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Well first if you say half the suggestions that aren't Pini's are yours that will still be miniscule as Pini seems to open about 10 a week. Just kidding. There was no dig at you intended.

I will take a close look at Crazyeye later and see how well he has done with the 2-3, it would be awesome if he cn make it work but most threads that have claimed success indicate the need for a team very strong in shot blocking and you know the difference in both salary and availability between big men with triple marvellous primaries and strong SB and those with quadruple marvellous.

Yes I agree there is some irony in that the current 5th place problem was an attempt to fix the horrible previous 5th place issue where it was so much worse than 6th.

Please don't blame the tankers for everything or anything. I have been here since season 10 but for the first time ever I am tanking this season. I am the youngest team ever to make the ABBL and really had almost no chance to stay up so rather than fight and end up with nothing at the end of the season I made the strategic decision to tank. But it is all luck. If I had been in the Big 8 I would have fought.

I think you underestimate how much you gain by tanking. I was making over $500k a week PROFIT including cup money early on, now my fans are less enthusiastic and I have bought some players for next season but I still expect to make about $7,000,000 profit overall this season including promotion money. It also let me build my arena like crazy and train an 18 year old, 20 year old and 22 year old with no fear of losing games. If I had different players I could have done the out of position training which is even harder. On the other hand any players you hang onto depreciate which is something important to factor in, a more rutlesss player would have sold them all and kept cash but I like my old core of Oliver, Vallo and Mu and hope to keep them forever.

The game is the best it is great, but I think it can be better and I don't like seeing 10,000 players leave while it looks like little is being done to address real or imagined greviences. Even an imagined one needs a real response.

With regard to your third last paragraph which came across in a very different tone, quite negative and critical actually, you are confusing me with someone else and I know who.

Thanks for the detailed response.

The GMs telling you that 2-3 works are not telling it because of any conspiracy but because their experience. Crazyeye is a perfect example. He´s not defending the 2-3 because he HAS to, he´s making a point about using the 2-3 "in the right way", and honestly, while reading his posts concerning 2-3 I learned a lot about how to build a team to make a 2-3 actually work. I adopted some of the principles and was able to understand ALL kinds of defence (outside 1-3-1, which is imho far off in simulation what it´s supposed to be in real life).

and there are also gm telling the opposite, like for example the salry imbalance betwen big and small dudes which is general gm view depending his post was often target of my critism. even when nowadays, the gap isn't that big anymore since people play very multiskilled big and there are 250k guards worth playing in a top team(even when they are still less then the 200k+ dudes on the c side).

But overall we ain't the speakers of the BB, we are moderators of the game we keep our own opions and thoughts of the game when we get gm. And the free supporter isn't that much payment to buy our voices, for me that salary makes it still a voluntary work^^

Last edited by CrazyEye at 1/16/2012 2:18:41 AM

The GMs keep telling us that things are fine and balanced.

No, we don't really. We are too busy working on other conspiracies specificallly against you.

The offseason PO/PD could be much simpler if all teams were involved :

PO same as right now

PD 5 vs 8 - 6 vs 7 no inter conf match best of 3.

It means the #5 can be relegated.

For the financial part there is a lot of ways to do something good for all teams and keep the equity.

The weakness of the suggestion is :

- tank all season
- 5th battles hard for a PO spot
- buy team of superstars before PD with the cash saved
- crush 5th
- stay up and get 1st draft pick

Yeah. I think this change would only make sense if it goes hand in hand with inventing a draft lottery instead of auto-assigning the first pick to the team finishing last.

You might aswell change the format as following:

playdowns:

5th vs 6th (interdiv, crossover)

winners stay in (automatically leads to "one week more salaries btw)

and then losers of 5th vs 6th plays a three game series against the 7th of the (crossover to 5th placed) group

so 5th places still can relegate, 8th places are down nevertheless, and you have "solved" several problems at once (and 7th place is a bad spot to count on, you lose tuesdays game and you better finish 6th).

True.

And yes - you might schedule an auto scrimmage between the 7th placed teams for that case.

And what about TS ? :)

I'd rather have 7th and 8th going down.
No playdowns, 5th and 6th stay up.
Salaries paid every week even if the team has no game.
PO as today, maybe with increased income.
Increased prize money for promoted teams.

Helps prevent tanking. Prevents fighting purposedly for a good draft pick as it most probably means demotion.
No PO means no 3 games week for training.

Poor idea. As has been said this is not like real basketball. A NBA team cannot find themselves 8th seed and suddenly go out and buy a massive team and win the championships but it is easy to do it here. I could tank all season, save a fortune and then just win two games for the entire season and stay up? Serious?

The team that was coming 3rd all season in a tight conference has their star player suffer a major injury loses a couple of games and ends up in 5th and gets relegated by the 8th team that didn't win a game all season? Awesome.

I have made my suggestion before which would be fairly simple to impliment. You don't pay salaries in weeks when you don't have a competitive game. You also shouldn't get TV money or merchandising. This would make the advantages of coming 5th as opposed to 4th or 3rd a lot less.