BuzzerBeater Forums

I'm not sure how active the thread still is, but you might want to take a look here: (144070.1). It's a mentoring program for US coaches. They'll pair you up with an experienced player to help you learn the game. At first glance, this game may seem easy to learn, but believe you me, there's a lot more to it, and player management is a crucial part of it.

My suggestion to you is this: Definitely keep Bowie. With proper training, he could really turn into a beast. Since he's a big man, you're going to want to pick up some more young big men for him to train with. I would not look at any potential lower than superstar (maybe star, but that's definitely the lowest you should look at). Preferably 18, but no older than 19. Don't overpay for your youngsters. I'd say at least 3 youngsters, but ideally, if you can afford it, 6. Play them at PF/C. When your financial situation can afford it, buy some decent guys to play PG, SG, and SF. You don't need big salaries at this level. I won DV with no player over $10k.

While your team is a playing very well, you are in a very weak league, full of weak low salary(even for Divsion 5) plsyers. If you promote, you will be blown out of the waters.

Yeah, i know i won't win in a stronger league, but right now i'm just training players so my team can improve. I'm building for the future, not really worried about winning right now though. I'm trying to get all of my players who are under 25 years old, in certain abilities that i like for certain positions, to respectable or higher.

Cut your roster down to 11-12 players. that will help a lot.

I love coaches lacking common sense, it makes it easier for me to win.

You should only have 3 trainable players (or 6 if you do the IMO worse 2 position option). It's perfectly fine to have older players as long as you're not spending time training them.

Yeah, i don't train older players, the thing i enjoy the most about this game is the training of players and seeing them improve.

Thank you manon for your help, i appreciate it and i'll take your advice, and thank you all for your answer, you're all intelligent folks here.

Brain Buster - everyone seems to have advise on how to manage your roster, so I will not chime in there.

Instead, I will offer to you a valuable suggestion that will potential reap much benefit to you: when you have money, consider investing it into your arena, instead of acquiring young players. Your arena is your lifeblood, and you have only added 5 seats to date. For now, build some lower tier, courtside and maybe a couple of luxury boxes. Also lower your bleachers price so that you can fill all those seats, and then start adding lots of bleachers.

Once you have this set up right, then start acquiring players - once the revenue piles in, your will find managing your finances much easier.