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Why don't we set up a new group of players who will be financial counselors and analysts? They will look at each team's finances and transactions and make decisions on whether or not that team is allowed to tank or to buy or sell players. They could also obligate teams to buy or sell a certain fraction of their monthly income in players. If the amount is not met exactly a penalty could be assessed. Not a financial penalty but a number of technical fouls could be assessed in each away league game for two weeks. Plus, for teams who did manage to spend exactly the right fraction of their monthly incomes a special draft pick could be assigned where they would draft against the other managers who were financially perfect. The players would be from a new country, perhaps Suriname, making those players highly likely to play on the NT, thus increasing their TV money,which could be calculated on a twice daily basis and averaged on a fortnightly basis?

I find it kinda funny that the one person beeing most "aggressive" against the concept of tanking is the person who tries to make BB an NBA simulation game. Tanking is the VERY concept of NBA, a league, where you had to invent a lottery, to stop teams from ridicolously trying to lose more than any other. The concepts against tanking therefore should be ...

(1) Add a lottery. Worst record = best pick obviously doesn´t work. Else - skip the draft system and make it a talent academy based youth concept.
(2) Make playoffs more interesting (both in terms of promotion as in terms of finances).
(3) Make demotion for the worst teams more painful than for those "fighting". *
(4) Make sure, teams have a roster (e.g. penatlies for forfeiting games, higher salary floor (EASY to calculate)).
(5) Probably change the league system.

* Still you have to ensure that teams "promoting too early" and beeing in a league that is plainly too strong don´t get crippled. Tricky task.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 1/14/2012 4:36:43 AM

There should be a premium for 4th place to give incentive not to tank

you get a boost in attendance the next season, which should be higher then the one week salary depending on the words of the BB's.

But the action of at least 1 BB, BB-Charles (22793), seems like that may not be the case. I understand he does things unconventionally, but it seems like he's intentionally tanking into 5th place this season http://www.buzzerbeater.com/league/2/overview.aspx (since the current 5th and 6th placed teams are facing each other)

My mistake then, didn't check his Last Seen date. I'm surprised he won his last game then, and would be unfortunate if he inadvertently has a WO in his next game.

If Charles is not around to witness and endure the different and perpetual problems encountered on the site for litterally years, I am not confident I will see improvements in the future.

Last edited by Manouche at 1/21/2012 3:24:46 PM

It only strenghten my thoughts.