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Your tactic is a good one if you are one of the weakest in the league. However this season still has 12 games to go and you still haven't played the Great 8's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ranked team. I also wonder why you automatically assume you will need this strategy to even remain in Div III. You seem very confident in your team now, but if they promote you'll be scared of relegation? It just doesn't made alot of sense to me.

Not that I think your team is bad, because you do have a solid shot at winning. Maybe you have some big moves you are going to make right before playoffs which will ensure your victory. I just think its a little preemptive, and fellow leaguemates who are in contention for the championship will also make some big moves (especially if they see this).

You seem to have a good knowledge of the game, and that strategy would work if worst comes to worse although I would go about it as GM-somdetsfinest stated above. I have no doubt that you wouldn't relegate from D.III.

with such rhythm, you will be weaker then the team, who be aware of their enthusiam quite fast. But playing some ct during the season could be wise, but you should way till you see the schedule and your opponent before you plan it.

1. Don't CT every 3rd game, however definitely TIE as much as possible including nearly all of your road games. Being at home is really big in this game... buy a PR guy with the Crowd Involvement specialty and try to pick up as many winnable home games as possible.

2. Don't spend all of your ~$2M on one guy... buy 2-3 20-25k players if possible. You have the best team in your league but your IV league is extremely weak relative to most other IVs and is obviously far behind every III in terms of talent. I've seen example after example of good depth beating 1 unbelievable player so I'd spread your resources around as much as you can.

3. Good arena upgrade... I might build a couple more seats if you do promote though.

There are several problems here:

1. Never assume you are going to promote. Plenty of teams save money all season just to buy players a week before playoffs and get a huge boost in player skill

2. Never assume cup income is given. Whats to say you aren't matched against a division 1 team in your first round? Treat cup income as a bonus rather than an expected norm.

3. 6 wins might do it for some leagues while 2 wins might do it in another. Its hard to say.There is variation even between D3 leagues in terms of how competitive it is. You wouldn't know how tough the league is until you actually make it there cause if you promote you could end up in one of the 16 D3 leagues.

4. You need to scout your opponents once you make it to your league. Assuming a TIE, TIE, CT pattern simply won't cut it. Your enthusiasm will not recover in time. A lot also depends on the schedule of when you are facing your opponents. Its fine to TIE against a top team but it would be foolish to TIE when you have 2 beatable opponents in a given week.

With all that said, its good to have a plan but budgetting for something like this can only happen when a new season is upon you. Your plan is full of contingencies where it would all be pointless if you don't even promote in the first place. Focus on promotion first. Then worry about staying alive once you're there.

Last edited by Monkeybiz at 5/30/2011 10:52:07 PM

Okay here is a few ideas
1. confirm if there is anyone becoming bot, then you don't have to worry automatic regulation
2. know your power and your opponent's before u decide weather u really want to be seeded
3. worry about TV, rival, cup, RL and schedule before u decide about enthusiasm because money is always more important
4. coach and player development
5. lottery

I think that away games are more important because if you win them then fans will show up at your next game, which will be at home.

Being at home gives your team an on-court bonus. Winning away give your team a higher attendance at home the next game.

I dont know if the math works for this. When you first start your Enthusiasm will be at 5. So you play TIE 2 gamse and your ent would go 5x1.3=6.5 x 1.3 = 8.45 And then you CT and your ent is halved = 4.225
I haven't taken into consideration that sinks in between matches. By next week it will be down to 3.5 after the same schedule. Week after that 3.0 aso aso.
Your team will start to play worse and worse for every week that goes by
The idea is good but you would probably need to think it over again before your there.

I understood it should go up back to 5. So 4.225 would be like 4.85 the next day and so on..

You are right, whenever your enthusiasm is below 5 after a game, it will increase between matches trying to get back up to 5. However, the calculations done were correct and I don't know how quickly enth. rises when is below 5 so maybe you could face some matches with less enth. than 5 and therefore, finally face some games where you want to go CT with less accumulated enth. than you expected.