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League sources reported that the self proclaimed star of Eclypse, Long Neil, aka "the Franchize" appeared sad in training today and didn't give his usual 20%. Any attempts of journalists to find out the reason behind the strop met a solemn "Nothing. It's nothing!"
Just a day ago Long Neil appeared in flamboyant mood as he was spotted shopping for army gear in town center, marvelling at himself in the mirror while adjusting his new padded hat, rocking from side to side and buzzing his lips.

Last edited by thylacine at 6/18/2012 2:56:33 PM

I'd like to thank Door Mats for allowing me a token victory prior to inter-conference play. I now have hopes for a 3 win season......maybe. Especially since it looks as though I'm done in the Cup after my next game.

Last edited by Leadfoot at 6/12/2012 1:38:02 PM

Et tu, Brute?
Chekreyes already complains that there's not enough competition, but I understand that being in the red is not fun.
All those all-star votes Truong could've had will now probably go to Clark Kelsey, who's already fantasizing how, as soon as Truong exodus from this league becomes official, he'll appear to look controlled and not bothered to finally getting a thoroughly deserved recognition and will reluctantly accept the starting center role on the Big 8 team.

Chekreyes already complains that there's not enough competition, but I understand that being in the red is not fun.

I'm not in the red with Truong. However, my room for growth with him is minimal. Without him, and with the guys I'm looking at and my developing young players, I'll be in good shape.

Not enough competition? Please if everyone wants to sell their team and send me on my way to D2 you wont hear any complaining from me!

You guys notice that Liberty and Power is 9-0 in D2?

Yea I saw that last week. He's killing it. He's done it without any enormous purchases too. Just buying older, really good players.

Not sure how many back to back promotees there's been from D3 to D2, then D2 to NBBA.

Not sure how many back to back promotees there's been from D3 to D2, then D2 to NBBA.

He´dhave gone from D4 to D3, D3 to D2, and D2 to the NBBA all in three seasons.

Whoa. I didn't check his history. Don't understand how he did that...

It's been pretty much the same blueprint at each level: using the attendance bonus from promotion to afford a large increase in weekly player salaries at each step up the ladder.

Since the economy hit its baseline a couple seasons ago, it's become very easy to pick up medium and high salary older players for cheap. So without high initial auction prices acting as a barrier to getting better quickly, the real limit to how much talent a team can hold is now based mostly on how much weekly salary can they afford. And for most of the first season after promotion, (if you have a decent arena) what you can afford is probably higher than most of your league competition.

So, if you just keep adding low bid, higher salary players after each promotion, you can potentially ride the wave of:

-->attendance bonus-->allows temporary 1 season long big increase in team salary-->strong team with a good chance at promotion--> rinse and repeat

Which is not to take anything away from L&P and how well he has managed the weekly obstacles of a season long grind, how he has chosen which high salary guys to add wisely, etc. But this isn't a strategy that could really work more than a couple seasons ago, because it was not really possible back then to add a 50k/week or 100k/week SG for a bid of only 300k.