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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!!!

The wrong guess and the massive loss to my rebounding when Sheffield fouled out (after 10 minutes!) was just too much for me to overcome without home court. We seemed to take turns fouling like crazy tonight!

I didn't get to watch the Championship game, but I am by default a Gonzaga supporter, since Spokane is technically in my state (and isn't WSU), even if in the Red county wilderness. So, I am officially outraged over that jump ball thing...

Haha. I really should be in the NBBA now, i just was distracted by RL last season at the wrong moment and didn't sign the player i needed!

I'm trying to do it this season, albeit less efficiently. We'll see how it goes. I still don't see myself competing for the NBBA title if i promote though, will be down to about $ 9 with a massive SF hole and missing quality rotation players. At least i'll have the dreaded high salary PG..... :(

You strongly reduced the average age of your roster with Kirk Jones!