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first off in a thinking mans game like this one should expect a pretty consistent drop. Some sign up and forget about it completely or decide its just too intimidating. That was the case with me for the first couple of months or so I had a team, but I read up in the forums, figured out some rudimentary basics and in due time moved up the table. It did however try my patience.

There are more users than not who play this game very casually, they log in often enough to stay but are not enough into the game to become factors. That is on BB, one thing I have noticed is on the other basketball sims they do make contact with their patrons, but then again the other ones out there just pale by comparison. If BB would do a weekly newsletter or something along those lines then it would go a long way towards retention of newer members. Does a user get a email if they have not logged in for five financials to let them know their team is about to be defunct?

For that matter EVERYONE should hear from BB once in a while, a little newsletter or something to that effect would be nice. I know from reading some of your blogs there are some talented and entertaining writers on this site, give us your talents!

Also we need a good backstory... Canonization if you will. What is the "Buzzer Beater Universe" how did this come to be? Not talking about the literal story of how this site was started but a entertaining yarn allowing one to use the theater of the mind.

I think an good idea would be making advert about BB on forums/blogs of basketball. It could give very positive results.

This would just change the whole game. You'll see when you'll have be in Buzzerbeater a bit longer, but you can create very nice players. It just take some times. It's up to you to do it or not.

Apologies for replying 10 days later, but to new players (and before you say it, i played from season 21-24 so i'm not new to this game at all) that time is required to develop nice players might seem a but redundant. Realistically let's say a new player joins BB at the start of the season, he has to wait the entire season then hope he gets lucky in the draft or finds a trainee with the money he has. Maybe if there were some way to get players a player or two that can help them shape their team it wouldn't be as gamechanging and perhaps would help new players become hooked into the game.

New managers can find good trainees for really cheap on the market any time during the season.

Now all they need to do is fix training ... or it won't matter one bit what kind of trainees there are. Right now finding good trainees on the market is like finding sand in your shoes -- so what?

Last edited by Mike Franks at 7/28/2015 10:21:37 PM

Well, since I always try to find something to agreee with, let's see ...

... it could be changed ...

Agree!

Despite everything said here, the number of users continues to drop. If no drastic measures are taken, the game will be over soon enough.

And that is so sad for us who have many years here.

I really doubt the game actually dies. Number of users is dropping, and it's a bit sad, but it doesn't impact the game too much. Even if the userbase drops further, I'll continue playing.