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Hopefully I don't find some way to screw things up.

I'll be happy to not answer any questions you may have, thereby helping you immensely.

Yeah, I couldn't see myself winning it all this season, and if I didn't, would have gone bankrupt and would have had to sell off probably the same people anyway. Now, I get a training program, which is pretty new to me. Hopefully I can not demote next season and my training program sets me up for the following season. I bought that 21 yo 6'8" PF intending to train him as a guard for a bit. You can guess my goal is to make a 'well-rounded' SF. He won't be a shut-down-whomever-you match up against him and score at will dude, but if he allows me to play any defense and any offense, no matter what type of team I play, then that will be cool.

I almost completely tanked to fall into 5th, but I thought I had to give myself a shot in the playoffs. I almost pulled it out, leading going into the 4th, but the final score looked ugly because I missed 3's and he made FTs in the last minute. If I tanked, I would have saved 250k and been happier today.

No matter what happens in the playoffs, next season should have a much different feel with a few teams rebuilding.

Should be fun.

I feel as if some teams are capable of making a leap next season. Even without the rebuilding, it's possible the landscape could change considerably.

Training and a plan for the future are a must. Even had you managed to promote, with no real internal growth going on, it would be incredibly tough to stay up there.

That's kind of why I hinted at no 'real' training program. I was training my older bigs in sf/pf driving and JS. It either really sucks for mid-late twenty yo or they were so close to the skill cap, that side skills wouldn't increase either. So I basically wasted this season's of training getting almost no skill pops. I'm go to go in the completely opposite direction and do one position training with the pg and jr option....of course, my dudes are still well past there teenage glory days.... Hopefully this works out or I might have to start over and drop down.

Nothing wrong with training guys in their mid 20's. That's like all I do. Imo, it's mandatory if you want to field a competitive team.

But training guards huh? Is the Great 8 going to ditch it's traditional Inside ways?

Last edited by AZ at 10/19/2011 5:42:55 PM

Copycats. :p

Speaking of training...has anyone in this league ever gotten one of these new Cross Training pops yet? It's been a big bust for my guys so far.

Speaking of training...has anyone in this league ever gotten one of these new Cross Training pops yet? It's been a big bust for my guys so far.

I got one on a draftee while training stamina the week cross-training was released. I've yet to have one on a normal trainee.

We think alike, from wanting the #5 seed down to the training... I'm re-focusing a little bit, just got 10 years younger at SG and he'll complement my odd "big men" in the long run. I don't expect to improve a lot next season in terms of record, but the future will be exciting, so I guess it's a semi-"rebuild"...

regarding x-training I had a couple pops that I guess qualify, I'm guessing subs are raising higher than ever before though, the salary update will be very interesting. My forward Thornton has improved a great deal in performance, more so than he has in visible build. I suspect that his subs have gone up by a lot and I'm not seeing it.

Dragons vs. Machines

This is a matchup of the two best teams in the Big 8 by quite a bit and throughout the season this matchup seemed inevitable. Interestingly enough the road team has won both games so far in this season's series, but I'm not so sure that will necessary hold true this time around. The Dragons are coming off of a PON while the Machines are coming off of a PCT, so that will help neutralize the effect of HCA. Ultimately, I think this game will be a coin toss that either one can win. It very well could come down to fouls or untimely injuries to decide who wins this game. I will give the ultimate edge to the Machince given the Dragons fouling tendencies as well as untimely injury tendency (most notably last season in playoffs vs. Wiggles).

Machines + 8

Bullish vs. Riverdogs

This is a rematch of last season's QF matchup in which Bullish won on the road with less effort. What was quite a surpising results at the time has become more understandable as Bullish as continued with their success into this season. Bullish definitely will be capable to win this game. This is a classic matchup of one team that can do multiple things well vs. another team that can do one thing really really well. The home team as won both matchups of these teams this season, but again, I wouldn't be too surprised if Bullish was able to buck that trend, especially given last season's playoff results. In the end though, I think that the Riverdogs guards will end up beating Bullish bigs in another close and exciting game.

Riverdogs + 6