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Would you complain about this if both players went for $1.5M? If so, why? If not, please explain to me how any single player in this game would be affected in any way by the players moving for a different price.

At the time the top players were trading hands between 750k and 1.25mil - you can argue the players were NT and you can argue you want to keep american players with american teams fro training purposes you can even argue that their skill sets were better than anyone currently on the TL - but to pay 2x market price is too much. So yes at 1.5mil that would be more realistic vs where prices were that week and previous weeks. BUT then as no guarantee you would both get the player you set out to trade you wouldve both just kept bidding to after the point others thought reasonable/not value for money so that you did infact get the desired outcome. As it happened you just slapped a start bid of 2.5mil which acted as a deterrent as no-one then saw any value in outbidding (cos of the inflated price) and even if they did you wouldve just both stepped up to 2.6 or whatever it took to keep the deal alive.


Again, how does this adversely affect anyone? If there was a single player who was sold for an inflated price, then the seller gets an unfair advantage. But here, that simply isn't the case.

No but you eliminate the player from being on the TL for everyone to consider. If 2 players are deliberately listed above market price then all that needs to be in place is sufficient funds to get the process started. If someone decided to try and outbid and got to the stage even you didnt have the funds to outbid them again he would most likely be slapped with a fine for paying what is deemed over the odds.


if everyone paired off and only traded their stars at $4-5mil plus then how would the teams with cash (but no friend to trade) get away with bidding the amounts without someone accusing them of cheating....

Can you come up with a realistic scenario?

Just repeat what you guys did. 1 team trains guards 1 trains Centers. You both list for $5mil (above market price) only 1 interested person (as they know the money is coming straight back to them).

I appreciate when defending your actions or those of others you use bias to argue your case. I in this instance didnt care for either player and from a neutral perspective want to air my opinion which is to stamp out this type of collusion so that the transfer market continues to operate in a fair way for all that choose to use it.

I get it now..

There is obviously more trades like this in the pipeline....

Ok... well if thats the case Im fighting an uphill battle / impossible task to win over any of you NBBA boys...

Am I the only player with this take on this subject? Surely I cant be going mad all by myself?

thats what is wrong with this training sistem. Farming players, and you cant do anything about it. You can only try to top the bid. I dont think you will get a fine if there are more than 1 bid for the same player by different users.

So for such extraordinary players i dont think there is a top price, and that beyond that price you will be fined.

What I wanted to say is : If you have the money BID.

And then he'd probably get a +9 injury soon after joining your team!

I dont think there are more trades like that in the pipeline, since there's better players on the market now.

At that time, both players were getting older and past the point of efficient training. Both of us didn't want to give up an impact player without getting an impact player back. At the top division level, esp the competitive NBBA, the money doesn't help as much as having the impact player.

We both happened to be in the same situation, training complimentary positions. It's not like we started the game in season 1 and figured "hey, you train guards and ill train inside players, and 3 seasons from now we'll have a trade!".

So we both we're at the point to move our players, would it have made you happier if we just listed them at lower prices and just kept bidding up on each one, with the result being the same? We both had over 1 mil each, and then would have both been receiving money for each others player from the market, in which would have been invested in making the same result.

It's very hard to value top players on the market. Look at Pera, he went for 3.2 and might have gone for more if one of the bidders didnt run out of money. Heck, I listed a couple players hoping to gather another mil to get to 3.5 mil to buy pera.

The easiest way to deal with this problem, and the fastest way for some of the schmucks with crappy teams and no money to get out of that mire, is to train up some players that are worth 2.5 mill. If there were more than two out there, more teams would bid. Would it have helped if I had bid on one of the players...ok, I admit I didn't have that much money, but I blew roughly 2.3 mill this week.

But people can get injured with seats. Just ask Geraldo. He got his nose broken once whena melee broke out on his show and someone hurled a chair at him.

It was good TV.

a transfer compare tool would be the only way of not overpaying/underpaying for players. this way we would all know what to expect to pay/receive for a certain player. until then, i would honestly pay as much money as i have on a player, if i feel that the player would greatly improve my team. :)
but, yes, i think 2.5 mil is kinda too much, but that also depends on how good/young the player is.