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From: kecal
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Date: 9/21/2023 1:39:09 AM
Vilniaus „Vilkai“
II.2
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6161
Second Team:
Iron Dogs
We've all seen those really old players continuing their careers as some kind of team talismans. It's a joke, most of the time, I get it, but, honestly, something should be done about it. Or are we waiting for players who would get 120+ years old? (Sorry, I do not really care to inquire about who the oldest BB player currently is.)

Don't know much about the BB code, but my hope is there could be a solution, starting from maybe 60 years old, to introduce a steadily increasing chance for a player to die. I think it will have to be done, sooner or later. Maybe the time is now?

Your thoughts?

From: kecal

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321510.3 in reply to 321510.2
Date: 9/21/2023 4:05:24 AM
Vilniaus „Vilkai“
II.2
Overall Posts Rated:
6161
Second Team:
Iron Dogs
Yes, auto-retirement would be most welcome. Also, hopefully, easier to implement

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321510.4 in reply to 321510.2
Date: 9/21/2023 4:14:49 AM
Kira Kira Koseki
II.3
Overall Posts Rated:
779779
Second Team:
Yubi Yubi
Auto retirement would be great. I know some like the whole atrocious 60's thing, but I want to be able to gracefully retire the guys I drafted and trained up to NT standard over a full career, and right now the only way to do that is to wait for them to decline to the point where no-one else would want them even if they end up on free agency, and then callously fire the player.

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321510.5 in reply to 321510.4
Date: 9/21/2023 5:39:57 AM
AS Barroom Heroes
III.2
Overall Posts Rated:
10191019
Second Team:
Lone Pine Productions
As an owner ho has 3 70+ year-olds on his team and one 49 year-old, I am definitely in favor of autoretirement (50/55/60, whatever).
I just can't bring myself to firing these guys who have been on my team for a decade plus in real-life years, but after a while it does get a bit ridiculous.

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321510.6 in reply to 321510.5
Date: 9/21/2023 5:53:39 AM
AS Barroom Heroes
III.2
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10191019
Second Team:
Lone Pine Productions
Also, non auto-retirement (meaning, the owner chooses to retire a player) could also be an option, obviously after a certain age (50?), when they are of no use to national teams.

From: jbielsa

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321510.7 in reply to 321510.2
Date: 9/21/2023 7:58:41 AM
El Lobo-Lu Jujeño
LNA
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4040
I agree!

Also this could have another benefits but for example, that the server run faster, not keeping info of useless players(I don't know, I'm not a code programmer neither engineer), or be more used the "hall of fame" option instead of keeping the player. And why not as others users said, the option to keep the player; but don't seem realistic to have a 50 years old player without skills.

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321510.8 in reply to 321510.1
Date: 9/22/2023 9:02:16 AM
Dynamo J. Hradec
První liga
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493493
I like old players. They're cheap to fill the holes in the lineup.

And what about injury prolongation at higher age? At some point the injury will be permanent. And there can be retirement at 99 age to complete the task.

From: velnes

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321510.11 in reply to 321510.1
Date: 9/23/2023 11:19:14 AM
FK “Šturmas”
III.8
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9999
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velnynas
I would suggest mixing this up with staff members. At the moment promoting an old player to a staff member doesnt make sense because of the wage. Market is way more friendly if you buy a cheaper salary coach. what if we reduced the wages of retired players as staff members by ~30% and reduce the weekly wage increase by 50%, BUT only players aged 45-50 are eligible for this and if You dont do it until they turn 51, they retire from buzzerbeater move to a small town in west France and open a patisserie like they have always dreamed of.