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Those fickle fans! Sure you're the defending Cup champion and regular season Great 8 champion but what have you done for those guys lately? Seriously though, it should be a fun race for the #1 seed this year with you, me and Mr. Big Shot himself.

Silver Dogs might make some noise too after the monster acquisition he just made.

it should be a fun race for the #1 seed this year

i've been in RL "fun" races like this -- where my opponent runs 5 minute miles and is bouncing and stretching and more or less eager for the race to start, and i stand there, feet aching, hungover, complaining about how humid or cold or breezy or sunny it is, concluding "let's get this over".

there is no "race" -- there is only you deciding whether you want one or two golds this season. the tactical interest is when do teams drop out of the Cup and go for a good league standing. my problem is if i am to have any future, i need revenue, and losing anything drives my worthless fans away. i can only stay at this level if i win 18 games and reach the final four in the Cup every season, and, man, those days are all but over.

and when i see the silver dogs getting rid of their oldest (real) player, who is all of 31, i just weep.

I dont buy old players and I usually get rid of them before their 32.

I not sure all do alot of harm, I still might make so more roster moves.

I dont buy old players and I usually get rid of them before their 32

believe me, you are not the first manager to have such a personnel rule. when i first got to the NBBA, i, too, would not touch a player over 32. and good luck -- with your current squad, you are more or less good to go for five, six, seven seasons -- and that may produce a couple of golds, a nice run or two in the BBB, and a 110 or more NBBA victories. but then . . .

i noticed your attendance at this point is less than mine. you have no NT players, so your merchandise is probably comparable to mine. your team salary is only $13,000 less than mine. i'm guessing with a weekly Cup win you might be clearing $100,000 a week, less if you have a decent trainer or are investing in the draft. Do that for twelve weeks with a very good Cup run and you make, generously, $1.5 million. Plus the playoffs -- assume you make the conference finals, another couple of hundred thousand, so you clear $2 million for the season. in two-and-a-half seasons, you can buy another Peng Pong -- but the rest of the squad is three years older. rinse and repeat -- and in five seasons, suddenly your young squad is all on the other side of 30, with two exceptions.

then, if you are like me, you start thinking $4 or $5 million per player is not going to replenish your squad quickly enough, and start thinking older players are underpriced, and after ten seasons, your squad suddenly looks more like mine.

i hope you can figure out a way to avoid this. i couldn't.

Never said I was going to be here long term.

Its no guarantee all make it this year.

If it comes to the point of owning older players or tanking down, all tank down a level or 2 and rebuild.

I also find this game extremely boring wo training. I am just here to collect my 300K a week and a hopefully a high draft pick

fair enough. great thing about this game is the wide variety of ways to play it, of goals to set.

Maybe until I saved up 15-20 mil , I will go for it just for the sake of winning NBBa once in my careee

good luck. when Calum returned from an extended stay on the godforsaken moors of Scotland (November 2015), he had some $20 million in the bank. then I essentially spent $9 mil of my $20m on trainees, so down to $11m, in Div 4, inflating TL and no players, I had work cut out to get to NBBA again. I decided to spend a decent amount on salary-efficient players who I could (hopefully) sell for similar prices when I grow out of them. i.e. promote as sustainably as possible. I also committed to buying US only (but that's gone out of the window recently). It's going ok, but have ~$6m, will likely promote into Div II this season, and the who knows?

My original goal was to save up enough to win NBBA and compete in BBB (brian told me it was the only way a USA team would have a chance), but because of the TL, it doesn't look like that will be possible. If I can do it, I'll settle for having 3+ NT players and being competitive in NBBA. this was from an interview with Chekreyes about this time last year.

he just dropped $6.5 million on a player he is hoping will finally get him back to the NBBA. Calum may yet do it, but there are five teams in DII.4 that are currently ranked higher than he is nationally.

make of this what you will.

A ton of (43 combined) fouls? My team having a brutally terrible 3 point shooting game? Seems like maybe our guys tried to re-enact the NCAA Title game of last night?

On a related note, go Heels!!!