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Is it a waste though if you don't think you will need it for your upcoming games?

Avoiding relegation rounds is the big reason. Holding the 2 seed is more profitable all season long than a lower seed when you're not competitive to promote. Picking up a few wins might be worth 100k. If you can take down a 1 seed it might spin the division into a battle for position, causing a spending battle or more enthusiasm used later in the season. It's definitely under used before the break. 80% of the time it's not enough to matter.

It is because a team won't be able to max it out for the playoffs/relegation. If you look at the schedule, 4 of my last 6 games are on the road and there is a good chance I lose at least three of them, so it's really just wasting a ct at that point.

Last edited by Sterling Archer at 8/11/2024 10:40:52 AM

I think there is alot more flexibility than that in how a manager chooses to spend their enthusiasm, and I think that's part of what makes BuzzerBeater interesting. Have you ever used the coachParrot tool? It has an enthusiasm calculator which seems fairly accurate in my experience.

Here's my understanding about how enthusiasm works. You start the season at 5, and there is a natural decay, or boost towards 5. So if your enthusiasm is at 4, it will naturally increase towards 5. If your enthusiasm is 13, it will naturally decay towards 5. The farther away from 5 you are, the quicker it moves towards 5.

I do not know Sounders enthusiasm levels for that game, but for the sake of simplicity let's assume a team plays TIE ever league game and every cup game and that they get eliminated after their 5th cup game. Plugging those numbers into the enthusiasm calculator, they would have been sitting at 8.9 enthusaism for Saturday's game (game 16). With this approach here would be their enthusiasm levels for the rest of the season up till the first round of the playoffs.

game 17 - 9.4
game 18 - 9.2
game 19 - 9.6
game 20 - 9.3
game 21 - 9.7
game 22 - 9.3
1st round playoffs - 9.7

Now if you run the same situation but instead do a CT on Saturday (so every other game is a TIE) then you get
game 17 - 4.5
game 18 - 5.8
game 19 - 7.1
game 20 - 7.9
game 21 - 8.7
game 22 - 8.8
1st round playoffs - 9.4

Game 17 and 18 the team is definitely at a severe disadvantage and game 19 a minor one, but for the enthusiasm level at the playoffs, a CT on Saturday would make only a very minor difference in the playoffs.

The reason in my mind to spend the enthusiasm is to try to earn HCA for the playoffs. Home court is very valuable and for two evenly match teams, it can be hard to overcome. Now obviously you can go over board and spend too much enthusiasm, but to me it's a balance.

Your approach is definitely working for you so I am not knocking it, I just think it's selling the enthusiasm system short if you say the only way to be successful is to TIE every game.

Have I mentioned how much I hate the Slashing Dragons? Two years in a row. I got outcoached and outclassed.

I'm just glad I managed to hold on. I feel like our games are all the same, I get an early lead, hold it through 3, your team goes on a run and then I lose. It's crazy that this is my first time beating you in the regular season even though our games always seem close.

I think your guys must trash talk my guys when they're at the line. My FT percentage has been abysmal against you during the two losses.

We hand out sterling silver rattles to our fans to shake while your team is at the free throw line. Management complained about the cost, but whatever works ;)

Full disclosure, I have never watched an episode of Archer, so you will have to blame the marketing department.

And tonight I get to lose to the Cyborgs on the road