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Is it normal to be incapable of being competitive to start?

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Date: 10/28/2015 12:24:14 PM
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Seattle Thunders wasn't going exactly well before going to Oklahoma
Man, you just made so many enemies with this casual comment. Seattle Thunder???


Clearly, he meant Vancouver Thunder.


Or perhaps he was referring to the OKC Zombie Sonics.

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Date: 10/28/2015 12:30:26 PM
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I just started playing and got my team at what appears to be the end of the season. My newly-founded team of scrubs played one regulation game, losing 112-63.

Now I'm suddenly in a relegation series I guess which I probably have no chance of winning. Game 1, I lost 85-58, despite doing a perfect prediction in both tactics areas.

I'm just wondering if this is a normal start for this game... to be throw into the game and promptly booted from your level without being able to do anything.

It seems like an odd design choice to force new players to deal with another team's misfortune without having any of the players that causes the situation, but instead be given garbage players who couldn't win if their lives depended on it.

Also the game's pretty confusing to be able to adjust and figure out how to make a team that can compete that quickly since you're essentially building from scratch (not to mention, I wasn't allowed to sign players for the first few days anyway).

Anyone understand the thought process behind this sort of setup?


I underwent the same thing years ago when I started. Plopped right into a DIV season with over half the season gone. Needless to say, I was discouraged, but actually thought I could win my relegation tourney if I could just climb out of last place, so I CT'd my final league game to no avail, not realizing that Game Shape was actually a thing I needed to keep track of (I was playing my best players 120+ minutes per week). I then wrote a fairly heated message wondering how that could have happened and was pretty upset. What followed was an incredibly helpful series of messages with good advice and encouraging me to stay on.

That draft, I got my franchise player (turns 32 at the end of this season).
The next season, I won my DV easily while training and building my arena.
Then a couple seasons in DIV, followed by a long time in DIII, and now I've been in DII for about a year IRL.

So yep... this is normal. Best of luck in the upcoming draft!

Welcome to Buzzerbeater.

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Date: 10/28/2015 1:56:27 PM
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Expect to spend a year in the game before your team is ready to be competitive without sacrificing its future


Which my first season in division 4 I was disappointed toss my cup game to focus on relegation series and rebuild my team to the youngest in my league. So far I have only one player from division 5 that stayed on my team he gets 10 rebound a game every so often. I have consistently maintain a competitive team from day one in division 4. I was in the 4th spot last season I met my goal and made the three spot this season. Now my goal is 3 or higher more preferably 2 or higher in my division my side of the conference. I know I can beat the 2nd team Dinkle Smurfs in my league playoffs if he continues to play base offense man to man. My team is only going to get better each season and salary is going to go higher. Plus I am about finish with my lower tier/luxury boxes. My next goal for the team is to complete lower tier to 500 seats and then work on bleachers and courtside seats. Like you said before finish higher priced seats first then go build lower price seats.

Heading on the right path so far. Are you?
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Date: 10/28/2015 2:34:38 PM
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So am I correct in understanding that I should just pick anyone recent/active in a high league level and see if they're willing to tutor rather than use the thread of people who signed up to be mentors? I noticed some teams linked in the mentor thread are now bots :p

Last edited by Crazy Li at 10/28/2015 2:35:26 PM

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Date: 10/28/2015 3:17:19 PM
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I'd post in the thread before sending direct ingame emails, but that's just me.


Last edited by Lemonshine at 10/28/2015 3:17:34 PM

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Date: 10/28/2015 4:59:46 PM
Monkeykid Maniacs
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Normally, I would too, but the thread's directions say to direct mail and not to post on the thread :/

Last edited by Crazy Li at 10/28/2015 5:00:16 PM

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Date: 10/28/2015 5:59:39 PM
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Haha, fair enough

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274103.21 in reply to 274103.17
Date: 10/28/2015 7:11:00 PM
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You should join the USA offsite: http://s3.zetaboards.com/BuzzerBeater_USA_NT/index/

Mentoring new USA players is what we do! I recommend starting a club team diary so experienced USA managers can give you advice.

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Date: 10/28/2015 10:50:09 PM
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We never had an NBA team in Vancouver, we had the Grizzlies

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Date: 10/29/2015 4:12:30 AM
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First of all, I'd like to say that if you had the old team roster, you could probably not afford to pay their salaries. This is why you had to start from scratch with scrubs. One huge aspect of BB is the economy of your league and level.

Secondly, to correct @Trainerman on one point, you can find a (very) good mentor in lower leagues, at least in the USA leagues and/or some eropeans countries. You have to define first what kind of game you want to play and you'll enjoy: training or climbing the ladder as fast as you want. You will find very good mentors for training in lower leagues, for the latter you'll have to find a GE expert, and that - @trainerman was right - is rather found in someone that played successfully in higher leagues.

whish you the best

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