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You can loan players in EPL, but there is a loan deadline well before the end of the season. And you can't play for more than two clubs in the same season. And the EPL doesn't have finals.

I think what you did was well within the bounds of the game mechanics, and was a very strategic and smart decision based on how BB works, but surely even you must see that this is a huge flaw in the game that needs to be addressed if the goal is to be a simulation game that represents real world mechanics.

Im no historian but I once heard or read somewhere about how around the time of the Boer war the British Generals were flawed in that they believed in the "ethics/conventions of war" and could not accept that their armies were being slaughtered because the enemy armies refused to follow these ethics/conventions and traditions.

Apparantly the game is going to change but for the time being "it is what it is"

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 4/16/2013 2:04:55 AM

time for some Linguistic commentary. gonna play a bit of Devils advocate here.

Firstly, yes - BB is bring in new rules which will hopefully make it less viable fo the tanking and the short term hiring and the selling and the renting and this tactic in general. I think BB are doing good things with regards to this - they got rid of the 5th placed financial advantage thingy, and are bringing in incentives for people to finish in the finals etc.
so these are all good things.
And hopefully this will make the game more realistic, as Akuma says rightly so, no real life situation exists where people can rent Dwight Howard for a week. so hopefully these improvements will make the game more realistic.

Secondly - Just an observation of mine - of all the teams that ive seen tank/buy up big towards end of season, rent a big, etc, ie: Do all these short term gain things - I've never seen one succeed long term. This is why I don't do this tactic. There are multiple teams in this league that have the capacity to do it, and have had that capacity to do it yet choose not to. why? Probably because there is something tactically long term wrong with it. I dont mean ethically wrong, i mean, Buzzerbeaterally(new word!)

Thirdly - I was watching a terrible terrible Aliens movie the other day, can't remember what it was, must've been Alien v Predator - "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
If i remember correctly, it didnt work out to well for them.

Congrats to you Hadders you beat me TIE, stuffing up my next home crowd and game shapes in the process.

The better balanced team won, well done

Probably a few people who might think the loss was Karma

I guess there is always next season for me

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 4/16/2013 6:15:49 AM

hahahaha!

Magnificent win Hadders, well done!!!!

Calculation - correct me if im wrong.

2 x Linares Weekly salary - $434,000
Sale Profit (Approx) + $30,000
Cup Winnings + $60,000

Total net loss on Linaries = $340,000
Is that about right?

I only paid the one weeks salary on Linares .

Must admit selling him sort of made up for losing to Hadders.

Profit after tax was $21,040.

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 4/17/2013 2:43:39 AM

Agreed, bringing in rentals should never be a successful strategy. Enforcing a minimum contract period of e.g. 8 weeks would be a much better way of discouraging this strategy.

bah ur right! I suck. i was looking at staff at the same time as writing your post and got it in my head that when you sell someone, you have to pay one weeks salary as a 'transfer fee'.

but thats only with staff. so yes, correction - one weeks salary.

I have to take my hat off to the Coasters - His last 3 cup games he has played opponents with a better ranking than him and come up triumphet.

I have to take my hat off to the Coasters - His last 3 cup games he has played opponents with a better ranking than him and come up triumphet.

Top effort to be one of only 3 teams from this league and the Big 8 left in the cup.

Two games in the cup next week and after the first game it is likely that seven of the eight remaining teams will be from ABBL, it is unlikely that any of us 3 remaining teams will be making the final 4