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Good luck mate. Will be the first season I keep an eye on the NT fixtures and looks promising.

Thanks guys. Especially the two EBBL guys for raising expectations lol.

We have of course never qualified before but I don't suppose there's any harm in whipping up a frenzy of expectation.

Certainly a finish like two seasons ago would be a failure.

Probably some surprises in the squad today. Frankly I was surprised by some of them. There are some in the squad with respectable game shape, which I've previously made clear I won't choose. In this case I've had to. But I do know that those players I've chosen are close to strong game shape as I record dmi each week and can compare against the base levels. I also feel I can trust those managers to improve GS as they did last season.
Also did not expect to be using both Hongs and Sharpling but as always they've forced their way into the squad. They're old but still have the talent.
Huge credit to Mikramus for letting me know in advance about his players' game shape. Mistakes are understandable, and I know from previous seasons its a one off.

Icelandic Volcano Fails To Disrupt English Flights
Bit of a strange one stats wise for us. Probably a week one thing. Iceland came out in a bit of a frenzy. I was a little worried through the early stages that they looked like getting on top. They scored at will at times, but the second quarter saw the inevitable drop off as they seemed to tire.

The second half followed a similar pattern. Good start by them, but with us looking stronger as the half wore on.

Esposto led scoring with 21pts, Sharpling had 20, 13 of which came in the first quarter when he kept us in the game. He also led assists with 8. Marshall made 8 assists too out of an impressive team total of 30. MacAusland managed 17 rebounds, I think the highest of any England game I've managed. For quite a while only MacAusland and Simpson had any rebounds, one the statistical oddities that puzzled me early.

Iceland crunched us; they were the only team in the group who did that. So beating them quite comfortably took a pretty good team performance imo. Very pleasing first game of the season.

Lithuania appeared to be struggling before half time, but in the end won their game quite easily. Estonia left it even later, only taking the lead in the final quarter against Georgia. Finland were just on top throughout their game.

Too early to say how its going but a good start. Plenty more to do.

Hey everyone, I am new to this game and I have stumbled across this thread. Read a few post's and it seems like England are going places. As I am starting out and have little idea of what to do, what is the best course of action for myself in order to help the national team's? I realise that it might take me time to e.g. save money to train players etc.But I am looking forward to helping all of you anyway I can and am able to. Including getting to know all of you.

First things first. Well done for finding anything on the forums. That and the fact that you haven't spent any money yet is a good start.

Reading this could help: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

This is an enormous help: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

The next thing after that would be to say if you need further help ask either on the England forum (this one) or the Help forum.

As for helping with the NT/u21s, normally the most important part of that involves the draft, which has unfortunately happened only a few weeks ago, or buying a trainee, usually a young one, and training him. I'd not necessarily recommend that as a good idea for a new team, but I do believe there's a lot of value in training players for your own team.

And welcome to the game.

Last edited by Gully Foyle at 10/29/2014 5:25:35 PM

Welcome to the game Thorus! Best of luck with your season and hopefully after reading the links Gully sent you can start to build a better knowledge of the game.
Anything you want help with, don't be afraid to ask!

Welcome to the game fella, feel free to ask questions and we'll do what we can to support. Best way to start and spend money early on is with your arena, in division 3 you will make a steady amount of money and have chance to expand. Balance your ticket prices to get your arena about 90% full to keep a good cash-flow.

When it comes to training first thing to do is improve your coaching staff to a superior (level 5) coach, then you focus on a couple of good 18 or 19 year olds from the draft and train them. No need to do that til the end of this season. The best way to train for the U21 is connect up with the U21 coach on the forums and get them to advise a training regimen.

In terms of how you play your players, try and get your players around 60 -70 minutes of game time per week. That will make their game shape strong or proficient which will make sure you stay competitive in division 3. Longer term the best strategy is to train up your players and buy in only what you need to fit around your trainees. It may take a few seasons, but the long term strategy is best.

:) Thank you Gullyfole, Js8 and Vecx for the friendly welcome and the useful support, really do appreciate it. Really looking forward to seeing what may be created in the future seasons to come.

I think after reading the threads and looking at the team I have inherited this season which is not good at all. I will focus on building up Arena and save some money. Combine this with training the possible one or two decent players that I have (compared with the rest of my team).. and wait for the draft and buy some players in to booster quality of squad at a later date.

Is there a player age when it is not worth training them after either because it takes longer with say age or because they cannot be trained after a certain age?

Looking at your teams arenas and some other EBBL players arenas the majority have gone for high bleachers than lower tier seats. You any of you think of changing your area seat's? This might be a very amateurish thing to ask but has anyone created a stadium with a higher lower tier e.g. 7k Bleachers and say 16k Lower tier if you get more income? And I take it once you build seats you cannot change them to Lower tier or Bleachers they stay as they are.

I think after reading the threads and looking at the team I have inherited this season which is not good at all. I will focus on building up Arena and save some money. Combine this with training the possible one or two decent players that I have (compared with the rest of my team).. and wait for the draft and buy some players in to booster quality of squad at a later date.

That's an excellent plan. Though I would add you could keep an eye on the transfer list for better trainees. I'd recommend no one too expensive at this stage though. Also don't spend too much on a trainer at this point.

Is there a player age when it is not worth training them after either because it takes longer with say age or because they cannot be trained after a certain age?

The simple answer is yes, there is an age where its not worth training a player, but it depends on the player. One of my current trainees is 26, but he's a bit of a special case. Its a combination of age, potential and the current skill levels of the player.
Training speed declines with age so given similar skills its always preferable to train a younger player.

Looking at your teams arenas and some other EBBL players arenas the majority have gone for high bleachers than lower tier seats. You any of you think of changing your area seat's? This might be a very amateurish thing to ask but has anyone created a stadium with a higher lower tier e.g. 7k Bleachers and say 16k Lower tier if you get more income? And I take it once you build seats you cannot change them to Lower tier or Bleachers they stay as they are.

Not amateurish at all. This subject has been one that's been debated a long time, and still there's people who disagree. My personal opinion is that 7k lower tier is an excellent aim. Though because of the cheapness of building bleachers its probably more profitable to build them early on.
Attendance goes down if results are bad, and this affects lower tier less than bleachers, which is another good reason for having lower tier.
And you're right, you can't remove seats. If most of the established teams who have a higher percentage of bleachers could remove them, I think they would.

Yeah look for a couple of trainees on the cheap like Allstar or better with decent to good starting skills for their age. Consider that from 18yo to 19yo you can expect at least 8-10 increase in skills (pops),

Buy a doctor with massage specialty (1-3 level as cheap as you can for his level, without overspending), buy a 3-4 level trainer (either specialty is fine but not essential as you're not training NT caliber prospects and maybe you don't have too many old players), buy a 1 level PR with either specialty (national appeal will give you a slight edge on road games and crowd involvement gives you an edge for home games). You can get a great package of guys for about 20-25k a week where the trainer will cost you 12-14k if he's level 4 (Advanced).

Don't buy a trainer and probably a doctor until you actually have that couple of interesting players to train.

I'd get advice on viable cheap players to train or maybe check the U21 requirements.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 10/30/2014 9:18:37 AM