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If hopelessly addicted is tanking why is he still in the NT & leading the league?

The season I tanked in the ABBL almost killed me with boredom and whilst it was my initial plan to tank at the start of this season, when I saw the intentions of the Mad Rangas and the Hippos, I belatedly changed my mind.

Wombats will knock me out of the cup on Thursday night and I didnt see much purpose in trying to win that game even if I could, as even if I had there would still be 7 ABBL teams left in the final 16.

As for leading the league, well thats only temporary I suspect that my team is destined to spend another season in this league before my 3 trainees will be good enough to help carry me through.

To win through this season would require me to suspend their training and I cant envisage that happening and even if I did the truth is Div 2 is probably better for my trainees next season as they would probably run into foul trouble against the better players in the ABBL, which would affect their training

The other reason that I wont promote this season is that ladder position will become extremely important and I reckon a few teams (possibly Vipers and the Linguists) just might rob me of the necessary wins by going out of their way to beat me

Despite there being many good teams in this league the three teams that stand out to me are; Hadders, Avalon Jets and your team (Yes you Windies).

All three of these teams have that magic mix of value for money players, class and depth, the same mix that allowed Dire to beat Bryce in last seasons ABBL relegation series despite Dire having the more expensive roster and a home court advantage.

Who ever dares and makes the purchases will most probably win (promote), but my gut feel is that Avalon Jets will because they have the most motivation as they know that Siggy Jolly will probably jump again in salary next season to the point where he will be hard to fit on a div 2 roster.

I could never write off Hadders as my gut feel is he must be loaded given the amount of seasons he has been competitive with relatively cheap rosters

Assuming Avalon Jets does go up, I will keep the same roster next season and have faith that the improvement in my trainees will be enough to allow me to be that little bit extra competitive next season.

Good luck to everyone from here on in



Last edited by Sid Vicious at 1/8/2013 11:13:51 AM

how on earth are you 8-4 with a negative PD ?

I wonder if there is an Achievement for that?

haha i guess its cos all my losses have been intentional tankages to ensure i keep my players in good shape and ready for cup action

come at me bro

keep your foreplay out of this forum thanks bainsy.

bahaha i came alright

that was a good game, i thought i was done for after that horrible first quarter.
I checked the economy update and didnt see any money come through on the manage team page so i was expecting a loss - was pleasantly surprised when i checked back and saw that I won! they must have fixed up that glitch.

I was surprised you didn't crunch though - was expecting you to!

got HAX up next lets see if we can make it through another round!

you bastard. i thought you would normal! i changed it 4 times and then to compound that i fucked up the lineup and played Garrie on Smeltz. I pretty much didnt everything i could to lose that game much to my dismay.

ps. Axis aint got shit

Ur still in the cup ohla, good work, win the next game and there could only be 3 abblers left

Last edited by Urmumma at 1/11/2013 6:44:35 AM

haha i wouldve played normal except you had home court advantage plus i was expecting you to do something tricky with garrie. I thought you meant to play him on smeltz and torch him from outside or something

oh well such is life your loss is my gain haha round 7 is a new record for the TAK franchise!

Haha nah he was supposed to be at PFand Pham at C to get training. But well yeh.... We saw how that turned out. Looks like I have to go one better next season. Good luck in the next few rounds

I have got rid of the virus off the computer (thanks Coach Regan), but I have subsequently failed at a few attempts at putting an emblem up.

Would anyone be kind enough to offer advise on how to put an avatar/team emblem up on Buzzerbeater?

In other news 2 rounds of inter conference games left to be played but at present;

Big 8 have a combined tally of 60 wins to the Great 8s 44 wins
Big 8 have 6 teams with positive point differences to the Great 8s 3 teams
Big 8 teams combined have a positive point difference of plus 577 v the Great 8s negative 577

From memory last seasons stats were similar but the Great 8 still went on to win the All Stars game