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285586.27 in reply to 285586.26
Date: 4/7/2017 10:56:06 PM
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Sweet. It's a wonder how I've been playing this game since season 14 and am even this league XO. Thanks for the help! Time to take a closer look at the forums.

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285586.28 in reply to 285586.27
Date: 4/10/2017 9:45:57 AM
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Yeah, enthusiasm and game shape are two commonly overlooked things. I didn't pay much attention to GS. If I have a guy coming back from injury with GS of 5 or lower, I like to give them run in that week's scrimmage, to help get it back for league play.

If you go TIE with enthusiasm, you team "banks" enthusiasm. So when you play a game on Normal or CT, their performance is enhanced. During the first half of the season, I tend to counter the importance of certain league games vs. Cup opponent strength in making enthusiasm decisions. It essentially resets during the All Star Game week.

From: Penumbra

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285586.29 in reply to 285586.28
Date: 4/10/2017 11:52:24 PM
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Most of my players I keep at strong or better game shape. They only drop below if their minutes get messed up. My coach sometimes refuses to pick from the depth chart contrary to my lineup settings. And I use Take It Easy for all of my games except rivalries or other important wins.
I won my last few games and my attendance jumped significantly, especially against Grand Reign, my rival. I am surprised I won my games against the top 2 teams in the Big 8 but now I get to face #1 on the other side.

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285586.30 in reply to 285586.29
Date: 4/11/2017 2:47:10 PM
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The struggle of when I was about to finally gain some momentum for home games but I'm going to have 2 losses right before coming home for an easy game. Sad week.

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285586.31 in reply to 285586.11
Date: 4/13/2017 9:47:03 PM
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Can anyone explain how I even won this game? The talent discrepancy looked massive going into this and I know they were going easy and got one of the predictions wrong. Still looked like it should have been an easy win for them.

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285586.32 in reply to 285586.31
Date: 4/13/2017 10:57:21 PM
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If you are talking about your scrimmage just look at his 3pt shots. He went 3-23 so he had a poor shot selection. You were out rebounded by 8 but he had +4 turnovers to your +4 steals. Then look at your field goals. He took 3 more shots but had a poor selection after missing 20 from 3 point range.
I wouldn't recommend anything but Take It Easy for scrimmages. Your effort helped you win the game but it will cost you in your next league games. Use TIE unless your are on a losing streak and need a morale boost or if you have a rivalry game, TV game, or a must win for playoff spot, playoff game, or relegation game. My enthusiasm right now is Motivated but will probably drop 1 or 2 before Saturday's game.
EDIT: I just realized that was a cup game. Your fans will really appreciate winning those games and your world rank gets a good boost. I don't blame you for pushing for a win. The furthest I made it in the cup was facing 3 bots in a row and then a weak team with a lower rank than me.

Last edited by Penumbra at 4/13/2017 11:02:00 PM

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285586.33 in reply to 285586.32
Date: 4/14/2017 12:48:01 AM
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Not going to lie I just wanted to see if it was possible for my team to win the game. Luckily I have this home game to relax too :D

From: BPI

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Date: 4/14/2017 9:31:41 AM
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Yep. Nice win. Your CT enthusiasm was one key difference, as were your game plan hits (+2) and his game plan miss...guessing and missing is worse than not having planned at all.

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285586.35 in reply to 285586.34
Date: 4/14/2017 9:34:53 AM
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My Cup run ended. I'm left wondering if I should have played Castaneda instead of Alvarado, but still a competitive game. Not going to lose sleep over it. But the happy byproduct is now I can concentrate on the wins and get those scrubs trained a little bit.

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285586.36 in reply to 285586.35
Date: 4/14/2017 9:40:31 AM
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Looked at the new staff feature (you can hire a player on your team as staff). For a World Renowned trainer, the purchase price is $3.5M and a starting salary of $50K. I'm guessing that the salary increases like a normal staff member, but they don't mention anything about what happens with salary...that's not that bad a deal. Don't worry though, I'm not going to blow my bankroll on that. I might start getting tempted when I get near the $18-20M range, because that will probably be when I start turning my current team over.

From: All2Fresh

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285586.37 in reply to 285586.36
Date: 4/14/2017 12:29:58 PM
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Also I was think what age i should stop training some of my players as I was thinking about drafting a power forward or center so I could build my inside game back up. It is what I used to do before but all of my bigs got old and so i sold them. I haven't drafted a player of high calibur like mccready and wanted to make sure I did it right :D

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