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I believe there is a such thing as peak hours.

No question about it, but are you fixated on it?

No, I thought not.

It seems you are advocating for more lenient FA rules with lower salary as a threshold, that may happen relatively soon. For information, FA rules with higher salary threshold was also asked by users in the past.

That is great news! I hope "relatively soon" is very soon.

Of course, higher level managers who fear up and coming mid-level and new teams would advocate for higher FA salary thresholds for obvious reasons, but that would not be good for the game.

I'm not following you here. Explain to me why I'm not fixated on it.

You don't think about it night and day. You don't dream about it when you sleep. You don't drag it into every conversation about other topics. Etc.

Player A:

10 5
15 11
12 11
10 11
6 7

Position: PG
TSP: 98
Salary: 21.000$

Player B:

17 11
6 13
15 8
3 4
5 5

Position: SF
TSP: 87
Salary: 26.500$

I think we all know who's more useful. Heck, I could use Player A in my II division. But Player A will be lost forever if fired/botified and Player B will be in TL.

Another example for a big guy:

11 5
8 11
12 9
6 15
12 9

Position: PF
TSP: 98
Salary: 29.000$

A marvelous player for any outside oriented team. Too bad he'll never be a FA, because his salary isn't suitable for it. On the contrary this guy:

4 3
1 2
3 2
14 12
14 5

Position: C
TSP: 60
Salary: 37.500$

...he'll be available as a FA...

My proposal for Free Agents is to take into account skill points. There are lots of players that are lost that would be extremely useful to a range of teams from DV to DII. That would relieve the market A LOT. Current system is fine for a 40-50k userbase. But these days are long gone and BB needs to adapt.

This would help many newcomers to buy a couple of older, yet useful and not salary inflated players. With another proposal that I have, to let newcomers train with an increased rate in training (applied ONLY in their generated players, not the ones they buy and ONLY for their first 2-3 seasons), I think more players will be attached in BB and the market will be stable again.

That's because you don't have to...

I'm not following you here.

A fixation is an obsession. It's not healthy. It isn't just thinking constructively about something, it is compulsively dwelling on it. Kind of like preacherman's incessant ad hominem attacks on the GM's and others -- not healthy either.

Last edited by Mike Franks at 3/16/2015 12:52:47 AM

A fixation is an obsession. It's not healthy.

Yeah kinda like the guy who has a team of uncles and grandpas and who has never trained in his BB career, but complains at every possible chance at the current training system. Whoopdeedoo. Vote a) for coherence or b) for hypocrisy.

Kind of like preacherman's incessant ad hominem attacks on the specific users -- not healthy either.

There fixed it for you so that you can say it to the mirror when you wake up in the morning!

Last edited by Lemonshine at 3/16/2015 7:13:12 AM

Rec'd for truth.

I have seen 21yo MVP PF trainees with 15.2k salary going to waste. Choosing a policy because it's just simple to enact is just dumb, especially in an environment where the userbase has shrunk significantly and the market hasn't stabilised yet (i.e. there is a smaller market for players at all levels, but especially for mid and lower salary ones because there is no free agency for them).

When the userbase grows, it makes sense to reduce the FA influx to the market so that it doesn't deflate the transfer market too much (although you can make a case that this should be done by changing the way the starting price is calculated and not how free agents are selected), but when the userbase shrinks, you have to lower the limits to avoid hyperinflation (which is what we've seen in the last several seasons).

Last edited by Lemonshine at 3/16/2015 10:07:28 AM