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I'd try to be one of the 3 weakest teams.. and to have a lowest salary. I would do a lot of playing with enthusiasm to defeat teams that are possible to defeat (like 2 or 3 teams weakest in the conference). Then when the 3/4 season is passed and youll have more money buy a new players, get stronger and try to finish 6 and win relegation games.. In the next season do the same thing to save money or aim for the championship..

Last edited by Phantum at 7/25/2011 2:09:52 PM

Thanks, I guess I'll have to tough it out.

I require no effort to have the lowest salary in my league. :P My total salary is around $60,000 less than the next lowest.

If you think you are going to get regulated, then you are going to get regulated. Players always think their teams are better, and when you think yours is worse then you have a worse team. I would focus on being able to promote back into II and being able to stay there.

just train your players and save money..so that at the end of the season you can buy a good player that can compete on higher division...

Ok, thanks everyone. Hopefully next season will be better for me. :)

Re work your team so you a top contender when you relegate after this season. SO you bounce right back to D.2

Thanks too. I think I'll test my chances in a relegation match after I discovered that an opponent of mine is turning into a bot team. Hopefully, I will not be relegated this season. But if I fail, hopefully I may bounce back to D.2 as you said. :)

Thats the Spirit!

Watch what other teams are doing. Odds are, some will lose a few games that you don't expect and might open a door for you. The season won't go exactly like you think it will. Pick your spots, try to steal a win here or there when you can. Look at who's your competition for the 8 spot. If you can somehow beat them heads up, then you've got a step in the right direction. Be looking at who's 6 and 7 on the other side. Especially when later in the year you are thinking about buying a player. Not finishing last, and then beating the team from the other side in the relegation game is all you need. You can look plenty ugly on the other nites and still stay up.

Or, if it does seem totally hopeless, you can just train young guys all year long and save money. You already know you can win enough at the lower level to advance, and you can be a lot better the next time around. On that path, you are mainly looking a couple years in the future for what you need to stay up the second time around. Saving money for two years and training up young guys can make that look pretty good I'd imagine.

My HT soccer team is facing pretty much that same spot. But, I'm finding it fun to try to plot my way into making it work for me in the long run anyways. ;) My BB team somehow did stay up last year (finished 6th and won relegation series), so its now becoming a problem of how to build a good team at this next level. Although, staying up isn't completely certain this year. Just more likely than it was last year.

My HT soccer team is facing pretty much that same spot. But, I'm finding it fun to try to plot my way into making it work for me in the long run anyways. ;) My BB team somehow did stay up last year (finished 6th and won relegation series), so its now becoming a problem of how to build a good team at this next level. Although, staying up isn't completely certain this year. Just more likely than it was last year.

That's one of the nice things with BB as compared to HT -- the difference between the lowest two levels is far less onerous. In HT, teams can go from stomping a VI series to getting obliterated in a V and bounce back and forth for RL years at this point, but it's a lot less difficult to survive in IV in BB USA (Whether I can pull that off, myself, is another story, but it would be impossible to do in HT).