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The veteran hasn't sent any such complaint to the franchise front office. He believes in himself and the team around him. He has confidence that this season is NOT out of reach... Feels its the best season and team around him since season 30 which was the 3rd of back to back final appearances... which is big props coming from the quiet constant professional. He does realize that he's 30 and has expressed that his love for the franchise he wants to retire with us but understands carrying a 3 million dollar value could be huge for helping the franchise move forward from the TOmmy era... so it's going to be tough talks and decisions in the next 2 seasons for sure.

He has confidence that this season is NOT out of reach

Your season is reaching for the remote to turn on the TV and watch me in the finals bruh.

I don't know if throwing the word "Choke" out there is the right thing to do. But Tommy has in his own press conferences said that in big games he needs to be sure to do more. Its not enough to just get his 25-30 points and defend, but he has to up his assist and get his teammates who are maybe a little less confident in those kind of games involved and easy shots. But WE have confidence and he has confidence that if the game is close or coming down to the wire the 2 time scoring champion Tommy Lee will find a way to get us over the hump.

But Tommy has said repeatedly that this year's team is the closest to being able to get over the hump as he has been on since season 30. He's been very happy with the moves made. And feels despite the team having quite a few veterans, the added experience at this point is way more valuable than having a team of 21-24 year olds at this point. Once he has begun his decline the team may evaluate moving him to a more mentor seat as the team takes a younger approach.

But i haven't seen Tommy this excited and dedicated to this upcoming playoff season as i have seen in a while.

why did they change the Headlines back to the old format? New format was much more streamlined

I wasn't consulted on it. I liked the new format better too.

I know the GM's read through these forums so i am going to start this here and take it to a few other forums until they respond.... BUT PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!!! Why is that someone who puts a guy on the transfer market can then BID on his own guy? Basically its Bulls*** what it does is allows an owner with enough capital to drive up the price on a guy he's selling and really the only penalty for it is the small 3% he loses on the "agent fees"etc.... Continuing this thought...ITS UNFAIR AND MAKES 0 LOGICAL sense. Someone please explain what functional purpose this has... Basically what it does or says is if you have a lot of money... put one of your guys up for sell for really cheap so he gains immediate attention being a decent enough player and being sold below value. Once near the closing of his bid check what he's selling for and how many user are actually in a "war" to get him... then Power Bid (aka fire a bid 100k more than what they're already bidding) to jump the price of the sell up quickly. If you have enough money continue to do this until you've targeted 1 user with enough money and desire to get in a war with you over your player. Once you've bid the user up enough to make a larger profit then stop bidding and collect. IF the other user gives up then really there's no penalty you basically bought your own player back and only lose the small percentage taken by BB... Seriously if you put a guy on the market for less than you'd really like to make from selling him then OH WELL that's your fault! BB is allowing the seller to penalize the buyer because the seller marked his guy down for too little...

Lets look at this from a real world marketing scenario... If i go to the grocery store and kraft has a new cereal out they put on the shelf for $1.50 and i go to buy it and they realize oh we really would like to make $3.50 when i ring out they can't jump in and give the cashier $3.50 so i now have to pay $3.75 to get the product they originally marked at $1.50...

Lets go to something people more related an auto auction said person selling the car puts the car at what he feels is what he wants from it... Now he could have a "ringer" in the crowd bidding it up (that i am ok with cuz if said ringer accidentally wins auction then oops) but the owner can't jump in and bid on what he just put up for sell. In BB are there some ringers or people with 2 teams doing illegal stuff yes and can BB catch all of them no thats a product of the system. But to ignore the fact that owners are bidding up there own players seems absurd to me...

My conclusion/Suggestion... If an owner would like to do that then FINE allow it, but if they win the bidding war for their own player there should be a Drastic Penalty...

Ok enough of my rant sorry to my league you'll had to read this but hopefully it gets BB GMS attention. because i think this action needs to be regulated better.

Well, unfortunately we can't do anything about that. The one good thing is that if the player is re-bought, his time on the club is reset to zero and it's counted as a transfer in the last 14 weeks, so if the player is re-listed shortly thereafter, the owner will get a lot lower percentage the second time.

With that said, it's permitted currently. I don't like it - I can see letting someone do it to try to rebuy their player if they didn't want to sell them or need them in case another player got injured, or if they set the wrong starting price, but using it as a "set a low price, then drive up bids at the end" tactic sucks. It's one of the reasons I also don't have a lot of sympathy for people who list players low and get 'screwed' if the site goes down - if you want to make sure a player sells for a million, you can list him at that. If you don't and he doesn't, too bad.