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Until they make it a huge hit to finance when tanking people will do it

The first time I made it to the ABBL, I fought all season to avoid relegation to no avail.

Finished up the season in debt and had to face unhappy fans back in Div 2.

That was 10 seasons ago and there is no doubt that changes to the game have made it a lot easier for teams that are promoting to compete, but it is still not easy.

It would have to be a pretty big change to make tanking a poor option, when it becomes a choice between finishing 8th whilst competing on the salary floor and finishing 6th or 7th and still getting relegated after a season of spending big trying to stay up

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Translation: We have filled your inbox with 6th men and bench warmers. Please let us know if you need help finding the nearest recycle bin!

I tried to dump my guys into the recycle bin but they just kept bouncing off the rim.

I guess you shoulda trained FT then :)

Ha ha ha

Very fickle fans indeed. Its like all BB fans are from Florida.

Very fickle fans indeed. Its like all BB fans are from Florida.

there are "fans" in Florida? :-P

there are "fans" in Florida? :-P

Notice that there is no sign of the "game day prep" options for the first league game of the season.

What should we make of this?

there are "fans" in Florida? :-P

Notice that there is no sign of the "game day prep" options for the first league game of the season.

What should we make of this?

It's probably related to the processing going on now that's preventing people from setting lineups.

And there are certainly fans in Florida, though with so many other things to do here, it's no surprise that unless a team is the hot thing, people would rather just go out to the beach or play golf or boat or whatever. I'm just glad it cooled down a little finally for Christmas, since 82 degrees (about 28 C for the metric folks) is just unfair for winter.

I've followed this topic for quite some time now and I think that there are a lot of good suggestions made by some managers. I doubted for some time to drop my ideas -because I don't see a change that any idea spreaded in this topic is going to make it to the developpers- but I've still decided to give it a shot.

Promotion
* Get basketballwebsites all around the world involved
Advertising cost a lot of money to promote BB to the public. A free alternative for this is creating cooperations with differest basketball(news)sites arount the world. Create a slider with newsitems and give these websites the space to get their news in this sliders, in return these websites have to put a e.g. a BB-banner at their website.

Game development
* Mobile app
Almost everyone uses a smartphone or tablet these days. A mobile app can create so much user friendliness, but it can also make money or keep mananger involved with the game. A free app (with advertising on it and not all features enabled) can make money for BB by adversting revenues, while a 'Pro version' of the app (can be bought for a few dollars and gives access to the whole app -advertising free-) makes money of sales. The app could also alert managers when a match begins, a match has ended, remind the manager when he/she hasn't been active for X days etc.

* Add an extra match per week
One of the largest discussions in this topic is adding extra games per week to BB. I personally think it is a good idea to add one extra game per week. (On the day with the least server intensity). This could either be the idea of a Division Cup or a Regional cup. Adding this feauture can give managers who play a season 'for the show' (with no changes of getting far in the national cup or play-offs) an opportunity at playing games with some tension .

* New teams in the lowest division
An idea I read a couple of times in this topic. Can't miss in my post, doesn't need much explanation I think...

Revenues
* Upgrade the Supporter-feature
Make the Supporter-feature more interesting for managers, make them feel like paying is giving them a better game experience, though it may not affect the change to win a game etc. Here's a small list of Supporter-features I think make it more attractive to buy Supporter:
- Choosing teamcolours
- Choosing teamclothes
- Having a 'second' team, that competes in a special youth competition.This would give Supporters the chance to see how good their young players (U21? U23? U25?) are compared to other Supporters. This last idea needs a lot of detailling, but might be an interesting feature...
- ...

Hope my post is a positive addition to this topic,
Stefan