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Should Old-Enough Players Request Retirement?

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From: huzi
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Date: 5/11/2012 10:09:16 PM
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I just learned that senior players would never retire themselves but have to be fired. This is a little bit bitter when you have to fire some old guys that have contributed a lot to the team in the past.

So I am wondering if senior players (say elder than 32) could have the option to retire at the end of every season instead of waiting to be fired?

From: moflaffle

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216088.2 in reply to 216088.1
Date: 5/11/2012 11:05:14 PM
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I'm not sure if there really is an upside to having players retire on their own. A lot of the old players in the game (I'm talking 35+) are being used as scrimmage players to help limit the minutes of the starters, and I don't really see what's wrong with that. If they start retiring, it'll force people to buy new scrimmage players, which I'm sure people would much rather spend their time doing something else.

From: CrazyEye

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216088.4 in reply to 216088.3
Date: 5/15/2012 6:16:20 PM
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when they are all on farms, they won't fire them anyway.

Btw i doubt that it becomes common practice to play with player with less then 10k salary on NT level.

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216088.10 in reply to 216088.9
Date: 5/18/2012 7:12:27 PM
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Some users have fun in keeping or even collecting old aging players for whatever role playing reason. And I see nothing wrong with that, let them play the way they choose to, they do no harm doing that.

Then there is a good point about SC fodder.

Last but not least, there may be situations when they are actually good enough to be the best option. Even on NT level. First thing first - they don't start losing their skills before their turn to 33 years old, so any suggestion to retire everyone older than 32 is just wrong. Then there can be nations small enough (number of users of given countries may vary wildly over time) to have limited pool of players trained to their potential (or trained at all) to such measure that even aging player can be a star, rotation player, bench player, injury replacement for their NT for many years. If you happen to lose users to the point that every domestic team matters or even to 0 users, then every random older player of that nation floating around the world of buzzerbeater counts. If there are none to replace him (yet), he gets his spot by default. The thing whether there is a point to have such a limited national team is another one but for now such team owuld go nowhere and there is no legitimate reason to hinder their play even more.

In addition, such oldies player would still get experience thus getting better in something (whatever it is that experience influences).