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181078.54 in reply to 181078.50
Date: 4/19/2011 6:08:11 PM
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Huh? Tanking happens all the time in every major sport (in America, at least).

We just call it rebuilding.

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181078.55 in reply to 181078.53
Date: 4/19/2011 6:15:44 PM
LionPride
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Not a bit of it. I was hoping other top managers did.

I was more interested in this section though
Finally, owners agreed to the player demand that trainers, some of whom haven’t changed their methods in over ten seasons, take a refresher course, bringing them up-to-date with the latest equipment and techniques. A particular emphasis of modern techniques seems to be cross-training, and by the start of season 17, we expect that just as improvement in one skill seems to be linked to related skills, now improvement in one skill will in addition be linked, more weakly, even to seemingly unrelated skills.


I'm really liking this. If this isn't warning enough for the most of you than I don't know what is. Those training solely based on the elastic effect may have to find new methods as the elastic effect could become invalid. However it will be fun to find those random pops. Maybe rebounding or passing will finally get a secondary pop. This is a great change.

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181078.56 in reply to 181078.53
Date: 4/19/2011 6:16:14 PM
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It doesn't mean anything, just fluff for the writing. It's just a "reason" that a team with a floor of 70K and 40K in player salaries has to pay out another 30K. He's paying it in "pension" to old retired players.

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181078.57 in reply to 181078.55
Date: 4/19/2011 6:37:55 PM
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I never understood the elastic effect trick anyway.
Apparently you don't train the weakness of your player until he is were you want him to be at his other skills, then you use the elastic effect to train his weakness quicker than normal?

Ok, so training his weak skill was quicker. However, where is the evidence that the time you save training that weak skill isn't negated by the fact it took you longer for his other skills?

"Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain." - Jean-Claude Van Damme
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181078.58 in reply to 181078.57
Date: 4/19/2011 6:42:02 PM
LionPride
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To be honest I get as much as you do about the elastic effect. Just enough to know that it could be in jeopardy if training was changed up slightly

Last edited by oriolekid at 4/19/2011 6:42:28 PM

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181078.59 in reply to 181078.58
Date: 4/19/2011 7:21:58 PM
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Owners of the strongest teams grew tired of handing a large share of television revenue to teams that didn’t contribute to the strength of their league -- such teams tanking a season would generally turn out to be making a mistake, but that mistake also dragged down television revenue and fan interest for the other teams in their league.


My bank account and great young players created from training while tanking are merely a mirage. It seems I've made a mistake. What have I done!

edit - well, Charles did say "generally", i guess

Last edited by brian at 4/19/2011 7:23:14 PM

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181078.60 in reply to 181078.59
Date: 4/19/2011 7:46:57 PM
LionPride
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And Sharman and his astronomically large bank account would also like to join you for cocktails at the "Where did I go wrong" convention ;)

Edit:This isn't as funny now since Sharman is back in the JBBL after successfully tanking.

Last edited by oriolekid at 4/19/2011 7:48:18 PM

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181078.63 in reply to 181078.62
Date: 4/20/2011 3:39:19 AM
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I dont like this "fix", as it really does not solve anything. Most tanking teams will get/keep three players that will keep them above the ridiculously low floor and still make truckloads of cash.

The floor in my league is ~116k, nowadays its really hard to be below this amount - three trainees in later stages of their training will keep you over this sum...

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