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From: elboss
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Date: 10/30/2007 1:59:20 AM
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Guys,

noob here.

We are given 18 players and we can field only 12. Is it worth keeping the 6 additional players?

What should the size of the team be? Say 15 to take care of injuries?

cheers

/elboss

From: dennis54

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Date: 10/30/2007 4:52:37 AM
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yes, but there are 2 league games each week, and either a Cup game or scrimmage, for a total of 3 games each week. If a player plays alot of minutes then his chances of injury increase and "Practice this week" goes down, which means they will not play up to their potential.

and allowing for injuries, you probably need to keep most of your original 15, and can parse down a few. I now have 20 on my roster after getting 3 in the draft, and I have sold off one, and am going to fire 1-2 in the coming weeks.

From: jimrtex

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Date: 10/30/2007 5:18:40 AM
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You might need a bit more than 12 because there are 3 games per week, and too many minutes are bad for form (called "practice" in BB), just as too few minutes are. I started with 18, sold one, and just picked up 3 more in the draft, and so I have started to trim back again.

You might experiment a little bit, since you might have players who have different skills, but who might be the best player in different situations.

From: Vikman

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Date: 10/30/2007 5:35:26 AM
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I would say 15-16 players is a good amount.

From: alexis38

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Date: 10/31/2007 12:07:15 AM
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I have fourteen at the moment because it is really hard to pay more players that that. How can you pay for almost 20 players?

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Date: 10/31/2007 12:41:50 AM
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For form and training you want to play about 48 minutes right?

Hence, if you're playing 3 games a week, you need 3 game * 5 players/game = 15 players.


Steve

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Date: 10/31/2007 4:43:26 PM
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Actualy we need only min. 5 players...coz we dont have to change our starting 5 every game...but it would be great to have more then 15(maybe some can be injured,tired or something like that...)

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4594.8 in reply to 4594.7
Date: 11/1/2007 1:43:19 AM
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Ok. Cool. So about 15-16 is good, although some people stock up to 20.

My problem is that as a noob, I'm having problems seeing how my economy is gonna turn out.

I haven't had a home match yet, so I don't quite know how much money that can make. Right now I'm hemhoraing about 50K a week. I wonder if that's doable (and I didn't get a new coach yet!)

Killing/selling a couple of low level players might help...

/elboss