonder why the bank, the credit card company, and the collection agency aren't happy with me.