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I would argue you should buy a stop-gap player and compete at D.IV. If you buy him at market value you should be able to sell him back at a similar price next season if you so choose (the market tends to fluctuate for good and bad). This will allow you to remain competitive and continue raking in D.IV income.

You would probably be fine either way, however. One of the good things about this game is there isn't always a clear cut correct decision, just different options. I still maintain you should acquire Guards with high Passing and Handling and raise your flow to mediocre for look inside tactics.

I did, however, notice that you have a poor enthusiasm management strategy. You have been CT'ing the top teams and normaling weaker teams. From what I see, you have not beaten a top team you CT'd (even when they TIE'd) and have probably lost a few you would have won because of weak enthusiasm the next week. Your enthusiasm must be at like 3 now. I would recommend you TIE on games you are greatly outmatched instead of CT. You will have increased chances of winning against beatable teams and will still lose to top tier teams. Division 4 teams rarely manage their enthusiasm properly. Mastering this will be an easy way to 4-5 more wins a season.

I play mostly Look Inside offense, and I use a tag team at power forward:

Jump Shot: proficient Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: awful Handling: mediocre
Driving: average Passing: average
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: strong
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: pitiful

Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: pitiful
Driving: mediocre Passing: inept
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: prominent Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: mediocre

This duo gives me 24 points and 16 rebounds a game, with good shooting percentage and decent assist/turnover ratio in a Look Inside offense. And neither cost very much: The latter player I bought for $130,000 at age 22. The former was one of my original players from when I started the team. You have to really dig for gems in the transfer market, but you can find them. You won't be able to get anyone as good as Ricky Davis' model above, but try to find someone with the same strong points.

And if I was you. and I thought PF was a position that needed upgrade, I would try hard to add a strong player for this season. Your league is so lopsided that added some talent might get you into the playoffs, while the relegation pool could be a very bad matchup for you. See if you can find an older PF that will upgrade your team. Good luck.

To be honest, although they may seem to be doing well because they get 24 points together, their defence is horrible, and so they probably let the opponent score 24 points as well.

Salary by itself doesn't mean much. Especially in the lower leagues, you will find the higher salaried guys are due to the fact that player has 1 really high skill and crappy everything else.

e.g. Assuming everything else is equal, an 14 IS and 4 ID will have a salary that is significantly higher than one that is 9 IS and 9 ID.

You need to find players that fit your strategy. Having 1 inflated skill is not going to get you very far when you go up against better teams.

Maybe he wants to play a 1-3-1 zone without losing his rebounding edge :P haha

Although I do agree that 16 rebounding is a bit of overkill, it certainly won't hurt your team too much except that it costs you a few thousand more in salary each week.

It sort of does hurts his team though in that he spent 1.3mil for a player that, if you covered up rebounding and just looked at his other stats, might not sell for 100k.

How much would a player with identical stats but a 9 in reb vs. a 16 sell for: 300k? Is the extra rebounding worth $1 million? I'm not saying he got ripped off or anything, 1.3mil is probably about right for a 16 in something like rebounding. I'm sure he will be able to re-sell this guy for the same or more if he trains him. I'm just saying could his team have gotten more talent for the buck? Maybe.

Yeah I understand where you are coming from. But I think that he paid a decent price for what the player. And I believe the extra rebounding is worth 1 million dollars. The reason being that if he has 9 rebounding then he would be on par with most players in his league or even worse than some and so that 300k he would spend would put him equal with the rest but not better. Having 16 rebounding can be a huge advantage, because if he also has a great defence then that means a lot of missed shots which your player will most likely rebound due to his high rebounding skill.

And the player is 22 years old, which means he can still be trained pretty well. So give the player 3 or 4 pops in inside shot and maybe a pop or 2 in inside defence and you could probably resell the player for over 2 million.