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Question for the candidates: what will you do to attract more people's interest in the NT and in developing those players?

Answer is, you don't.

Every election this question gets asked. The typical answer is you try to reach out to managers and bring them to the discord where people can share ideas and training plans.

This is not the way BB works. It's a nice idea of course but many NT coaches have tried it before with little success.

The reality is that there is less interest in NT teams than ever seen before and the little interest we have is declining.

How do we fix it? There isn't an answer for that with a harshly declining user base. What we can do is utilize the tools we have to the best of our ability. Either that or give away supporter package for managers that train NT caliber players.

How do we increase interest in the NT, talk about it more in the forums, literally go into the season threads and leave a link for whichever discord you like, so players can interact with others not just for game based discussion but in general as well.

In terms of trying to increase the user base, when is the last time you talked to someone about joining the game? Word of mouth is still our best advertising.

Dross, why are you running? What an absolute legend.

The reason no one cares is simple. Very few teams have NT caliber players. And most managers only care about their teams. This means that the only people who really care about the NT are those managing it and those who have players on it. So you are probably talking about 25-30 players. Not much will change that.

One way to get more players involved would be to include NT results in the news feed. It's more likely someone will reda it there. But I still think most players won't care.

I voted for Lambini because I like him. He was in one of my old D3 groups. He was entertaining. I have no expect6ation that he would make a good coach. He'll probably make a lousy one. But at least it will put a lot of nonsense to rest. And everyone enjoys watching a a good train wreck.

However - he is way off base with some of the accusations he threw out there. The number of people who get involved in the NT is small for the reasons I gave above. It will likely always be that way. And a some point, a few people will have to make decisions on how to play things. You can have 3-5 people on a management team. 10 won't work. So it ends up being a small circle because that's what works. All the "cabal" stuff is just projecting your fears on someone else.

But if you do get elected, it's pretty likely you won't get their help. And that would be bad.

Just a quick thought on this subject.... It is quite possible that the staff are not reaching out to managers that might have a future NT Player
I know this to be a fact as I have a player with MVP Potential and not one time did any NT or U21 staff inquire about him. His training is coming along very nicely and in 3-4 seasons he will be a matchup nightmare at the SF Position. This isn’t the first time I had a player that maybe could have made the team but this player is the best one I ever had that has the best shot at making the NT TEAM... that being said I probably could have also made the staff aware of this player as well but it would have be nice to know that the staff might have made the attempt to reach out to me to find out what training plans I have for this player . I have a player on my Utopian team that I am training and their NT Manager has reached out to me on training plans and follows up on his improvement we discuss future training and the needs of the team for the SF Position ... for me it really makes a difference and makes you feel involved to hopefully have a player on the NT TEAM....

Thanks for speaking up, nice to have someone independently state this. Actually I want to see managers become more involved in training across the board no matter if the player is nt potential or not.

There are ads that we have set to show up on every player page which directs how to contact the U21 and NT if you haven’t been contacted. I can’t speak for the U21 on contacting you, but from a NT side your player had less than a 1% chance at spawn due to his potential. With the training buffs, the age of MVPs on the NT is dying and you might only see one every couple seasons if they have a build that is necessary.

As for your player now, I looked and he has no chance to make the NT. He can still be a decent piece for your club team for sure since he is extremely balanced, but he will at no point be close to good enough for the highest level of competition.

This isn’t a knock on you or your training, or as Lambini would like to believe a knock on the NT for not talking with you. It’s a simple matter of spending NT time/resources on the players that have an actual shot at making the team.

Last edited by khenry at 3/29/2021 8:01:25 AM

Which is exactly what we do at the Discord so...

And if you’re taking that as your proof of the NT not talking with “potential NT players”, well you go ahead and feel free to fill the NT with Superstar and MVP players when you get the job. All this did was reiterate to me that we’ve been talking to the managers who have players with the best chance to make the team.

Last edited by khenry at 3/29/2021 8:10:24 AM

As I mentioned in my post, there was an opportunity for me to contact the staff, it just would have been nice to maybe have the staff contact you on a possible potential player for the NT TEAM, now I understand a little bit better that 1- you don’t have the staff and 2- you don’t waste your time on anything less than HOF due to the level of competition.... maybe at some point I will get a player that meets the NT requirements...