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The point of this is to try to reach parity. Yourteam was a finalist in the BBB last season. What in the world are you complaining about? Do you want a successful team or a rich one? I think it more than fair that you get srcubs in the draft. I also think it more than fair that the guy whose player scores 40 a game because he is the only guy scoring should get more $$$ than your balanced team of studs. It might help him improve his team so that he can compete with you, which is what is wanted- a competitive game.

Your soccer analogy is waaaaaaaay off the mark. A striker in soccer is going to be more popular than a defender in 99% of the cases. Here is a better example. More people in Slovenia wear Vujacic jerseys than they do Odom jerseys, even though Lamar Odom is ten times the player Sasha is. Besides I bet more Johnson England jerseys sell in Liverpool than Torres Spain jerseys do.

There are guys who hit 10 homeruns in April (talking baseball now) whose jerseys fly off the shelves. Come June they are hitting .214 with 11 hr's and their jersesy are causing a logjam in the warehouse. What's wrong with that?

Any player is trainable. You have to set some priorities. The BBs are trying to make this a game where you can't have the best of everything. Why is that so hard to understand and so upsetting?

Look at what you have-

A) your team is very siuccessful. You have great attendance at your games. That means more money from ticket sales.
B) your assets. Currently you have 9 players on the market which you value at over 30 million dollars. How many teams could raise that kind of cash if they wanted?
C) You have an 18 year MVP trainee. You say you can't get a good tarinee but you just got one! How do you know what next year's darft will bring? Maybe everyone will do the same.


I do think ratings should play some factor in the merch equation. Then, of course, people will whine about "what about when we play guys out of position?"


Last edited by somdetsfinest at 9/18/2009 4:38:19 AM

Then, of course, people will whine about "what about when we play guys out of position?

*Whine whine*. Thanks for that one. I'm looking forward to the next concern you have ...Let's hope it doesn't get slaughtered by unneccesary, rude remarks.

so just say "before Thursday cup game", instead of saying Wednesday :)

Your soccer analogy is waaaaaaaay off the mark. A striker in soccer is going to be more popular than a defender in 99% of the cases. Here is a better example. More people in Slovenia wear Vujacic jerseys than they do Odom jerseys, even though Lamar Odom is ten times the player Sasha is. Besides I bet more Johnson England jerseys sell in Liverpool than Torres Spain jerseys do.

My god, this IS waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off the mark! :-D Neither Vujacic nor Odom play in Slovenia, do they? We are not talking about how many player's jerseys are sold in the country he's born but how many of them are sold in the country he is playing at the moment.

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ok, then why do we play BB? let´s roll dice, in dice we have same chance! and why BB-mans wrote that best teams will have best players? it is not right - I have 1 of the best, 3 very good, 1 good, 4 rookies, 3 bench players - and I am on edge with sallaries! By your opinion - BB-mans must write - we want to have all teams average !!!

vide 2. paragraph
ok, choose another expample - Rooney and Ronaldo last season ... Rooney is domestic striker, Ronaldo is attacking midfilder/forward, foreign, and better that Rooney. which jerseys are most sold? Rooney because he is domestic? not ...
Why do you wrote about slovenia peoples with jersey of player which play in NBA? This example is out, this event doesn´t turn up (no NT matches this season) ... And from where do you know what Slovenia people wear? I think that more Ronaldo´s jerseys are sold in Slovenia then

vide 3.
you are right, some merchandise boost when player have hot game this week is good idea. but it si not implemented now.

vide 4.
"Any player is trainable" - what?? minimum potential is superstar to have chance reach my requirement for A-team. and you are on similar level !

vide 5.
a, my attendance go down this season. lower attendance - lower income
b, I play this game for 6 seasons, 1-2 hours per day! I was daytrader - and I must start daytrading again, no other way to stay on top after this season changes. Therefore I am rich team.
c, I have a big luck last draft, and it is because other managers of Czech 1. league puffed at scouts.

edit vide 5. c, : and my drafted player is dramatically worse than my another 3 players for training ....


Last edited by bik_76 at 9/18/2009 9:03:20 AM

About merchandising I have to say that this solution I find a lot better than having every international player have 15% extra salary.

20% extra sallary is feature of HT only, without similarity in real world.

"In other economic news, the worldwide downturn has reminded both players and owners that BuzzerBeater salaries cannot continue to rise forever. The best players in the game might be getting better, but the best teams aren't taking in any more money, and so player salaries will begin levelling out. Player skills will continue to develop normally, but each offseason the players union will scale salaries to match the total revenue available for them to distribute. Those who have been using salary as a proxy for overall skill should be warned that this relationship will be changing."

Is it implemented now? please write this cap. if it is not implemented then please write result of your salary cap formula for this season. We have chance to plan our transfers/salaries when we know this result only. If we don´t know it then big salary player transfer is lottery only.

Sorry for my english.
Bye, Jiri

Im goign to try to add another point of view:

I think BB's are trying to fix how to pay all that overpaid players in some cases not in all.

The idea of having a player on his nt in fact of merchandising is going to help, but be realistic only the overpaids players go to the nt so its obviously that it wont help a lot just a litle bit... I think u thought that all this economy changes would help all the teams, and i think u are wrong. BB-Forrest stated it, this changes will help the litle teams because they had a lot of troubles to have a good economy during the week and there was a real imbalance beetwen big and little teams. For example a little team cant afford his star draft player with a high salary and lot of teams were forced to sell them with the old economy system so now they are helped to not selling his best player and it comes to my mind especially those who trained C or PF with 21-22 years they have big salaries.

About having players from your same country its a really good idea. For example big teams in Spain will have better options to find interesting players than one from Japan or Filipinas or little countrys for example, because there is a real imbalance between little countrys and big countrys(speaking about communities) so im really happy about the new changes in economy the game is going to be more balanced.

"For example a little team cant afford his star draft player with a high salary and lot of teams were forced to sell them with the old economy system so now they are helped to not selling his best player and it comes to my mind especially those who trained C or PF with 21-22 years they have big salaries"

Do you think that it is right when 3.division teams have same level of players as 1.division teams?


vide 2. paragraph
yes, it is good for big countries. this is second time when teams from small countries are penalized - first is TV contracts. I am semifinalist of BBB last year. but I have TV Contract: $ 117 784 only. it is mock. this is "Balance" with big B .....

we never spell out formulas, we only release guiding principles. The major point of the game is trying to optimize strategy, and giving all the formulas exactly would make that a trivial task, and lots of people enjoy trying to reverse engineer them.