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And what do you thing are main reasons for significant decrease of user base?

Summer!

Maybe marginal effect. I don't expect increase in autumn, maybe just stop of decrease.

I'm not sure if I understand right all your thoughts. But even in time of advertisement it was just short time increase of user base, because up to 80% or 90% of new users quit the game very quickly within one or two seasons after setting up the team.
And also more and more users that start in first few seasons of BB are quitting the game.

Today there are 46959, which is up 2000 people since this thread opened, unless the OP was exaggerating.

i didnt see ads for BB anywhere so far. i'm not saying there is none but i havent seen them.
maybe more advertising for BB would help increase user base. i know it's expensive to advertise and knowing this is a free game and that alot of new users will not buy supporter packages makes it even harder.

also i no longer see ads on BB. why dont they advertise something on BB and earn some money from it?

Statistic of supporters could be very interesting as I expect the number of supporters are decreasing as well maybe even more quickly than number of users.

And what do you thing are main reasons for significant decrease of user base?

Personally, this type of game is one that isn't likely to continue to draw new people in the facebook/farmville era. People who are serious fans of sports simulation or team management games may find their way here and stay, but otherwise there's not a lot of draw for a game where it may take a RL year for your hot new draftee to become a true star. Not when there's always quicker, more visceral experiences available.

On the other hand, it always amuses me to see people try to point out that the decline is related to whatever game mechanic or feature they're dissatisfied with, with the assumption that if that were just fixed, people would be back in droves. That's more of a behavior seen on Hattrick, with somewhere around 10-15x the userbase here, and no shortage of people who claim that the declines there are just because of whatever is irritating them at the moment! ;)