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Why? because he was U21 trainer, he will stand for NT trainer in future and he prefer self-training. :-)

ok, best domestic players are more interesting than best international best player. but why average domestic players are more interesting than best international player? do you mean it is ok?

Hostivar was daytrader too, but daytrading isn´t usable today. Hostivar is happy because he drafted good players within the first seasons, and he trained him. I did some mistakes (maybe purchase of Ikstens with his salary), but it is not my mistake that I sold Sehnal in 3.season, I didn´t know that domestic players will advantaged in 10.season.

I added a prominent French guard to my roster.

I'm guessing this had a part in it - not the whole thing, a part.

Well sorry if ive misunderstood but are you suggesting that buying a new great player has an adverse effect on merchandise? Is purchasing someone now 'confusing' our fans? Maybe my fans took back the shirts they bought last week and demanded newer ones with my new players name OR perhaps they understand when i change the player numbers (supporters only!) and then dont spend any money thinking I might give someone else the number 2 shirt next week OR.... perhaps I should stick to buying players with 3-4 letters in their family name so that the jerseys with these sell faster than those with longer names!!

Dunno if that is true of Basketball shirts but in England if you want 'Wright Phillips' you will end up a lot worse off than buying the same shirt with 'Jo' on the back :D

Hey its a fun thread and at this stage of the game 7 seasons in, its a welcome change.... i know i wouldnt have the same performance with domestic players over the ones I've chosen to buy. As I've come to learn, the lower TV money and now merchandise is offset in other ways....its less than 10days old and some are crying out for a formula.... anyone thats played BB long enough knows that this isnt going to happen..... lets keep comparing results and see if we can figure it out quicker than it takes an NT player to pop a level of experience (still unknown)

I think that we mainly are in agreement with each other.

I do not say that increased prices for players must be a problem. Just think that it is a pattern that is currently occuring. Will be a problem if new managers will have to little money to buy any decent player and this could be the case if they are in big disadvantageous in terms of merchandise and other incomes. But not saying that it is a "threat" for lower division teams.

You can have wealth by simply keep improving your lineup frequently but not frequently enough to be daytrading punishments. Buying two to three new players every season with $100k salary would be enough to be wealthy but almost broken economically.

"That's assuming that getting there had nothing to do with your strategical and tactical skill, which is a questionable statement, at the least."

Getting success might be by impressive coaching and strategical planning. My comment was just that you should not benefit from past successes too long time. And if you got very much money you will be able to always compete for the absolutely best players. Then it won't help that teams with less resources are doing everything correct both in terms of training, tactics and economical planning. And I am definitely not hinting that this is currently the case because that is beyond my knowledge. But this reply was mainly directed to bic that seems to prefer that successful teams should have very good rewards in terms of money. If they got similar rewards as Real Madrid, Barcelona and so on it might take extremely many seasons before they could be challenged by other teams even if they make many huge mistakes.

I think Juicepat's post was a joke.

The BB's explicitly told us at least two seasons ago that domestic players would be advantageous to your team. You bought Japan's best player but have since sold him. Whoops. Frydeck didn't buy any domestic players and is now crying about it.

Crying over 45k a week, which is not enough to pay half a week's salary for players on teams like yours and/or BS Crydek, is ridiculous. You grossed roughly 800000 last week. Frydek grossed roughly 700000. I don't think it's that big of a problem, especially in light of two things. A) The developers are trying to create an environment where parity is at least a pipe dream and your two teams (and I do not mean to lump you into the same category of single-minded whining as we are seeing from Bik_76) are in the top .0006% of the teams which play this game.
I am going to buy a new level 7 PR guy and see how my merchandise sales change. I will report back when I have some tangible data.

Edited to remove poor joke and to adjust month to week.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 9/23/2009 10:14:46 AM

no not neccesarily, in fact the rules state that how much you get for a domestic player is a function of his skill as well... equal skilled players you are gonna get more for a domestic, but at some point the superstar foreigner will add enough to the team's overall ability/fan spirit etc to be worth more than the domestic. Maybe we don't have that tradeoff point in the right spot, but i think the principle is correct.

Crying over 30k a month

Every dollar counts and is very important. And he crying not for 30k a month, but 45k a week.

Crydek didn't buy any domestic players and is now crying about it.

You don't have letter "F" in your keyboard or it's bad joke crying/Crydek? There were hardly any suitable czech players in last 2 seasons.