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As you said, those outside monsters people cant build, cos of high salary and etc. Just one meta on BB last 20+ seasons, time to make some changes for sure.

I would just love to see 2-3 zone over power, it would change lot of things.

True, agreed. But my tip for every new user, build a strong LI team from the beginning if you want stop all other teams

Ofc he can hit the GDP or similar things, but its a tip for future, so people should know how this game should be played if you want success. That's all I'm trying to say.

If you never make it to WR 250, for example, you can be just as successful with non-LI teams as with an LI focus; the level of success to that point is just based on your skill as a manager. And of course, the sad truth is that there's a top 250, and then roughly 19750 who make a top 250 possible. ;)

The reasons why LI dominates the high levels don't really factor into things until you reach those high levels - when the cascading cost of OD + JS + JR together finally starts to really add up. I just don't see any point in trying to get people in IV to throw their hands up in the air about an imbalance that honestly won't affect 95% or more of them.

Since I spend enough of my time at low levels of play to know, I'll say that I agree with Hrudey. In lower divisions Run and Gun and Base Offense are just as effective as look inside; the key to beating most teams in lower divisions is through what I call style-matchup defense. It's where you choose a style of defense based on the team ratings in outside scoring, inside scoring, and rebounding you expect your opponent to have. You want to make sure your defense is strongest in whichever area they're strongest, while still strong enough in the other areas to not give up a big advantage. (For example, if a team has strong outside scoring and mediocre inside scoring it might be a good time to break out the 3-2 zone, or even the 1-3-1 if their rebounding is really low. However, if their inside scoring and rebounding are high, 2-3 is the way to go.)

Firs, how can you be successful if you never get to the top? You can be successful just in your eyes when your biggest trophy is one from the 3rd league.

If you never make it to WR 250, you're doing something wrong. Or you play just for fun and to waste your free time. It's OK. Skill manager? Where, in III or IV league, with bot teams or half active teams playing always the same?

The reason LI dominate the game is just its over power and there is not a normal defense to stop it cos 2-3 zone doesn't work. + outside beasts are too expensive to train.

You don't see the point? I see the point, learn people from the beginning how this game works, don't give them fake tips so they make something wrong at the start. Build an inside team to get success, it's the easiest way, if you want try something other, experiment, go ahead, it's cool, but I don't "teach" someone wrong.

Anyway, no one need to give them tips, they can just go and see the B3 matches and see how champions from whole world play, simple as that.

If you never make it to WR 250, you're doing something wrong. Or you play just for fun and to waste your free time. It's OK. Skill manager? Where, in III or IV league, with bot teams or half active teams playing always the same?

All this success you talk about for so long...I mean I like you and all but its BS. Your teams do well because they aren't facing real competition, not because LI isn't overpowered at your level.

You don't need LI in DIII because you don't need to be any good in DIII. If you were any good...you wouldn't be in DIII anymore.

If you are any good below WR 250...you'll get up to WR 250...your team should steadily climb the ranks over time.

(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/30851/schedule.aspx?seas...)

I topped out at WR 110, though I really only claim a max of 127 because that's what I was at before my last two competitive games with my active roster. I was #5 in the USA when I got run out of the Cup in the final four. I had a PL win over the WR #7 (though he ran inside isolation rather than LI that game). And the season before, I was 22-0 in USA II.4, and missed on promotion when my PF at SF picked up two technicals late in the third and I ended up losing by two points.

So excuse me for being accurate, but I think 22-0 in the second best league in the USA while WR 250 and better with an outside offense literally qualifies me to say exactly what I said. I don't claim to speak for B3 level competition, but likewise the two of you have literally no room to dismiss my opinions for never reaching WR 250 when, you know, I kind of blew by that.