BuzzerBeater Forums

First of all, you can't guarantee a great draft. There may be no great players in the draft; it's rare, but it happens. Or you could have my luck and find a 5/5 guy in the draft, only to have him auto-drafted by a bot team. I had a 66% chance to get him with the 16th pick since bot teams draft randomly, but I got unlucky. And in a league with human managers, your odds are if anything worse. So I wouldn't count on the draft.

Don't get me wrong, I love the draft and have always faithfully invested $10-20K per week in it. For me at least, it doesn't get much better in this game than logging on to BB Monday morning, going to your roster page, and seeing that $5K, MVP potential 18yo sitting in your roster, just waiting to be trained into a legend. But frankly, that doesn't happen very often especially if you're a successful team with a low draft pick and you wouldn't be advised to count on that to turn your team around. Hope for it, by all means, and definitely do some scouting to put yourself in a position to get lucky; just don't depend on that luck to bail your team out.

Also, definitely get rid of those old players. When a player gets to be 33 or older, meaning that you're paying their salary but their declining skills mean you're paying a higher salary than their skills dictate. Especially if you're a young team who's building more for the future, you shouldn't be building around really old players.

sell them NOW, when they're still worth something. Rare to see 36+ yr olds sell though, though I do see the 37 and 38 yr old Jason Kidds go somewhere. Get rid of them, build up arena, and go young.

im planning to end the season as the 2nd or 3rd seed hopefully and i probably wont get good draft cuase there r no bot teams. i will probably get the 11th or 12th draft picks. im the 5th seed now but there is 2 new teams with scrubs and that will put me at 3rd and the guy in second we r tied and i think i can beat him to get 2nd