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208432.115 in reply to 208432.114
Date: 2/21/2012 7:04:52 PM
Aussie Pride
ABBL
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Braithwaite ended up going to a top division Lebanon team for 1.7 million. Same guy who owns Radford actually so i hope he knows what he is doing.

Last edited by aussie dude at 2/21/2012 7:08:07 PM

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208432.116 in reply to 208432.115
Date: 2/21/2012 7:11:48 PM
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I was in a bidding war with him, but it was getting beyond what was reasonable for a II team, considering the cost of keeping him and the cost of buying him..

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208432.117 in reply to 208432.116
Date: 2/21/2012 8:49:47 PM
Koopasaurus
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
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Did the market go belly up or something? Second GFC for sure.

Bought Moylan off you for 2mil and Tully goes for only 1.7mil! Then you go and buy a better guard then Moylan for only 1mil.

Damm I should've just tanked it this season...

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208432.118 in reply to 208432.115
Date: 2/21/2012 8:50:04 PM
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Oh FFS!!! That manager have been fielding a 6 player rotation in all of his matches so far this season. Not looking good. Even Radford was already going to be on fringe gameshape all season, now Braithwaite also?

Last edited by Whitebeard at 2/21/2012 8:50:32 PM

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208432.119 in reply to 208432.114
Date: 2/22/2012 3:24:32 AM
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How about you getting almost 50% more rebounds with only a slight edge in the rating?


Good point, 56 rebounds to 38, yet the ratings were proficient (high) to proficient (low)

Anyone got an explanation for that

Also I had more turnovers though, my 10 to your 4.

Played "let coach decide", and he decided to lose the game by flogging my starters to exhaustion rather than letting capable bench players come on.

Your backups dont get much time, curious as to how you do your substitutions?

Given the edge I had in players "Game shapes" and it was a TV game it was a horrible horrible loss

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 2/22/2012 3:28:03 AM

From: G_D

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208432.120 in reply to 208432.110
Date: 2/22/2012 6:19:14 PM
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It is not just big men that are cheap. I have seen/heard of muliple 100K SGs selling for around $600k. Almost any dummy now can create a killer team now as long as they have enough savings/income to pay them each week.


Yes now, they can now, can't they now, you should be ok then....now...

From: yodabig

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208432.121 in reply to 208432.120
Date: 2/22/2012 8:48:26 PM
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I am way too far down the path of quality cost effective players to change direction now. If I had just kept all my money I could easily buy a $1 million roster and smash everyone by 30 every week and promote again. But then what? Sell all the young players and train GS each week. Overpaid and underperforming roster that kicks butt in division II and gets beaten in the ABBL. Sounds like a recipe for going nowhere. The trouble is if a team is willing to do it it will be hard to stop them.

Last edited by yodabig at 2/22/2012 8:49:08 PM

From: G_D

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208432.122 in reply to 208432.121
Date: 2/22/2012 10:54:48 PM
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Sure, quality, cost effective players is the way to go...I would not call someone a 'dummy' for going the other way...They have surely earned their right to do it by keeping their money?

From: yodabig

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208432.123 in reply to 208432.122
Date: 2/22/2012 11:05:37 PM
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I wasn't saying that doing it that way makes them a dummy. They could be the best manager and smartest player in the game. However what I am saying is that anyone that has saved for a couple of seasons and has a good bank balance can get a killer team for very little cash with almost no planning right now. As long as you don't want forwards or guys under 32 you can get incredible players for close to nothing. It is really only the weekly salaries that are the issue now.

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208432.124 in reply to 208432.121
Date: 2/22/2012 11:14:21 PM
Koopasaurus
II.4
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300300
Lol there are not many abbl teams that have one million in salary. but everyone it's just one or two big man away from that magical one mil mark.

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208432.125 in reply to 208432.124
Date: 2/23/2012 12:11:14 AM
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That is correct. But just look at the low, low cost of players now. Especially old ones that only have primaries which is what 90% of players on the market seem to be. You can get a 100k PG for 400k, two 100k SG (one with some not horrid secondaries to play SF) for $400k and two $200k big men for less than a million. Add five $50k backups and you are heading towards a $1,000,000 salary team and have only paid a bit over $2,000,000 for them. As I said it is the weekly wages that are the killer, buying players is stupidly cheap. A team with a roster like that would clean up in division II.

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