This is just ridiculous. These aren't even long term moves either...
Yiorgos Aggelikos, $275k, age 33
Miguel Campaspero, $187k, age 33
Kajetan Krajza, $143k, age 31
Boriss Bronka , $115k, age 33
It's a complete travesty if Kentucky doesn't even win their own conference. Let alone DII overall.
Top 5 for Kentucky: $387k
Top 5 for RSAS: $760k (and growing)
See, this is why BB really sucks sometimes. (injuries aside). SMH...
I guess I ought to respond to this, if for no other reason than to keep our forums lively.
1- How is it a
travesty if Kentucky doesn't win? I did feel like he had a better squad than me, but RSAS is the team sitting in 1st place in the Big 8, and we did it with a roster that was about 150k/week less than Kentucky. Every win came pre-upgrade except for rolling over a bot this last Saturday. So maybe we are the team that really deserves all the efficiency rah-rah "this is how BB
should be played" accolades?
2- RSAS has been playing to win all season. We promoted up with a nice team, we added Campaspero 6 weeks ago, this is not tanking all year just to try to compete right before the relegation match so we can have our cake and eat it too. We have been competing all season.
3- I can't remember a season since the economy flipped where I didn't expect contenders and relegation teams to add talent as the playoffs approached. I think it is pretty standard practice now. It looks like Kentucky is possibly looking to do the same thing currently? Maybe because this forced his hand, but also maybe I just beat him to the punch? A match-up with you in the finals would provide just as much incentive to upgrade as a match-up with my restructured team. The only one who benefits from the Big 8 not making any moves is the Great 8 finals team (aka your team, probably).
4- Why are these not even long term moves? It's not a long term move to try and promote to the NBBA? I think this team (or something very close to it) is relatively sustainable in the NBBA, especially if on the promotion bonus and in the cup. Trying to get to the NBBA and entrench yourself there to reap the financial rewards sounds like a reasonable long term strategy to me.
5- I think a lot of this outrage is just sour grapes. You spent a lot of money to keep your NBBA team together all season following demotion, and now instead of being an easy one-and-done re-promotion, you may end up facing a more difficult finals either through RSAS or another retooled team out of the Big 8. Were you going to forfeit the finals to let Kentucky win since he was so deserving? Why carry the highest team salary in the league all season if it were going to be such a tragedy if you won II.3?
edit: fyi I am from Milwaukee, we could potentially duke this out (with words) over a beer sometime if you wanted, unless of course you are actually in shikago?
Last edited by J-Slo at 2/4/2013 9:29:49 PM