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268510.43 in reply to 268510.42
Date: 2/28/2017 12:05:33 PM
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Congrats, I'm impressed because your team is salarywise not that much better than mine, at least at the top. It's probably deeper though.
However, I'm still kinda stuck in DIV.
My trainees are mostly done and I drafted horribly lately and since I'm not planning to sell my top players I will draft late again. My only hope is to promote to get better draft picks without performing poorly on purpose.


I was relegated back to DIV, and went undefeated again (same as last time in DIV). Hopefully, I'll do better in DIII next season. I lasted two seasons in DIII in my other stint there.

It's getting tricky figuring out how to train everyone, and in about five seasons, my bigs will be getting old, so they'll need replacements. Obviously, that means I need to focus on training bigs in a couple seasons.

Another thing that is interesting is that my team now consists of all players that have had a fair amount of training attention, but I'm going to have to let some of my veterans go to make room for the young guys, as there simply aren't enough minutes to go around. Definitely a fun challenge.

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268510.45 in reply to 268510.44
Date: 6/13/2017 1:45:17 PM
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Good luck with your project


Thanks.
So, in my first season back in DIII, I made the finals!

However, I got whooped in game 1.

Hopefully my guys will give a stronger showing in game 2.

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268510.46 in reply to 268510.45
Date: 6/14/2017 6:43:27 AM
TSV Empor Göhren
III.6
Overall Posts Rated:
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Second Team:
Olympique Lagoza
Wow, making the finals in D III with your roster is impressive. I didn't check the other teams of your conference, but now I have some hope to play a good role in D III next season.
Just won finals game 1 on the road against a 24-0 team (they miss their second best player due to injury) yesterday ...

It's just another fan in the peanut gallery with an opinion, which is meaningless. (Gregg Popovich on LaVar Ball)
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268510.47 in reply to 268510.46
Date: 6/14/2017 4:08:17 PM
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Honestly, I was surprised, too.
My team salary is near the bottom of my league, but I think the balanced nature of my players makes my team a challenge for many of the top heavy teams. Not all of them, obviously, as can be seen by game one of the Finals. Dang it.

Nice win in your game 1!

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268510.48 in reply to 268510.47
Date: 6/18/2017 6:55:26 AM
TSV Empor Göhren
III.6
Overall Posts Rated:
38603860
Second Team:
Olympique Lagoza
I've got the sweep by another blowout-win last night. I knew I would have a chance to win it all, even though he was unbeaten all season long. It's a bummer that he lost his second best player. So, it was almost too easy ...

I guess, you are not too disappointed by the loss. The difference between the two teams was just too big to pull off another upset, but especially considering the conditions, it was still an incredible performance.
Congrats and maybe we will meet next season in III.16 ;)

It's just another fan in the peanut gallery with an opinion, which is meaningless. (Gregg Popovich on LaVar Ball)
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268510.49 in reply to 268510.48
Date: 6/18/2017 2:23:45 PM
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Wow. You've got some awesome players on your team!
I should have done that, but I kept wanting to improve my weak areas along the way, and so instead I ended up with a very balanced and incredibly deep team that is better than average at defense, but kind of terrible on offense.
I'm excited to see how much I can improve my team this season through training.

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268510.50 in reply to 268510.49
Date: 6/26/2017 2:50:37 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
293293
Thanks for the inspiration, guys! I finally decided to give the homegrown Utopia team a shot. I only wish I had thought to do this sooner... I sold my best homegrown player when he became too expensive. Should have sold everyone else and kept him! Selling everyone else now, but it won't leave me with much to work with beyond a couple of young guys with potential. We'll see what I can make out of them.

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268510.51 in reply to 268510.50
Date: 1/12/2018 10:21:24 AM
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Well, it's official - as soon as my last non-homegrown player sells this week (or I have to fire him), I will be 100% homegrown. And 99.5% identical looking players. (If only I had thought of doing that when I started.... now I'm stuck with one good player with a different face.) The trick now will be getting my team out of the DIV cellar. Finishing in last place in DIV has been handy for getting good draft picks, but very bad for morale.

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268510.53 in reply to 268510.52
Date: 1/17/2018 9:56:09 AM
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Thanks. Clearly I have too much free time.

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