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you must be very stupid to bankrupt

None of that.

When it gets personal is when we have a problem.

actually who said managing a team is easy!

for example, you cant sell all your good or best players and hope to develop the young ones and you tank on the losses and rant you cant get enough money!

this is healthy on your economy at the start with the boost of sudden big amount of cash, but in the long run you dont get attendee's so you suffer.

an example in real life is the LA Clippers, when the owner wouldnt want to get good guys which is = big salaries, so what happens their attendance were the worst and the only time they get people to come is when the kobe, or some really big stars come to your town. imagine they let guys like danny manning, ron harper on their best years go! so when they were able to convince the owner here comes brand and etc. so are they competitive now.

your merchandise sales also reflect on what your team is, if your team sucks would people buys their jerseys unless you got a lebron type players that get 30 pts 10 rebs 10 assist on a losing streak. imagine have you heard of loy vaught? ( unless your a fantasy geek) in case you dont know he was the star on the clippers sucks team that time.

let us not forget, the key here is making a competitive team while not making much strain on your expenses. meaning what you earn a week on your home games should be bigger than your weekly expense. this way you get to be afloat on your money.

now if you have a competitive team meaning you can win more than 50% of your games, or you think you are winning meaning if you see your attendance full or 85% full start building or better yet if you can do both at the same time getting wins and build your arena. slowly your making a buzz and people are coming.

choosing players, you dont need to get a player with skills of almost everything average to respectable, just think what you need meaning if you need a low post guy then look for inside scoring, rebs, if your the run and gun type go with outside shooting. just see what skills you need and its how you use them. no matter how they are good for example in outside shot but you center plays inside your going to count more on inside shot than that.

hope this helps

I picked up a team that was near the bottom of the standings in my division last year and through good managing, I assume, made it finish 1st this year and have had no financial problems. I was very careful to start off with, found cheap players on the market that could help my team, won some games, made more money and improved my team.
It's not hard to stay out of bankruptcy if you're careful at the beginning.

you'll recieve 3 youngsters at the beginning of the next season.

which means 3 potential sales, which should probably cover up the 165.000 loss.

just be patient and think things through before they happen, not a week or two, I mean WAY before they happen.

Strategy people...

let me tell you guys how i manage my team when i first started this game, which is just the 2nd week of season 3.

when you first started the game, attendances are always low, i've been through it, so what i did is just cut off some expenses, like try selling off or fire guys that i don't use until i just have 12 players. this way this i can sve up to $15k per week in salaries. i just hire a lvl 5 trainer n didn't hire other staff.
after the all star week then the attendances are high (still lvl 1 pr manager), n i get a decent surplus per week. then i started buying players to strengthen the squad, expand the arena, hiring higher lvl staff, pay the draft scout , etc but i still didn't go overboard with my expenses

basically what i'm trying to say is always try to balance your expenses with ur income. the same thing also apply to other management game, even in REAL LIFE

Dispite of our divergences thanks PatjeBono for you constructive and valuable opinion.

Hehe, calm down my friend, I even said: no offense. I wasn't attacking you.

I just meant to say that it isn't fair to blame managers' mistakes to the so called 'bad economy in game'. While others can have a healthy economy.

Edited by PatjeBono (1/16/2008 12:42:50 PM CET)

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 1/16/2008 12:42:50 PM

hey guys, share of opinions here. lets take it easy on the jaw biting!

if you see your team having more than 15 players, analyze if your using all of them. if your not wouldnt it be best to sell or cut the weakest. now that removes the so called excess baggage.

next on your staff dont panic on getting PR manager if your a losing team ( no matter how good your PR or marketing is doing if your team sucks no one gives interest in it)

just get a trainer starting on level 4-5 ( for starters ), keep the doctor at level 1( unless your injury prone team)

now next, on your remaining members, check who you always play and dont. those who you think is clicking to your style of play. those probably will be your top 6-8 players. then those who are having good stats but arent utilize sell em.

but in the process of selling them look for replacements that could be at least near them, most probably this guys salary are lower but since they are bench players since you have 6-8 good players making your team, they can have time to jell ( just practice )

i remember i have a bench player his a decent guy, i dont use him often but on one practice he explodes on a 50 point game. i sell him quick and got 60k in return.

those good players you have but arent getting any playing time just sell em, you got to realize this players has family, bills to pay etc so make them earn that money their getting and maybe next year they could get a better contract.

now that you got rid of those high paying salary guys that arent utilize, and got new to be develop guys in your team. you have now accomplish what you call a semi rebuilding of your expenses.

always the same song...

i finished 5th and there's 3 weeks without tickets...

45k (10 players)
15k (1+5+3)

60k x 3 weeks = 180 of sure loses...
4500 income merchandising... x 3 weeks

-165 000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who can mantain this economy??

the ones that don't trow away their TV money if they predict they will finish fifth in the conference....

At this moment a team can run on TV money only. So I think there is a little too much income.
If you see the prises of the players on the market, you can also see that several hundred dollars is not such a huge amount.

Ofcourse, no matter how much money one gets, it can always be spend wrong, and that's when we can get into trouble.

I run a team with 24 players, I think I never had onder 20 players this season, several weeks I even had as much as 33 players. I talk about 130k in wages here, add 35k wages for staff, still my economy is prety healthy.
And don't come telling me I have it from daytrading, because I got most of it from revenue and training players and selling them. (yes I also trained a bunch, what did everyone think, I got lucky daytrading all the time?)

Ok, let's all respect the forums rules and calm down.

Don't want to ban another user.

Thank you for understanding.

I got to agree and fully support game economy..especialy now when the game is kinda starting it is EASY to improve your team!! Such a fast training is givin' u so many oppurtunities, just use them!! This is my first season and I am 300k black and upgrading arena..