Not sure what you are ranting about: Darkonako's explanation was kind of obvious. In order to win (I mean EASILY win) in this game you need to have a better team. To have a better team you need assets: cash, players, staff and anything that costs money. The guys in this final are emblematic of how you can easily do that.
Option 1: tank and accumulate cash before buying and running a higher payroll than other people. Misagh has done that twice in the past at the B3 level, so he's not new to this. In fact, they changed the rules to make it harder after his second run. This option is just very boring, it seems like he mixed it up with some training this time, but training actually harms this strategy, because it costs money, it doesn't make you money. Needless to say this strategy is harder in nations with more levels of competition because tanking with no consequences is not possible there.
Option 2: instead of buying a high payroll, buy an average payroll that costs you twice as much to acquire. Now, because of the cash restrictions a new team will not be able to match an established one at this strategy, as you cannot spend 35 million on 7 players in 1 season...because you can't have 35 millions in the bank. The key there is to keep making money in every way you can and update the roster before your players lose too much value. This strategy is even worse than the first: it requires to diligently scout the transfer list and spend a lot of time on the game, whereas the first only requires you to log in sporadically for many seasons. Unlike option 1, where the losses due to the high salary will catch up to you, this strategy can be sustained if you can dedicate enough time.
These 2 managers have been better than others at these strategies, especially Darkonza, but the fact of the matter is very few people play the game this way and only this way. And you can see Darkonza plainly admitting that training while competing is too difficult for him. As if many more managers, even in Poland, didn't do precisely that. The majority of people just don't play the game that way and thank god for that, otherwise we wouldn't have trained players.
If you want to talk about overconfidence and arrogance, let's talk about Darkonza non using GDP in the final, as he probably thought he had a good chance without it. If he was banking on Misagh going for a GDP guess despite him having the stronger team, the conclusion on overconfidence and arrogance is pretty much the same. Frankly, if the spanish guard, who had 20 JS and 15 JR and 20 IS at the beginning of the season (he's 34yo), doesn't hit 5 3 pointers and scores 39 on 21 shots, the game is a blowout; and if Misagh goes with LI instead of LP, it is lso a blowout (more FTs and even more rebound opportunities), but at least him going LP to avoid a double GDP guess made sense.
Finally, training. Without training there would be no players. Would you say that someone who gets 85 pops and good sublevels, training mostly out of position, is the same as a guy who trains Stamina, GS and FT half the season and does some primary training with a subpar Trainer in the other half getting a few pops on account of high sublevels? If so, you'd probably also admit that writing a tweet and writing a 600 page novel are basically the same thing: they are both writing. Or that Boeing and a skateboard maker are compsrable competitors as they both produce transportation vehicles.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/3/2020 7:01:24 PM