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Thank you for the welcomes! I feel all warm and bubbly inside. I also appreciate no one caring enough about my team for me to be their rival, but it looks to be that way with all the promotees. I'm not sure why my WR didn't go up by much, but those have never made much sense to me anyway.

Apparently this past economic update wasn't technically the first week of this season since I paid quite a hefty Overextension Tax because I rescued T-Mac from being shipped out-of-country on Sunday before the update.

Couldn't find the listing in the manual so this is from the news page:

“Overextension Tax.” With this ruling, teams should try to keep their player salaries in line with their weekly income -- if you start overspending, you’ll be hit with a tax on the extra spend. This applies only to the salary your players have when they are acquired -- if you train your players and their salaries increase as a result, you won’t be responsible for this increase. To make the implementation more gradual, all current teams will have an extra training exemption, and most teams will not be affected at all by the overextension. Additionally, this rule will not be applied during the first 4 weeks for new teams and on the first week of each season for all teams.

So I can safely assume there will be no overextension tax next week?

Not sure how I got stuck with you as a rival. "Hey let's give the new guy with a shitty team the defending champ as a rival! HA!"

No way man, I'm not going to fall for that "I'm the new guy" trick. As soon I let my guard down, you and your team are going to run my team off the court. :)

You clearly have me mistaken for a competent manager.

I could always give you goo goo eyes. No homo of course.

Or maybe a slap on the ass. With or without a "good game", totally your choice.

I will add it's cool to see someone post in the forum after the 9 pm rerun of the "Golden Girls". Being 4 hours behind eastern time, don't see that often.

i want to commend you for the well-written rant about the proposed changes to our lineup selections.

i gotta read these notices more carefully -- here i thought the problem was the blank lineup that led to walkovers and screwed up the other team's minutes. that was a problem worth solving. instead, this new idea does not address it, but instead is working on taking away a very valuable option, especially at this level.

in addition to the complication of managing GS, important at any level, this league has some very clever coaches. i can think of two games where surprising lineups were a key to victory -- TKI taking down Dog River and a game In Your Face beat me, where he had matchups i couldn't stop. my experience taught me to be very wary of assigning player X a position when the other team may well be starting his all-star PG at PF and running an Inside Isolation. blank lineups gave me the confidence i wouldn't get caught. now that option is, not just disappearing, but will be gone.

ultimately, i can live with it if they give us a chance to handle minutes during the game. teams that have veterans tend to have players with high stamina, and the choices that will be left to us will force us, as it stands right now, to sacrifice several wins a year.

Yuck likes to start the season with a CT. :)

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Pretty sure I was three or four beers in when I wrote that, possibly sitting on the throne, and using my phone. So ignore the sausage finger typos and lack of paragraph separation of thoughts but I think I covered most of my feelings on one of the least thought out implementations since I have played this game.

I did fail to mention that they are going to stick this stupid testing on the private leagues, probably during the middle of a private league season. There is zero regard for some private leagues that might actually be competitive. Do they really assume EVERYBODY that participates in private leagues do so for the sheer joy of testing tactics? I have seen at least a dozen good ideas suggested and this was really next on the list?

Ah, its going to be one of those seasons.....first injury of the year.

Just noticed that I might be the first ever to have the same rival twice in one season! EDH Wolves and EDH Wolves II in Utopia.
I just made it into the record books!

Pretty sure I was three or four beers in when I wrote that, possibly sitting on the throne, and using my phone. So ignore the sausage finger typos and lack of paragraph separation of thoughts but I think I covered most of my feelings on one of the least thought out implementations since I have played this game.

I went off a little bit in that thread too. Really poorly done by the dev team. I'm okay with unilateral decisions if they have stuff they think they have to do for the good of the game, or want to do to move towards their vision, but posting a thread about some half-assed "check if we did this bad thing right or not" "feature" is pretty disappointing. Especially when they get all touchy about people giving opinions... in a forum thread. Duh?

I haven't gone back into the thread since I posted in it.