your analogy makes no sense. You compare an online game of basketball and promoting/demoting to a continent in which many of the people are starving and truly lack a way to solve this. Maybe im alone, but in my opinion comparing an online game to people suffering and dying is like comparing apples to....a computer, it doesnt make any sense in even the most abstract possible way.
1)Oh man... do i really need to explain that?.... maybe it was not that clear, so i'll explain try it to explain it better.
It's obvious that "people" and "online games" are uncomparable... you can't compare kilos with kilometres. I was just using his argument in another context, trying to showing him that there was a flaw in it... it doesn't matter if "x" in that sentence it's "people", "BB teams" or "apples", because i think it was wrong.
Like saying "x + 2x = 6x"... it really doesn't matter what you put in x, it just doesn't work.
That said, I dont get what you are saying is so unfair. Literally, I can read what you are saying, but it appears to lack understanding and/or merit. It seems to me like you almost want a game where every condition is equal, thus we would eliminate countries altogether. Perhaps what you fail to see is that to make everything equal for every team across the world, the game dynamics take a MAJOR shift, that then cause more issues, and much more severe issues at that.
2) I understand (because it's obvious!(like the example i've done earlier :P)) that NOW it would take major changes to take the situation to the right level. That's because when it has been understood that the economic system had this flaws, nothing has been made. So now we're facing the consequences... now, doing some changes it will be harder without putting the whole situation upside-down.
Listen, i'm not saying that the BBs have done a bad work (even if some economic problems were quite predictable), because they have a quite a lot of things to work on and i don't think there are some super-economical-wall street-expert between them.... it's just that it doesn't seem there's going to be some sort of solution.. it seems like "Hey, let's leave it like this and let's if it auto-fixes itself".
I could be wrong, but im willing to bet every year one team promotes out of your league. But based on how you are talking, thats really impossible because none of you can buy players on the market. But it makes me wonder what he did that you arent doing that caused him to promote.
3) Guess what! YES!! Every season a team gets promoted in my league!!!!!!.... Like... in every other league.... that's because.... one team MUST be promoted...... because unavoidably one team wins the finals. That was an easy bet, wasn'it? :P just joking
I never said that buying players is mandatory to get promoted... sorry, don't make me say thing i don't have said, maybe you have misunderstood.
EDIT: PS:
Actually, you can compare Apple to computers :P
Last edited by RainMan13 at 8/18/2010 5:12:40 PM