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I was hoping something would be done about the use of BLANK LINE-UPS and I was really hoping for a Transfer deadline for the cup(like the one they have for the playoffs and the BB3). I was also kind of disappointed with the achievements feature. It was like car jacking a Daihatsu Hi-jet cargo van that was next to Benzs and BMWs. Of all the things to copy from Hattrick and you chose that one. A major fail in my eyes. the team loyalty feature would have been much better. I also think the 50-50 thing is strange too. Why not just have all the teams pay no salaries for the playoffs....and then the playoff teams get the revenue and the other teams get nothing. This way, 4th still gets 33% and pays no salaries and 5th gets nothing and pays no salaries. It would have been a much better fix.
On a positive note....at least there was change this season....thanks for that. a game that stands still is a dead game..

Thanks for this opportunity for Q&A. Do the BBs have any plans to adjust the fan survey and attendance logic? Especially attendance. It seems that fans would want to come to games if you've been winning games in general that season, not necessarily whether you won your last away game so much. Also, with the fan survey, many times you get 1-ball for the last game's performance even if you only lost by 1 to a top team or even if the game went into overtime. It seems that this might be a fairly easy fix to tweak the attendance or fan survey logic. Thanks!

Any chance we can finally see advanced stats in BB? Advanced stats have become essential in real-life basketball and as games already have an established database of results (and play by play data) they can relatively easily implement most of them.

some of the advanced stats i would like to see in BB:

- Pace (number of possessions a team uses per game)
- Offensive Rating (points scored per 100 possessions)
- Defensive Rating (points allowed per 100 possessions)
- PER (John Hollingers famous player efficiency rating)
- opponents PER
- TS% (shooting percentage that accounts for FTs and 3s)
- Win Shares and Win shares per 48 minutes
- +/- numbers within a season not just a single game
etc.

I am sure all these stats would provide many topics for discussion on the forums and will improve the BB experience.

Achievements page is a great idea, congratulations!
Yet, I have collected all 98 country flags and this achievement is not awarded to my team. Could this be a bug or what?
Thanks

This thread must be in red colour...

By the way im with Flamen, my principal question now its about BB publicity campaign, now we are not loosing users but not gaining also...

This thread made my day happier :), it shows that BBs are really motivated to improve the game

I have a simple question.

What point have the new change 50/50% money from PO game?
You are "punishing" those managers who deserve to be on 1st place during the whole season? You take away their 17% of money and give it to managers who don't deserve it during the season.

I hope you will fix this bad change.

Regards

Blocking still seems underrated by the view of the managers. The BB's all tried to convince us in the past that the bocking skill also helps with altering shots (what we most of the time dont see) and that blocking will help to reduce at least the Looking Inside domination etc. But people are believers until they see it with their own eyes.

When the manager trains jumpshot, they notice a increase in scoring %. When the manager trains passing, they notice more assists. It makes all the hard training finally pay off while watching a live game. More positive action coming out of the gameviewer. When they train blocking they almost see jack shit out of their hard effort to train a good amount of blocking.

Im not saying BB should hand out unrealistic more blocks in a game. Just at least a more realistic amount to give blocking some more eye candy. Even in real life the bocking average is higher in less minutes compared to BB.

I see way to many good blockers (i checked players with 14 blocking and higher also at least 14 ID and a bit OD just to be sure) with 1,7-2,3 blocking averages. I also looked at their career blocking in one game. Way to many had a max of 5 or 6 blocks in one game. Almost no bursts of 10+ blocks in one game. These things do happen in real life.

Blocking doesnt feel like a game-changing skill to train. Its just not cool. Even players with 14 skills in rebounding can average 15 rebounds a game in here. With 15 rebounds in this game you would be the number one rebounder in the NBA for at least the last 5 seasons. Even a top shot blocker isnt sure to average a good blocking amount. Its just to hard to make a block in this game..

A positive change in the average amount of blocks per game would make training it at least more fun. More blocking will give teams a better way to defend the Looking Inside domination, so this change handles the L.I. problem as well, while making it more fun to watch the game. A no brainer to me

I could understand BB thinks: " blocking is already powerful enough, so we dont change a thing. ". You could at least make it more attractive to watch by decreasing the % of a altered shot (since we dont see them most of the time anyway) and increase the actual blocks.. Those 2 could even themselves out, but more satisfaction.

So my question would be:

Can BB be convinced by the BB-manager that the skill blocking needs a adjustment,or can we just give up because BB isnt going to change anything regarding the blocking skill?

Last edited by Maupster at 12/3/2012 4:52:41 PM