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i could try to win both but with my starting PG injured my backup in mediocre GS and now weeks behind where he should be in his training and only 3 good big men i cant win 3 games in a week without thrashing my gs - which other teams dont seem to mind but i dont like

so options are

1) throw gave v pwnage rest everyone and give trainee 48+ minutes - but the % pounding could haunt me again and hard to balance minutes

2) throw cup and just train rookie there - but if he fouls out or is injured he is another week behind

3) go for it, throw caution to the wind, play all my guys 100+ minutes, thrash my enthusiasm and screw my rookie

hmmmm

Definitely number 1...

number 3, I've tried it this season and it works!
i'm speaking from experience here...

OK kids. Almost halfway through the season now. Who's going to take out the title, who's going to be relegated, and who will win the all-important and prestigious 5th spot?

For me, I think Razzles looks in a lot of trouble and may be auto-relegated. Level with the Bears, but with over double the salaries, it looks bleak unless there's big improvement. Apart from him, I expect the Bears to make the most of all the cash they're hoarding very, very soon, and buy up big enough to crawl into 7th (or even 6th, depending on when they make their move) and should easily defeat their opponents in the relegation battle.

I have no idea who is going to go down in the Great 8, though - too close to call, particularly with a big acquisition this week by the West Adelaide Bloods. Plus, he's from Adelaide, which makes him better than most.

Championship - Will be Cowboys v Snuffies/Eagles, with Snuffies/Eagles to take it. Looks pretty clearly between those three teams at this point, they're far stronger than the rest of us. Eagles are flying a little lower than I would have thought, but you can't discount that monstrous roster.

5th: Probably me :/ and West Adelaide Bloods, I think.

everyone always thinks i am crap (dont say anything fat boy) but dont forget

* eagles only beat me by 12 at their arena and they put more effort in
* snuffles only beat me by 1
* jw - identical to eagles they only beat me by 12 at their arena and they put more effort in AND my 2nd best player was injured
* pwnage beat us but we threw that one to get a cup win

having your best player out for 3-4 weeks and then in bad gs for more really sucks, but unless we get 3rd brutal long injury this season we hope to be in the mix at the end

we have got some real hard games coming up and without radislow our offensive flow has taken a massive hit and our big men dont get the ball the way we would like - i still think this is a really really tough league, so many good teams and so deep, sure snuffles, eagles and cowboys have the edge but there are at least 6 in the b8 and 4 in the g8 that still have a chance and the addition of one or two key players can change the balance completly

Time to do that team total salaries again.

Last edited by datzilla at 5/27/2011 12:12:36 AM

yeh do the salaries again! i need an indication on how much i need to spend before the last weeks of the season to keep out of 8th spot!!
jw

well just doing our league is easy

01. The Tasmanian Eagles (38596) 11 $ 674 513
02. Snuffies (38896) 11 $ 363 306
03. The Pwnage (38886) 13 $ 337 062
04. West Adelaide Bloods (196127) 11 $ 319 932
05. Cowboys From Hell (196291) 12 $ 303 583
06. Rampaging Marmots (38832) 9 $ 297 121
07. Melbourne Goldfish (38642) 11 $ 294 637
08. DownUnder Thunder (38838) 14 $ 292 951
09. The Meateors (38699) 10 $ 288 534
10. Da Fat Boy Slim (196263) 14 $ 288 032
11. Razzle Dazzles (38712) 10 $ 273 234
12. Sand Dune Scorpions (196258) 13 $ 215 245
13. JW City Bulls (38667) 14 $ 207 358
14. skjim (196751) 10 $ 186 496
15. Aussie Battlers (38691) 12 $ 184 200
16. Yarra Park Bears (38601) 11 $ 99 031

so everyone from snuffles to razzledazzles are packed in to the 270k-360k range really nothing in it

we have low salaried teams and look how well jw has done with a pitiful roster almost like a tanker yet 3rd on the ladder - it just seems to be a standard feature of the personality of this league that we are always super soft on new teams and let them grab tons of free wins

no the cup is over skijm, bloods, battlers and scorpions need to think about what they are going to do to survive, 8th is gone and i wouldnt want to be in 6th or 7th possibly facing thunder or the bears once they finally buy a roster

hahaha yeh take it easy at your own peril, I have been pretty fortunate though with some wins, though I do think my team is more balanced and playing more than 1 tactic.
Though I am only 1 big purchase away from the middle of the pack. 1 100k player is going to shoot my salary up to $307k, which would see me ranked #5.
I think the team with the best salary to wins ratio is the Cowboys, they have the 5th highest salary but have an unbeaten record.
jw

Oh, don't get me wrong - I'd have you 4th in the whole league, I think. But, Snuffies and Eagles will just be that much better than everyone else when the playoffs hit, I feel.

what the hell.... tassy eagles is paying more salary now in div2 then he did when he was in the ABBL last season!

well the good thing is, there is still plenty of time left in the season, anything can happen...