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From: Lemonshine

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285774.31 in reply to 285774.26
Date: 3/20/2017 10:47:20 AM
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What's your assessment of the situation in respect of micronations? I'm sure you've discussed this among the staff. What do you expect from it? More teams? Or do you think the userbase in those nations will shrink as a direct result of the change, but you may recover users in the long term?

I think the possibility of some long standing users quitting is very real and in some cases 1 or 2 leaving is a very big deal. South Africa for example has 12 users (it's the largest African nation), say 3 people leave and it's -25%. In fact in total all African nations have 48 users altogether, it can shrink substantially if some people leave which will leave you with a D1 and bot filled D2s.

There lies the other problem all these teams are now competing in D1, what are you going to do in the first season after then merge? Create 4 D1s and then demote 36 teams?

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285774.33 in reply to 285774.27
Date: 3/20/2017 11:21:07 AM
Leones del Cinaruco
FCBBP
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hahahahahahahaha!! You mean it is the BBs painting over the cracks. They can't even fix the Fan Survey but they give us SOMETHING else nobody wanted....Nicknames!!
when will the BBs start listening to what people want?

I reallly like and want the nicknames. Why you talk for everybody? Yes, the fan survey issue is pretty annoying and it must be the priority.


But You DON'T have the power for think or give an opinion for me

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285774.34 in reply to 285774.33
Date: 3/20/2017 11:28:28 AM
Leones del Cinaruco
FCBBP
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The economy impact of the changes is huge.... 60k in salaries raises and just 2k in TV contract improvement. Maybe it must be recalculated. Give to the teams the chance to buy players according to the salary floor... maybe a second negotiation of tv contract in the all star break.

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285774.35 in reply to 285774.31
Date: 3/20/2017 11:32:37 AM
Les Galactics
IV.29
Overall Posts Rated:
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Second Team:
La Castilla

I think the possibility of some long standing users quitting is very real and in some cases 1 or 2 leaving is a very big deal. South Africa for example has 12 users (it's the largest African nation), say 3 people leave and it's -25%. In fact in total all African nations have 48 users altogether, it can shrink substantially if some people leave which will leave you with a D1 and bot filled D2s.



Good one, in Nigeria, 10 active team atm but 3 team signed up and never came back. It's huge for a community

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285774.37 in reply to 285774.32
Date: 3/20/2017 12:06:03 PM
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I don't think 90% of users are fighting over kids to make sure they in end up in their country. Imagine the uk merged and scottish teams tank in all divisions, get all the hall of famers. Sounds fair for the english teams to just play perennial allstars for the seniors?
The draft will need to be adjusted of course, but that is a problem as a nation not individually. Each of you people in micronations individually can get MUCH better draftees on average than users who are in league with more human users.

So I agree that as a nation it's not good it would starve micronations of trainable players even more than now. Individually you are basically just get the same deal everyone else has.

Besides, in you example the Scots would get shafted because they would be the minority and there would be a much higher chance that some English manager tanks for picks. So I think you have that reversed.

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285774.38 in reply to 285774.36
Date: 3/20/2017 12:12:46 PM
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I don't know what he meant but I can tell you thins: every single team who has a couple of bots in his league can happily tank till the end of time and never get a boycott. That means all micronation teams, all teams in the lowest level of competition in their nation (which, as you can imagine, are the majority) are completely unaffected.

Bots are the extreme example of differences in strength between nations. Boycott punishes losing, as if losing (and winning games against bots) are an intelligent way to decide who's tanking and who's trying to win but comes up short. In reality the boycott rule ends up:
a) Punishing teams who are trying in very challenging leagues or people who do not manage to compete due to injuries
b) Not punishing tanking teams if they have some bot opponent (because it's almost impossible to lose to a bot)

Last edited by Lemonshine at 3/20/2017 12:13:43 PM

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285774.40 in reply to 285774.39
Date: 3/20/2017 1:21:04 PM
Les Galactics
IV.29
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Second Team:
La Castilla
ahah no politic here please :)

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285774.41 in reply to 285774.36
Date: 3/20/2017 1:26:31 PM
Durham Wasps
EBBL
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Sunderland Boilermakers
The boycott affects all teams which lose all the games in any third of a season. Tankers, who by definition have made a conscious decision to lose, will just make sure they win one game to avoid the boycott, as maximising income is the aim, and not losing.

The only people affected by the boycott are teams that aren't good enough to win a single game.

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