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I think there are different definitions of tanking (in this game) and the definition being used in this thread definitely suggests that tanking is losing on purpose, which I think is a major mistake for just about any team.

If you are 90k in debts then you are in no risk of losing your team. According to game manual:
"If you go into debt, you will be charged a 5% penalty each week until you are positive again at the time of a economic update. If you drop below -$500k, you must get out of debt within two weeks or your key players will be put on the transfer list at a starting price of zero. If after selling your players you are still not out of bankrupcy, you will be fired as manager at the next economic update. Bankrupcy is calculated first in the economic update and active bids on your players do not count as money you have to avoid bankruptcy."

As it is written, you first need to have 500k debt and then you need to repeat this for two weeks.

I don't know what salary floor you got in your division but surely you must make a profit with minimum salaries? If not your staff costs must be ridiculous and you should immediately sack stuff to get back on profit on a weekly basis.

One way of getting good help is that you actually post your "Baseline weekly income" numbers.

From what I read I am sure that you are in no crisis at all economically. Your poor economy will of course give you poor chances of competing in your division but that is something very different than to lose your team. Looks like if you are ready to adjust your spendings to what you can afford you will be very far from bankrupcy.

And I agree that losing on purpose is not a good choice. But you might have to weaken your team to just accept that you will win very few matches. The income from winning matches should be better economically than to make sure to finish last and to get the first draft pick.

Thanks alot bro

Basically what everybody else said, and even with a good team it takes 3-4 S to get through IV.10

Don't buy 270k centers anymore and you will have easier time playing the game.

There's no salary floor in D4 (iirc), and even with the relegation penalty he'll have no problem making money in D5 with a big arena, since he'll be winning all his games.

What is "cowardly" about this exactly? Why play the game if you have to spend precious time and money just to slightly advance on the treadmill of mediocrity that is the USA leagues, only to be stopped by the old money in the pros once you get there? If he's not saving money now and building for the future, don't delude him into having any sort of ambition. Tanking and training is the financially prudent move.

Last edited by 五毛党 at 9/6/2012 3:45:41 AM

There's no salary floor in D4 (iirc), and even with the relegation penalty he'll have no problem making money in D5 with a big arena, since he'll be winning all his games.

What is "cowardly" about this exactly? Why play the game if you have to spend precious time and money just to slightly advance on the treadmill of mediocrity that is the USA leagues, only to be stopped by the old money in the pros once you get there? If he's not saving money now and building for the future, don't delude him into having any sort of ambition. Tanking and training is the financially prudent move.

There is a floor in IV, though it's hardly noticeable (80% of TV contract).

I wouldn't call it "cowardly" exactly myself, but on the other hand I think it's definitely a much more interesting challenge to try to compete while at the same time focusing on training and building the arena and infrastructure. If your solution to an increasing challenge is to run from it until you can stockpile enough money to overcome it, you'll never be able to compete without that financial advantage.

Yes the unfortunate thing about the Buzzer Beater help forum is that 75% of the people trying to give an answer to a legitimate question haven't had nearly enough experience to actually give a helpful answer. I used the word "Cowardly" because as you say instead of trying to fix a situation that one finds themself by simply working hard at it they run from it and hope they get lucky down the road.

Hmmmm sounds like all the pathetic people I see down at the Seven Eleven scratching lottery tickets over the trash barrel.

I've been playing since Season 12, in case that was at all directed at me.

Classy, by the way, laughing at the desperation of people trying to escape a system designed to hold them down. Granted, BB isn't nearly as important as reality (to most of us), but the USA leagues become a massive treadmill if you overspend trying to get out of mid-tier leagues, instead of accumulating a warchest to eventually compete in the pros.