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I disagree, Darryl Meek is worth 6m based off looks alone.

I disagree, Darryl Meek is worth 6m based off looks alone.

You know, the laws have changed...you are free to marry him if you like.

after tonight, i will be able to focus on catching Edju! not my choice, however -- the Bucks made mincemeat of my incompetents.

Hi Procta.

Hi Procta

Please don't mash me in a flash.

whew... (:| the BB gods were looking out for my team during that cup draw.

The BB gods also decided to dish out the absolute best scenario for the rest of us with Procta and Chek drawing each other (party)

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after tonight, i will be able to focus on catching Edju! not my choice, however -- the Bucks made mincemeat of my incompetents.

Yeah about 5 minutes before the game I changed from take it easy to crunch time figured I had no chance in making it anywhere in the playoffs this year.

whew... (:| the BB gods were looking out for my team during that cup draw.

The BB gods also decided to dish out the absolute best scenario for the rest of us with Procta and Chek drawing each other (party)

Yeah I must say this is a worst case scenario. My only consolation is that this is the first round of neutral arena matches, otherwise I would have been in a lot worse shape.

Please don't mash me in a flash. (y)

That is, indeed, the gameplan. We'll see how well we can execute. Looking over your team I have to say I'm super impressed with how well you manage your squad..

after tonight, i will be able to focus on catching Edju! not my choice, however -- the Bucks made mincemeat of my incompetents.

To me, this is where the record-breaking starts getting really impressive! When you started playing BB, Edju was just finishing up hs 7th season in the NBBA, en route to 12 NBBA seasons before he was relegated. You had to start in D5 and work your way up.

Obviously what Brian did puts him in a league of his own...but most of the other teams in the top 7 (except for Brian and Calum) their records are mostly due to just signing up sooner than others, and then the longevity of sticking around.

I don't mean to completely crap on what those guys did, they deserve the records they have...I just feel that as guys start to break those records, they become even more meaningful because of the longer path taken. Only one team in the "modern era" to get close was Calum, and then he suffered from Premature Tankage...unfortunately the pill to prevent that affliction didn't come out until 3 seasons later, and by then it was too late.

But you'll be the first team in the modern area to approach the top 5, and again, that's very impressive!

On a side note, back to Calum...His team was awesome and had plenty left in the tank when he decided to rebuild...If he stuck around for 3 more seasons and averaged over 17+ wins a season, he'd have been in striking distance for passing Coco for #3 on the list...

Like Procta, i appreciate the acknowledgement -- and if you want to know how i really feel, i would point out that Coco and Solana Steve worked out wins per season for the great teams of the past (message= 195299.46 ), and Ice Storm was number one with 15.77 wins / season. this is my 10th season in the NBBA and i have 161 wins . . .

but really no trophies, and there's the rub. i remember you wrote somewhere that managers had a choice -- spend money to win championships today or stick around. i have long thought winning a championship was difficult, but once i reached this level i knewi never wanted to climb that greasy pole again and therefore chose to last as long as possible. i thought i had figured out to do this -- low salary squad, buy one good player each season for around $2 million, and thus basically stay around here forever -- but then all that changed around season 31 or so. now, as we all know, $2 million won't even buy a good bench player, and forget about buying youth.

so now my squad is older than it's ever been -- for god's sake, i have a 39 year old player that i've painfully watched lose a third of his skill points but i can't afford to replace -- and i can see the end. this season was my best chance to win a championship, but there are some terrific squads out there -- HPH especially, but also the Bucks, others, including the aging stalwarts FM and your boys -- so i now anticipate not even making the league championship. next season? changing to the Utopia-style elimination structure will make the league that much more brutal, and i won't worry any more about championships, only survival.

and that is, at best, for only two-three more seasons, i figure. by that time, i might be approaching the all-time top five and leave behind a win total that others will be impressed with. the financial headwinds are simply too much -- someone else is going to have to figure out how to stick around here long enough to challenge KDB's record.

Congrats to both you, and Jason. With your guys' success and longevity in the new era, your teams have become NBBA icons. Very cool.

After my rebuild, I plan on my next title-run in the NBBA to be much longer.