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Honestly, who likes to watch a team that persistently choose which games to play ??

How can you train 18 year old rookie Point Guard at Center and still be competitive in top divisions?

Managers will start to think differently because they will not be able to set up 5 player roster for 4 weeks. They will start to set up a realistic 8+ player rotation

If I set more than 5 players, my rookie with atrocious stamina will be subbed before end of game, and won't gain the needed 48 minutes.


The unrealistic training system has huge part in these two points.

I see nothing realistic in playing point guard at center to train his layup, dunking, post moves, rebounding.

Well, I tanked last season - for personal reasons I wasn't able to follow the game properly - from Brazil Liga Nacional to divII, during tanking I used to make +300k/week, now in div II I bought some players to be competitive and I'm making -200k/week, my revenues from attendance dropped significantly, from ~450k/game to ~170k/game, TV contract is 100k less than before, so it's not so easy to raise back to the same level. Ok, now I have a considerable amount of cash to spend and I can afford to lose money for 1 season, but nothing guarantees that I'll be able to go back to divI.

So what I think is that the key to avoid tanking is to tweak the fan survey and make it more sensitive to losses in a row. It's not reasonable to have your arena full if you have been suffering severe losses game after game. 3 or 4 sweeps should be enough to cut your home attendance by half at least. This could make a huge impact on elite teams that decide to tank deliberately.



Last edited by LA-Bernspin at 5/31/2012 11:39:15 AM

It's seldom about the first pick, it's mostly about making money while playing with a roster below player salary floor.