BuzzerBeater Forums

becouse as i said previous monday it was 24.1, now it is 23.9.

You got one right at least. Well done. 202 users down this week.

It was a bad week for the micronations: Costa Rica, South Africa, the UAE, Iceland, Panama and Morocco all lost a single user. Japan, home of the original portent of doom, joined the under 20s by shedding two users.

The biggest numerical drop was in China, who lost 24 users. I'd make a witticism about why that might be but this probably isn't the place.

Portugal and Sweden bucked the trend by adding a massive 3 users.

Once again, I find this all perfectly useless. The slow drip of the previous two weeks, compared to the bigger drop this week isn't statistical evidence of a sudden acceleration of quitters. Nor were the two slower weeks of losses indication of a slowdown or an approach of stability. However, it does make a change to see facts rather than fiction in one of these threads.

Just for the record, this was posted on the first page of this thread on July 13, 2014:

"I used to play between season 11 and season 22. I was a very active user back then and I remember between 50 and 60k users. When I returned two weeks ago I was shocked to see that there were only 27,000 left."

I have no reason to believe that this guy was making up those numbers, so that means since July 1, this game has lost roughly 3,000 players. That's about 600 per month.

As an aside, I dropped to US Div IV last season. In a season and a half, I have seen five or six teams in my league go bot. Roughly 25 percent of the 22 teams assigned to the league in Seasons 28 and 29. Players were not quitting at that rate when I was in Div. IV the first time (about 15 seasons ago).

I don't follow your point. Or why you replied specifically to my post. You don't like me posting exact numbers instead of estimates?

Just getting in on the discussion about how many players are quitting ... yours just happened to be the last post on the subject with numbers, so I replied to it.

And my point is, the post from July does give us some hard numbers on the net loss of players over the last five months, which is more telling than a sample of one or two weeks or someone's speculations.

From one of my earlier posts on this thread:

Once again, I find this all perfectly useless. The slow drip of the previous two weeks, compared to the bigger drop this week isn't statistical evidence of a sudden acceleration of quitters. Nor were the two slower weeks of losses indication of a slowdown or an approach of stability.

So we seem to be making the same point.

Why on earth isn't this pointless thread dying a slow death? Or better yet, a fast death?

I am always watching and trying to figuring out how the transfer market works.

I have been doing for the past 5 to 6 seasons,

From what i have seen - the number of players being listed has greatly decreased.

For me, I am not listing any player because it's becoming harder to find any replacements (in my price range) if i do sell them.

In my opinion, one of the reason why people quit playing this game is because mangers hate losing.

Another reason they quit is because they cant figure out how to play this game.

If they added another aspect to this game that was not related to simulation basketball, mangers might stick around even if they were losing and the ones who don't know how to play might figure it out.

People like making money and having fun, so I propose they add another way for people to that other than day trading.

Maybe add a banking system or even a place to gamble there simulation money on real sport games(not buzzer beater games).

More options = More reasons to play = Higher user base