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That above posted, I'd like to say you seem to be a very smart dude and your contributions and willingness to share your impressions have been welcome.

Your strategy is valid but for many reasons - which I personally agree - it has been discouraged more and more. The more you trade the more you pay in taxes and the more profit you must make in order to break even with every transaction. However, if you buy and sell a couple of times for season you pay only 3% which is totally manageable.

That said, I'd insist for you to give a chance to the game and play it in the long term. Give a chance to your players to grow, you'll see, in a few seasons you will be talking to them as if they were old friends. You get really attached to them. You'll see, it's much more than OCD, it's pure crazyness

I think this thread is a very good example of what is actually going wrong (with transfers) in BB.

The BB transfer list works like a stock exchange. However, liquidity of the market is much too low. In my opinion, the main reason is the amount of tax managers have to pay. It's simply too expensive to exchange players frequently. That's why manager rather keep them than sell.
High liquidity automatically leads to fair prices. Low liquidity does not. That's why we see very different prices within short amounts of time.

Also, I think day trading should not be a disencouraged way to approach this game as it is right now. After all, the idea of a game is to find ways to master it. If there's only (roughly) one effective approach it will be boring. In BB it's mostly a matter of focus and patience.

The balance between different strategies is key. Currently, the trading approach is at a disadvantage.

It's simply too expensive to exchange players frequently. That's why manager rather keep them than sell.

It's expensive exactly because BB is not a game designed to be a game about buying and selling.

It's not expensive at all if you buy and sell a couple of players per season.

Buying and selling are just one part of BB.

There are many other important parts of the game.

The day a manager could be successfull only by buying and selling, that day would be the day BB went totally ruined.

Last edited by LA-Bernspin at 1/5/2017 7:14:31 AM

The day a manager could be successfull only by buying and selling, that day would be the day BB went totally ruined.

I disagree.
It's not that long ago that managers could sell and buy rather freely. It didn't seem to me that the game suffered from it. At any point in time I felt able to trader players in a way to leave my team in a better shape than before, e.g. higher quality and/or lower salaries. Whatever was necessary at the time. I didn't even look for profits.

Today, I have to think hard about whether or not I sell a player in order to be able to buy a slightly better player afterwards. The amount of players offered in certain quality regions is simply not that high and prices are very volatile. It could very likely leave me with a non-competitive team if I don't find a replacement soon.

It's expensive exactly because BB is not a game designed to be a game about buying and selling.

It's a game about managing a basketball team which implies managing a roster of basketball players through player development and/or purchase. I don't see how making profits of the 2nd is worse than making profits of the first aspect.