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97948.5 in reply to 97948.3
Date: 6/20/2009 3:40:52 AM
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Date: 6/20/2009 10:19:48 AM
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Looking at the NBBA I notice that 15 of the 16 teams gained there current ownership during the first three seasons (16th Heathens in season 4). I wonder how much this has to do with longevity of the teams rather then actual skill. I am little worried for the long run of the game. Will it become to difficult for new players to gain a foothold in the upper leagues with stalwart teams who have been training, selling, and buying players for years? Will top leagues be filled with legendary players worth 200K that 99% of teams could never dream of affording? The system as it is overwhelming favors owners who have been around for multiple seasons, while it isn't impossible for a team to move up or down a couple of divisions. I seriously doubt a new owner starting season 9 or later will be able to ever compete at a top league level?


one thing what caused that issue, that you could get very much money in the beginning because you got nearly the full first league income but you pay the salary of a team who playing 2 seasons. With taxing they start to regulating it, but you could build your team fast then now which give this team a competive advantage.

Today the income gets closer to the spending from season to season, which makes it possible to catch up - but also the new economic system would take effect with undefined direction.

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97948.8 in reply to 97948.7
Date: 6/22/2009 12:04:22 PM
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"BB is designed as a long-run game, and it has neither the intention nor the means to provide instant gratification."

My main concern is how a season 10 new owner can actually ever catch up to a season one or season two owner? I am not talking one or even two seasons I am talking five or six seasons down the road. Thanks to the pryramid system there will always be some movement from league to league. But the BB system works kind of like continous race with new teams entering every day, but those who started early will nearly always be ahead.

I am not trying to whine here, rather address a larger long-term philosophical issue of the game. I am just hoping there is some background discussions going on to make sure there isn't too much distance from the veterans and newbies that the newbies have little to no chance of ever catching up.

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97948.10 in reply to 97948.9
Date: 6/22/2009 12:13:35 PM
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Agreed. We are already seeing players so expensive that no team could afford more than one or two of them and still field a decent roster. I think quite a few teams are nearly as good as they are ever going to get. Especially since there is a limit to how many people you can get into an arena to watch games.

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97948.11 in reply to 97948.4
Date: 6/22/2009 12:43:18 PM
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Good post. Thank you.

As I pointed out I think in a previous post. I would love to see the draft develop into more of one of those sub-challenges to a greater degree.

I am a season 6 owner where most other active teams in my starting range are in div. 3 or div. 4. So the top for me is very far off but not unreachable. But a season 10 starter will have to be incredibly good to even reach div.3 in three or four seasons. Make that five or six seasons for a season 15 starter.

I like your Lakers analogy, except while that neighborhood team has improved in free throws and added the best player from the local gym. The Lakers have added Chris Paul and Lebron James!

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97948.12 in reply to 97948.5
Date: 6/22/2009 12:43:51 PM
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Wow, thanks.

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97948.13 in reply to 97948.9
Date: 6/22/2009 12:49:05 PM
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Alright.

I guess being in the middle it is hard for me to see what is happening at the very top, but knowledgeable enough about the bottom, too wonder what they are thinking.

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97948.14 in reply to 97948.10
Date: 6/22/2009 12:51:32 PM
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Just wondering what the arena crowd top-off seem to be?

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