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From: TnT

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257371.11 in reply to 257371.10
Date: 5/1/2014 8:44:35 PM
Beware of Dogs
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My worry about the take it-it-all approach is that I'll end up with nothing ... not promoting and not very well trained trainees. To guarantee a promotion spot is to get to finals and that would mean beating Euro Step floater on the road ... an uphill battle at the moment. With my luck, I will end up trying & fail miserably ... and lose some $$$ in the process.

What about you, abu? What is you plan for your team? I thought for sure you were taking the all-in approach (a guess from your purchases) but I see that you're training as well.

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257371.12 in reply to 257371.11
Date: 5/1/2014 8:57:29 PM
Jumpstop Jumpers
III.11
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My approach is to win now, and train. I have 3 really good SF trainees that'll be the catalyst to success for my team. I'm hoping anyway.
I acquired an advanced trainer for my trainees and I believe he'll serve his purpose well enough. If I can promote, take the promotion money and expand arena at that point. I believe a large arena is imperative to success in the higher leagues so I'm really hoping I can balance the three points to winning later on with the increased revenue of the higher leagues.

My main goal is to win now and I'm hoping with the pieces I've put together I can do that.

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257371.13 in reply to 257371.12
Date: 5/1/2014 9:24:42 PM
Beware of Dogs
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My approach is to win now, and train. I have 3 really good SF trainees that'll be the catalyst to success for my team. I'm hoping anyway.
I acquired an advanced trainer for my trainees and I believe he'll serve his purpose well enough. If I can promote, take the promotion money and expand arena at that point. I believe a large arena is imperative to success in the higher leagues so I'm really hoping I can balance the three points to winning later on with the increased revenue of the higher leagues.

My main goal is to win now and I'm hoping with the pieces I've put together I can do that.



A very sound plan and you're executing it well .. great job! A comment on the arena, I found it to be most effective to have the arena built up first before the promotion. This way you maximize the attendance boost. It might not matter much at the level we're at though. I was doing exactly what you said here up to DII when I found that it wasn't good enough. I was putting all of my money into my arena and I couldn't field a team good enough to compete. My second trip up to DII was much better (and easier) because by then my focus was just to promote to the next level.

From: abu

To: TnT
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257371.14 in reply to 257371.13
Date: 5/1/2014 9:29:19 PM
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i dont have a choice but to train from this point on, i have invested about 100k for my arena, and that is it for now. i have 3 solid but aging pickups which will serve me now upto next season, i still need to get a young SF/

we better pray that euro step be called for a travelling violation once we face him again

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257371.15 in reply to 257371.13
Date: 5/3/2014 7:09:41 AM
Jumpstop Jumpers
III.11
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Oh I believe an expanded arena now would be better to maximize promotion bonus, but I don't think it'll matter too much at this point so early on.
I think this season could get interesting, a couple teams just need one player or so to really make me sweat about promoting, but as of right now I believe I have the strongest roster. And the deepest.
I mostly just wish we all got some of that cup revenue >.>

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257371.16 in reply to 257371.15
Date: 5/3/2014 8:24:37 AM
Beware of Dogs
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Yeah, I hear you on the CUP thing. 50k at this level is big.

Another thing that is interesting to track (but not visible to us) is everyone's training plan. Are people training offense/defense/mixed? There are limited training sessions with so many pros/cons in which approach to take. We'll see how that play out in the PO.

From: abu

To: TnT
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257371.17 in reply to 257371.16
Date: 5/3/2014 11:44:37 AM
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i Pmed BB Marin regarding the utopia cup. he said that they accomodated the first 64 leagues only. since we are league 68 we miss the scheduling. but with the 50k we miss for every win then we are at a disadvantage versus the first 64 leagues.
winning 3 to 4 CUP games is 150 to 200k which you can use for arena build up , 2 to 3 strong trainees or a very good veteran

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257371.18 in reply to 257371.16
Date: 5/4/2014 2:24:29 AM
Jumpstop Jumpers
III.11
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Yea and the stronger teams of course have a better chance at making it to the higher rounds that met more money per game.
It gives those first 64 teams a huge advantage over us.. I guess I'm hoping I can sell one of my trainees at some point and make up for the loss of the cup. Also why i went the SF training route.

Very interesting on the training note, also could depend on the age of the players purchased. If they're 19, it could drastically change the training plan. I luckily have one 18 yo so I'm going to do a hybrid training, this season IS/ID and OD, next season go guard heavy with one on one and more OD. It's tricky to try and guess another teams training plan.

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257371.19 in reply to 257371.17
Date: 5/13/2014 4:12:08 AM
MightyMice
III.3
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i Pmed BB Marin regarding the utopia cup. he said that they accomodated the first 64 leagues only. since we are league 68 we miss the scheduling. but with the 50k we miss for every win then we are at a disadvantage versus the first 64 leagues.
winning 3 to 4 CUP games is 150 to 200k which you can use for arena build up , 2 to 3 strong trainees or a very good veteran

it's a big pity as a balanced tournament would have been a very intriguing challenge - everybody starting at the same level, let's the best winning.

PS 1 ball at "my best player will not be sold". I would be keen on selling any of them, but I have a bunch of horrible players....

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257371.20 in reply to 257371.19
Date: 5/18/2014 2:55:11 PM
Jumpstop Jumpers
III.11
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2121
Any last minute guesses as to who'll make the allstar squad/3 point shooting contest???

If any on my roster makes it.. It'll probably be Kwok Chi Cang or Gutierrez.

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257371.21 in reply to 257371.20
Date: 5/19/2014 4:00:14 AM
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i 'd say lucas westbury, but he got injured for 2 weeks, so my best bet for the all star team is kim moiroux

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