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To answer your first question, my other drafts' best prospects had 5 star ratings with 4 potential. This draft, in terms of star ratings, potential, and the amount of solid prospects, it's 10x better than my others.. I think the minimum for a 5 star potential athlete is superstar, still not what I want, though, but I'll take that over what I've been getting. (However, I could be wrong. I think Gosling was a 4 star rating with 5 potential -- ended up being a P-AS).

I have a question about my arena development that I hope someone doesn't mind helping me with. Here is my current seating capacity:

9100 Bleachers
1250 Lower
300 Courtside
15 Luxury Boxes

I know I am woefully behind in building up my arena for D 2 standards. What would be the most efficient use of my money to start with? I can't break the bank to do everything at once unfortunately. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Just a quick run through of your current arena prices vs. construction costs:

1 bleacher seat = $200. Current price = $13. Result: needs to sell 15.38 times to recover investment.
1 lower tier seat = $700. Current price = $48. Result: needs to sell 14.58 times
1 courtside seat = $2000. Current price = $145. Result: needs to sell 13.79 times
1 luxury box = $16000. current price = $975. Result: needs to sell 16.41 times.

Of course that's not the full picture, because you're not always selling out some of those seats as is, so you'd need to factor that in. The boxes seem to be selling out consistently for you at that price and those seats are least effected by results, so that helps. Conversely, your bleachers have been empty quite a bit. Lower tier and courtside are closer to consistently full.

Coming back in 7th place, you probably want to focus more on non-bleacher seats. The more expensive a seat is, the more the ticket price weighs in determining if it sells, and the less your fan survey does. So on the assumption that you're likely to have a middle-to-lower placing in the standings again, I'd probably focus on a mix of courtside and lower tier. The one thing I'll add is that I haven't run your luxury box pricing through the USA Offsite's attendance helper - if they're heavily underpriced as it is you may need to increase the price or build more of those as well, if not both.

Thanks for the breakdown.
Decided to do the group demonstration & there were no 1-star players & only 3 2-star players. 2 were 5-star, & 9 4-star.

So the unscouted estimates were pretty bad, to say the least!

There are 6 with a star rating of 5, one of which has 1 potential, yikes.

I would have really liked getting the 5-star 1 potential guy a few seasons ago. Could have maxed him out with team training / cross training over the length of his career!

BTW: Congrats on the win tonight. 1 down, 1 more to go.

Thanks, but I'll probably still find a way to lose. GS training really screwed me over too. Not to mention really went RS's way. (he had one of the luckiest GS trainings i've ever seen!) His PF with like 95 minutes even popped to proficient somehow...

I'm curious to see the results though. I remember someone being really insistent that the game engine didn't produce wildly variable results. (They were insanely confident, & sounded foolish quite honestly). There's no way a GS or HCA is worth a 25-30 point swing in & of itself, so...

Last edited by shikago at 3/2/2013 5:23:06 PM

Sigh... ANOTHER INJURY.

I have a level 6 doctor why????

That was my problem 2 seasons ago. Had a lvl 5 doctor, yet, suffered (a franchise record) 6-7 injuries! Lmao. I was so infuriated.

I started with court-side seats and luxury boxes, maxed them out (LB: 50, CS: 500). Those have a high sell out rate, winning or losing. If I were you, I'd start with your luxury box seats; then, once maxed out, start the construction of adding more court-side seats.

Hope this helped. Good luck.

i've only got 1 player making over $40k left.
he's got 3 $100k players plus 2 more $38k guys in proficient GS.
Not looking good.

i've only got 1 player making over $40k left.

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At least that 1 player is more than 6 times over $40K

and basically the same DMI as his PF that played 95 minutes last week. Which is a giant screw job.

If only the sale of his 1 month "long term" move at PG would end a few hours earlier! (as an aside, the "This is just ridiculous. These aren't even long term moves either..." statement from February 3 seems very apt in retrospect. )

and basically the same DMI as his PF that played 95 minutes last week. Which is a giant screw job.

If only the sale of his 1 month "long term" move at PG would end a few hours earlier! (as an aside, the "This is just ridiculous. These aren't even long term moves either..." statement from February 3 seems very apt in retrospect. )

lol One thing about you....at least you don't use sarcasm!! ;)