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Yeah, the total and quality of players that makeup that payroll makes the competition essentially pointless. It will be like college teams against NBA competition.

B3 is still a challenge. How to beat a 1.8M team with 1M roster. I think it's possible.

Keep thinking. Wont happen.

These are good 1.8m rosters full of players with lots of skill points for their salary. These are high salaried and high valued players.

I totally agree with you guys.

10-11 seasons ago I won my third ticket to B3 and after some experiencie on it, I realized that B3 wasn't really the place where best basketball managers face each other, but where the most financially strong teams payed unpayable rosters before bankrupcy, to try to win the competition.

So I decided to create a strategy to save money and stay competitive (I consider tanking too bored to actually do it) and it worked fine by me. Almost always made the POs and never put my team in relegation risk. Of course, since that period of time Chile has gone from 500+ users to 179 as today. Clearly not a micronation but not a superpower either.

After being the head tactical advisor of Chilean NT who won WC on S14 and made the finals on S16, have being Chilean NTM and achieving the better performance until that moment (a decent 5th place on WC), I decided B3 was the last goal for me.

The players that I trained are on optimal performance (32 years = maximum experience without skill-droping risk) and, honestly, I wasn't going to risk the work of 10-11 season holding my team of being 100% competitive, just to be defeated by a micronation manager with a 2M roster. So I played the same card but having my home-trained players and all my international experience behind them.

But yes, and as I, and many others, have said in countless occasions: B3 needs some kind of cap on salary or limitation. To help reduce the strong edge you can take by financially overpower your rivals. And don't get me wrong, better managers should have some edge over simply good basketball coaches, but not as strong as it can be right now.

This part: better managers should have some edge over simply good basketball coaches

What good basketball coaches? You don't set any kind of individual tactics, or anything. Defenses don't work as intended, especially zones. Not to mention the recent game day preparation "buzzerbeater coaches have discovered that blah blah" which has nothing to do with tactical approach. This game leaves you no room to outsmart your opponent. No tactical things are simulated.

I agree. And with most managers still running Blank Line ups, it is silly to say that there is anything difficult to even decide on game day. Just set your best players and let the AI choose where they will play. Blanks need to be put to rest already by the BBs.

I agree with that, LCD + BL kill charm of the NT-s too. The managers have no challenge, just put the best players in roster and that's all.

Against the Blank Line ups.

5 games played. Alot of nice Wondrous+ inside attack even though the biggest rosters except 猛牛 havent played yet.

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32 Vottem Cowboys (37519), Belgium, 785k Salary - 1 KS Goldena (162456), Poland, 865k Salary

17 吉吉 (214561), Macau, 755k Salary - 16 Metallist Kharkov (44258), Ukraina, 970k Salary = 105-113 (65382368)

25 Spartan 300 (44758), Bosnia i Hercegovina, 940k Salary - 8 Ojo White Knights (35243), France, 765k Salary

24 Blackwolves (34266), Germany, 920k Salary - 9 pirulos (80255), Spain, 1005k Salary

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29 Mighty Avengers (95798), Chile, 830k Salary - 4 Mloty Stargard (162788), Poland, 865k Salary

20 Lalkers Sofia (45176), Bulgaria, 800k Salary - 13 kwaiwah (52857), Malaysia, 760k Salary = 103-83 (65382372)

28 Riachos Trail Blazers (94530), Portugal, 780k Salary - 5 king of monoi (51910), Lebanon, 1085k Salary

21 Croz 04 (59460), Venezuela, 770k Salary - 12 Atsalakotoi B.C. (27693), Greece, 840k Salary

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31 T - Slam (91708), Israel, 820k Salary - 2 猛牛 (70015), China, 1375k Salary = 86-130 (65382375)

18 ThunderClap (107436), Taiwan, 760k Salary - 15 Kowloon King (51272), Hong Kong, 1005k Salary = 85-95 (65382376)

26 Soul Power BC (40426), Colombia, 945k Salary - 7 Gàidhealtachd (57619), Scotland, 1550k Salary

23 Deportivo Cali (40522), Colombia, 895k Salary - 10 Joué Basket Club (27378), France, 775k Salary

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30 Pipa Warriors (173456), Sweden, 660k Salary - 3 Foxhole Vinkovci (41131), Croatia, 720k Salary

19 EricUnited (57957), Singapore, 880k Salary - 14 King Drive Ballers (22817), USA, 1480k Salary

27 TSV Bogen (34582), Germany, 800k Salary - 6 Diamond Phoenix (50485), India, 830k Salary = 86-74 (65382381)

22 Harley Davidson (42896), Mexico, 845k Salary - 11 San Felipe Stars (40196), Chile, 1880k Salary

Last edited by Seppukusaint at 11/20/2013 12:27:48 PM