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I love the ideas presented in this topic by everybody. I've been part of BB since season 4 as a free user (that's another story, another day) although I'm not nearly "active" as I was when I began here. I completely agree that for the mobile-user, the current structure of the BB season is too slow and boring. As we move forward in our lives, we get busy and sadly (yes, very sadly), BB takes a backseat to higher priority items. I have forgotten on numerous occasions to login to BB to set lineups and my player's game shape suffers because of it.

I have daydreamed over the years about how awesome it would be if BB would provide us a game (either mobile or on the computer) that was like Front Office Football where I could play it offline (or online). I do not necessarily have to play in a league of real players although that is a great bonus. There are times where I just want to be the owner of the league and simulate a game, make trades, fire and hire staff, etc. and I want to do it in rapid fashion. I paid for FOF and I likely would pay for a BB version (ratings system and all) if it meant I could play the seasons at my own pace, or even create a league with my own close friends/family. This is a game that my son would enjoy if we could do it at our own pace and following our own set of rules.

I have started and quit BB a few times about 5 years ago as I didnt have the patience needed to play and enjoy this game. Going off of the idea of a shorter season to appeal to new users I think that is vital once the app is released. 14 weeks makes for a long season for younger generations.

This comment could go in the suggestions forum, but to make the season shorter, league games could be played on Thursdays. The league games would not start until the last 2, 3, or 4 weeks of the season. As for cup games, take out all of the bot teams so users are only playing other users to shorten cup tournaments. Obviously once your eliminated you can still find scrimmages until league games begin. This may make training minutes a little easier to come by and give managers a better opportunity to make a run in the cup tournaments while not sacrificing as much game shape later in the season to both compete in the cup and league playoffs.

I'm not familiar with when the NT, U21, or BBB tournaments begin pool play and obviously those would need to be shorter some how as well to accommodate a shorter season

The down side with shorter seasons is that it is obviously fewer weeks to train young players. The coefficients would need to be adjusted to make up for this.

A 10, 11, or 12 week season (2 1/2 to 3 month season) to speed things up a little bit and enable users to complete 4 or 5 seasons in a year instead of 3 seasons which it is now.

Less popular idea. Start from scratch. Have the BB app separate from the browser BB universe. 10 team leagues, 8 to 10 week seasons, everything else the same. Start at season 1. This however would split up the BB users and accelerate the end of BB.

Now back to football.

And when the game become faster for new young users what would happen with the old ones? If there is a huge change in the game structure, I will leave. What about the others?

The last posts are full of terrible suggestions, IMO

Players will grow much faster and we will seen benefits of training much quicker.

And also they'll grow old much faster and the skilldrops will be quick ;-)

BB is a game of delayed gratification not instant. For the first couple of seasons I had a team I really did not get into it because of the languid pace. But once I got used to the pace it made a lot of sense, I actually have come to really appreciate the ebb and flow.

What needs to be done is to find a way to give us more between contests. I think this site should make moves towards being more about basketball in general, IE news/opinions from around the globe, there are lots of guys who will do write-ups for free and having this turn into not just a game but a site for international basketball news would give us the potential to reach a whole different audience. Plus that could be done without monkeying around with the GE. I think this combined with a soft sell approach to join the game will bring us more users.