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Hi, I have a few questions about this season's draft.

This is my first season in BB. I Created my team when the season had already started, missed like 4-5 games. I thought that there's no point in wasting all my wealth on new players so I decided to wait for the draft. I used less than 50k(lol) on new players, and I even might drop to the lower league thanks to that.
I've been using 20k per week to get 3 points the whole season, while the average is 9k in my league.

I've found a few pretty good players, at least in my opinion.
The first one I'm going to try to get is:

5* 5potential PG, A 18 year old 6`5/196cm

The second one I'm going to try to get is:

5* 4potential PF, A+ 18 year old 6`9/206cm

I'll be the #6 to draft. Four of the teams to draft before me has been created less than a month ago, and I think they haven't used a lot of money to get the points. Even if they would have used max(40k/4points) a week , they only would have gotten like 16 points.

My question now is, how likely is it for me to get both of those 2 players? It would suck to not get those 2, because I've use a lot of my wealth to stalk :D

And the second question is , which one should I select as my #3?

5* 3potential PF, A+ 19 year old 6`11/211cm
24min 5-10FG, 1-1 3PT, 4-5FT, 1OR, 4TR, 1AST, 2TO, 0STL, 4BLK, 4PF, 15pts

or

5* 3potential SG, A- 19 year old 6`2/188cm
34min 7-13FG, 0-2 3PT, 2-2FT, 2OR, 7TR, 5AST, 6TO, 2STL, 1BLK, 5PF, 16pts

Thank you :=]

O and btw, I won the first game and lost the 2nd QF game, any tips for the 3rd game? Would suck to lose.. It's kinda unfair that the team under me got to play against a team that had 2 players.. The both games ended 25-0 to the team who was under me in my league. Talk about luck lol.

Moi!
You'll win your next game if you play man to man D. I'd go for PTB, MTM.
Box and one is a very specific D against one star teams. + it's new at BB and not thoroughly tested.

You might get both draftees, but you cannot train them both simultaneously. You have to make a choice to train bigs or smalls and then carry on for 5-6 seasons before if ever making another choice.

Chances are good:
You get your first pick
You won't get your second pick (maybe 5th)
The last pick is a throw away.
You won't get relegated anyway.

The potential of the draftee gives you highest value on TL. So PF 5* 5pot is the best and a very fantastic option!

Otta easisti!

Last edited by thylacine at 7/18/2011 3:38:44 PM

You'll probably get one of your top 2 choices. I'd be surprised if you got them both, but it's possible. Plus, like the last guy said, you won't be able to train them both anyway (at least not very well.)

Investing in the draft is a bit of crap shoot. You're never guaranteed getting the guys you want, and even if you do, there's no guarantee they'll be as good as you think.

If you are building through the draft and young players, make sure you have a good trainer. At least level 4.

You won't regulate even if you lose. Your DV is full of bots, and they always start you in the lowest division in your country that has human teams.

But isn't a 6'5" PG tall? Wouldn't it be better to try for the A+ PF who will be better right away and will be easier to train? For the third pick, I would pick the same position as the 1st: if the first pick is a PG, I would pick the SG, otherwise the PF. It would make the training easier.

Thx for the comments!

I think I'll be going with these. And we'll see how many of the three players I'll get from the draft. I can always sell the players if I won't be able to train them :)

Oh really? Where can I see if a team is lead by a bot or not? Interesting.. ^_^

Click Your League, Hover top right where it says Forum, 3rd down is Conference Overview and you see last login of each team or nothing, which means it's bot.

Last edited by thylacine at 7/18/2011 11:21:34 PM

Another way to get there I found is to click the "Big 8" or "Great 8" at the top of each of the conference standings list in the League overview. That's especially nice for directly checking the Great 8, because you don't have to first go through the Big 8 list.

You might get both draftees, but you cannot train them both simultaneously. You have to make a choice to train bigs or smalls and then carry on for 5-6 seasons before if ever making another choice.

Hi

I not agree with that becouse You can train this two for SF 196cm and 206 they are nice. The bigger one probably will be average, respectable in down and the second one will be respectable in high skills, than if You train them in SG You will have for few seasons nice SG, PG and nice SF, choice is Yours.

regards

Under manager it will say Managed by a computerized player. Also if you look at your county you will see there are about 550 people active. However in 4 divisions there can be 1360 teams.