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Devore "The Devourer" with the +5 killed me. After I saw how it was going I was hoping that your coach would just leave Sumanas in, without him fouling out, and maybe he misses a couple more. I bought a ringer before the game but I confused him with a really crappy draft pick that I was lucky didn't get onto the floor at SG, or Navarro would have probably gone off for a few minutes too

Devore's 4 points in 2 minutes were literally the difference. I wasn't happy when the coach put him in but it worked out.

I got lucky with Sumanas last night, I forgot that 27 year olds only need 40 mins for training and start getting exhausted during games. Shouldn't have set him to play all 48

So much for the full restart in D3! 2 $1M+ purchases by NY Nugs and we now have 6 very competitive teams in the Great 8 fighting for 4 spots... cant take any games off if you want to make the playoffs

I decided to go all out before the demise of BuzzerBeater with the new owners /s

...I’m a bit more worried that your scorer is matched up against my C in M2M…

^---I hate this feeling. It's a factor.

It just barely worked, Dogana was the only guy who could score for me tonight

Tough break at the end for you, BB should really implement modern foul bonus rules where 2 fouls in the last 2 minutes are FTs.

Did a bit of financial analysis on the league. I compared avg gate receipts and current salary by team, and then used the league averages for merch/staff/infra/scouting, along with team-by-team adjustments for merch based on who is likely to have better or worse merch than the league average. It left me with some interesting takeaways and a big question about the sustainability of the top team in each conference...

The league on aggregate is in a better position financially this season than last. Last season, the league in totality was consistently running a deficit and I estimated that 8 of 16 teams were negative net income per week. That is likely in the 5-6 range this season, with fewer teams losing 50K+ a week.

There look to be 2 teams that are running drastic deficits: Alaska Alphas and NY Nugs. I estimate they are both losing around 70-100K a week depending on how high their merch is and how cheap they are going on staff/scouting. Are they prepared to lose another 500K+ the rest of the season to try and promote?? Looks like it given Alaska just upgraded to a more expensive big... but at least one of them will be left unsatisfied by the end of the season

EBW is killing us with his arena. Somehow he is racking up 400K a game which is closer to NBBA gate receipts than it is to a standard D2 gate receipt. Even though his team cracks 500K salary, he is comfortably making profit every week, I estimate ~50K. The promo bonus is treating him well, and he must have a good PR manager or a TV/Radio station.

Our 3 tanking teams (Finisher, Forza, Goofily) are comfortably making 100K+ a week, a few may even be at 150K+. Serene Wolves looks to be joining them after selling off 3 starters with 2 more on the TL.

White Mambas and EDH Wolves are both negative weekly profit while being more likely to be an underdog in a relegation series vs making the playoffs. I'd guess both will make some changes at some point, whether it is a full tank like Serene Wolves or just selling off 1 piece to reduce the wage bill.