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And reason for LI dominance is more salary efficient players.
- pg,sg,sf with high od, driving, jump range and inside shots
If you try to build outside oriented team, it will cost salary wise way more at least if you would like to get similar FG% than in LI.

That's not completely true:

12 8
10 12
12 9
6 18
16 11

Perfect PF for outside tactics, costs only 66k (perfectly viable for every II team), needs Superstar potential only, defends every single LI guy and can score a lot. Skills may vary if you want more or less salary.

Yes, you can cut costs on inside attack, but your outside attack guards will then cost more than double compared to inside guards. Also FG% will be much lower in outside tactics.

50% in 2pts = 100 P.P. 100
33% in 3pts = 100 P.P. 100

Why do I say that? Because a balanced game should take that into account. A 16 JS/14 OD can't be the same as 16 IS/14 ID difference, because same % would mean more points in 3pts shots. Then everyone would play outside tactics. A sacrifice had to be made and I'm with the devs on this.

About the OET:

I give you my example. 3 seasons ago i descended from NL to 2nd division. I sold all my best and most expensive players and bought others that i could afford, before the first league game was played. Took a huge blow, because i had to sell players that i worked hard to train for several seasons for half the price they cost me. And i actually took the time to make my budget on paper. So this was my plan:
I made plans, according to my incomings, to be about neutral in my weekly budget
I expected 50k profit while stil on cup, about 0 when knocked out (i average 6-7 cup games per season - 300-350k profit)
Saved 300k for any unexpected problems - i was planing to spend it later on a coach

This is what i got:
My attendences never reached the values of my previous 2nd division season, despite having more supporters and more seats - apparently, fan spirit never recovers from last season defeats, even if you have 5 defeats all season and are leader of your league
As a consequence, i got about 20-30k loss a week, which went to about 55k loss with that tax. Suddenly, my weekly budget was on red, despite the fact i should be profiting with the cup game!
As soon as i was knocked out of the cup, i had to sell 2 players, and replacing with 3 "thrash minutes players".

I think i did a good financial management of my team. Unexpected income loss lead me to a small financial loss, easily sustained by my savings. OET put my finances in real danger!

I don't think I did anything wrong or unethical or was trying to "buy championships". I was trying to adjust to the financial catastrophe of descending division and was very penalized by this tax. I think this tax may avoid people from "buying championships" (whatever that is, for maybe more than 10 seasons i don't have any draft players making it to be important players, so they are all bought!), but is also an excellent way to fuck teams that are through team difficulties, like descending division or having a losing streak.

I fail to see how is it fair, or why should there be a tax for people who happen to have bad results. And I assure you those are a lot more than those trying to "buy championships".

Basketball is not meant to be fair; but basketball simulation games are meant to simulate real life

Last edited by zempt at 9/26/2014 2:20:10 PM

That not the issue that be making div 3. wrong is wrong and BB staff is wrong. Not only did a lot lose millions, BB staff don't give dambt about it.

The thing that burn me up the most, is they don't want to do anything to better the game for real, just adding a lot of political safe moves to please a few, that not doing a dampt thing for anybody, why does outside guard cost 2 times as much a LI guard. But the thing is Li managers have pricey guard because they can afford them and to nullify the outside guard.. Outside shooting teams don't have anything to nullify the inside big, beyond defense. Now some want to get rid of Gs , Now tell me, what you got?

I have done very good work wih my pf and built a European basketball type of Pf.. I have all the detail down. I have built a center that can shoot 3pters as well in the past. I will do it again.

My pf has made almost 400 3pts in his career. To me that's a testament of a outside shooting team and how to beat LI. To me, that what I'm going to continue to do. I had a home grown starting team for 11 season. I didn't buy many players so don't tell if I knew how manage my team. I have done more with less. playoffs every season .iIbeen on the game 12 season strong. This is the 1st season ever because I refuse to even play in BB and participate in the playoffs..


Last edited by Mr. Glass at 9/26/2014 3:41:29 PM

So I know very well about how to build a team for outside offense and what it does to the salary of your players. You can get an awesome defensive big built for outside offense that has a 70k salary and that will perform well in the top division.

I absolutely concur. I've got guys that are a step down from yours in quality for sure, but can defend competitively against NBBA caliber teams and occasionally even score (either on drives against zones or on jumpers/threes mostly against man defense). My deficiency right now is offense, because my guards are simply not at the caliber needed to carry an outside offense and until my recent purchase, who is still injured, I didn't have a real inside threat.

But whether it's LI or outside, it's quite possible to build a strong team by custom building the off position players (guards for inside team / bigs for outside) and then trying to fill the other spots with commodity players from the TL. The advantage for LI is that it's much easier to find players built for that, but the difference between "difficult to do" and "can't be done" is what makes the game worth playing.