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Hi all,

I'm hoping the experienced pro's can point me to useful newbie resources and / or share the benefit of wisdom gained. I got my BB team yesterday, read through the rules and the 'help' post about team positions and picking first team. Did that, and won yesterday (yay!) but I don't feel like I "get" BB yet.

My team is top of my league, which is a lovely present to start with, but I fear I won't stay there unless I improve my understanding fast. Attendance at my game last night was 500 - 10% of what the team was getting before I took over. I'm going to be bust within a few weeks.

I understand basketball, and I've played other sim games (cricket mostly) so understand the idea of the game. But I don't see how training in BB works to improve particular players, or how I can reliably set match tactics to play to my team's strengths, or how I can get my finances under control.

Help, please!

Hmm the best tip I can give is,

Limit your roster to 12 players and dont hire a lvl 10 coach etc already. Your attendance will increase fast if you are winning, keep the money of your TV games in stock and don't spend it immidiately at the transferlist.

For information on training, I recommend the training speed analysis thread in this forum. It details the skills trained, the positions receiving training and (for some of the options) the time per pop.

I've played for some weeks now and probably did some of the noob mistakes. I've hired a level nine coach and upgraded my stadium slightly... you know.
Still haven't gone bankrupt but threading on thin ice...

As long as you win games your attendance will pick up shortly. I've filled the arena once. You probably have a TV match coming up soon, that's the one marked with tv on the schedule. This game will generate quite some money. I'm not sure on the division between the home and away team, but you will get a considerable amount.

When it comes to training, plan for the long term. In Buzzerbeater one training form trains several things. Jump shout for instance trains both inside shot, jump shot and jump range, but it varies on how many weeks it takes and for which positions, the beauty is that no one knows for sure yet. There is a lot of players out there that is trying to find out, but it is not as easy as hattrick.
I'm trying to train only my outside players relying on buying the inside players. I don't know if thats the best decision but when I decided I had only two 19 year olds in my team and they were outside players (point guard, shooting guard and small forward), When the draft is over I might change focus depending on what I pick.

Match engine system I picked from my first few matches when I saw the percentage shots made from which positions (it is on the middle of the page when you click on the result). My big strong inner men scored over 120 per game so for me it was easy to decide to go for "look inside" for offense and I tend to play man on man defense (just because I like it in the real world. It might be wiser to change to some Zone defense once and a while.

I hope this helps you to get started and if you want any more specific answers send me a BB-mail.

Kingofnewyork

I agree with what the others have said about your attendance, it'll pick up quickly, but you still need to be careful with your spending. You should get 50k a week for the first 4 weeks, which is a huge boost. Your TV game (the last one of the season for you) will bring you around 300k thanks to your division, which should get you safely through the offseason.

In terms of training, the prevailing idea is to either train "inside" guys or "outside" guys. This either means your PF/C or your SG/PG. You can mix in some training for your SF if you're clever. Guards mostly use the first 6 skills (jump shot, jump range, outside D, handling, passing, driving) and big men use the next 4 (inside shot, inside D, rebounding, shot blocking), but some of the skills matter for both, like how your PF might also use driving or your guards might also need some inside shot. It's pretty intuitive with real basketball.

Guys with balanced skills train faster, so when looking for trainees you would prefer a guy that was "average" in jump shot, jump range, outside defense, and handling to a guy who was "strong" in jump shot and "atrocious" in the other three.
In order to keep the skills balanced and the training faster, lots of people rotate among several skills, training each for 2-3 weeks at a time. For instance, for my guards I do 2-3 weeks of jump shot, 2-3 weeks of pressure, now I'm on 2-3 weeks of driving, etc. It's a little easier to train big men since they have less necessary skills than guards.

Trainees are expensive, especially balanced 18 yos, so I'd look on your team and see if you have any youth at a position and train that if possible. Training speed just doubled, so if you make sure your trainees get 48 minutes at the right position you should see some pops fairly quickly.

Hope this helps!