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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.

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

Thats what scrimmages are for.

You forgot about cup games?

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.

Not only this, but have more variation in the fan moods for how the team is performing. It almost appears to be a binary mood right now: "Did we win, or did we lose?" in all categories: last match, last TV match, rival match. But there doesn't seem to be much at all difference between losing a close game and losing by 75. Having more levels for this and having the fans react sensibly to those would definitely help significantly.