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291189.9 in reply to 291189.8
Date: 1/5/2018 4:16:13 PM
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Hassan - how do you emotionally deal with watching your team skills waste away to nothingness on a weekly basis?


There are a number of tried and true strategies to deal with this.

1) bring in motivational speakers that tell my players that "winning is a state of mind" and that winning is simply a function of "wanting it more than your opponent".

2) have a stiff drink before looking on Fridays, or, better yet, don't look at all.

3) learn from Buddhism and realize that attachment to skills results in pain and disappointment.

4) see it as a challenge and try to delay the inevitable. this is the most constructive view.

for others, the game is about player development. for me, it is managing player decline. i think few people see this as fun.

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291189.11 in reply to 291189.10
Date: 1/7/2018 7:53:40 AM
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now i have to add the Cantaloupes to my list of teams with which i can no longer compete. more enthusiasm, at home, and they still whipped my tail. it's obvious they had a good team, but they either moved up a level, or just as likely, i have fallen a couple.

that list will probably lengthen as the season goes on.

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291189.12 in reply to 291189.11
Date: 1/7/2018 2:38:29 PM
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Put a little something extra in the players pregame melon smoothies. Don't tell the front office. Be cool.

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291189.13 in reply to 291189.12
Date: 1/8/2018 8:45:40 AM
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man, part of the decline is the humiliation . . . just saw that my merchandise total was only $3 thousand more than my DII Utopia squad.

my team's merchandise has its own section at Goodwill.

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291189.14 in reply to 291189.11
Date: 1/8/2018 8:10:40 PM
TarTeam
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Just checked my schedule and discovered plenty of yellow games. :D
B3 here we go! It won't be a piece of cake.

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291189.15 in reply to 291189.14
Date: 1/9/2018 8:29:39 AM
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B3 here we go! It won't be a piece of cake.


two points:
-- your WR in reality is much higher than your current ranking. you'll do very well.
-- that said, the very best teams will be to you what your team is to mine. teams from the USA simply don't get to the top 10 and above -- even Upsyndrome, with his US NT lineup, made it only to something like 6. Winning the B3 . . . i can't imagine what sort of team it would take.

good luck!

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291189.16 in reply to 291189.15
Date: 1/10/2018 4:04:10 PM
TarTeam
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Ouch! That hurts
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291189.17 in reply to 291189.16
Date: 1/10/2018 6:49:30 PM
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you've got more excuse than i do -- your opponent's WR was lower than yours. not true for my sorry game (100612812)

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291189.18 in reply to 291189.17
Date: 1/13/2018 9:41:06 PM
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Finally got my first NBBA win! Wooohooo!!!!


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