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This is the point that GM-K doesn't understand. TPE can get skewed as in your example, or have nothing at all, even when there have been previous transactions.

The point you don't understand is that TPE is designed not to be surgically precise, but to be simple and ready to use, otherwise it loses its purpose.

Last edited by GM-kozlodoev at 8/16/2009 6:46:55 PM

I have to disagree, because the price free agents sell for are the real market value prices. Many teams with a lot of money would bid but they wouldn't overbid so those players most often were signed for the amount of money they are really worth...

I agree with other responses. The major problem with FA is that they are very often on the market when the transfer market is dead. They are overrepresented during a part of the season when few clubs are investing in expensive players, e.g. 3-4 weeks into the season, and during times of the day when very few are logged in, deadlines at 8 GMT is not too unlikely.

Managers with a player of similar strength as these FA usually consciously or unconsciously transfer list their players to not be sold when the market is low and for this reason it is mainly FA that daytraders can make bargains with. I would not sell a $25k salary guy 8 GMT as I know that I risk losing a lot of money due to the low activity in the transfer market.

And it is very difficult to buy players when you are not logged in. You do not really want to make a bid of $1.5 millions for a player that might only be worth $1M. If you are bidding at deadline you can much easier buy the player for something close to market value. Even if you consider market value to be $1M you do not want to make such bid on a player currently for $500000 so then you have problem with not logged in again. This means that managers able to log in at any time during the day can profit from this.

One way of solving this problem is to make sure that the FAs always are out on the market when many users are logged in. Of course it would punish people logged in when only few users online but they aer already punished today as most deadlines will always be at times with more users online.

The major problem with daytrading usually are that these players are bought and then transferlisted for a value even higher than their market value but if someone wants the player and has the money they might still buy the player. But it seems like the daytrading problem is not as big in BB as in e.g. hattrick, but at least I do believe that the limitation of FA is very good for BB. And then only to avoid giving too big benefits for people online 24 hours a day. The major successes should be from managing the team and not daytrading

no offense but your wrong many free agents were bought low and then sold for a much higher price.

example

people online 368 buy free agent for 250k (low price not much competition on bidding)
then resell when
people online 3425 sell free agent for 500k (very good chance of sale)

i have seen countless examples of managers doing this.

try reading the now closed day trading post in bb global

Selling a player a day after one day mean a great amount of tax over hims so there could be two situation
1)The team which buy the player make agreat great great affair on this deal and he then resell then to his real market value,so earning a lot of money
2)Someone will overpay the player when the first team ressell him at double value,so the problem is easy to resolve,it is a typical TPA situation,or a cheater situation
So on,there aren't the free agents the problem about day trading.This is not an argument to say that free agent aren't good from the game(with specific rules,as i listed in my previous posts)

Last edited by Steve Karenn at 8/17/2009 1:07:21 PM

You have the same problem if the player is kept. You will be able to buy a player for much under market value and have a big advantage from it so I don't think that situation is something to prefer.

I stopped replying because I think both the people for Free Agents (including me) and those against them have a good point. And I don't wanna get into polemics. For my last post on this topic I wanted to say that I think people have more issues against day traders that Free Agents..
Free Agents helped me get to second league and without day traders they could help the community...
but then again, it's just my experience.. and I won't bother you anymore good luck in the playoffs

I think people have more issues against day traders that Free Agents..
Free Agents helped me get to second league and without day traders they could help the community...

Kivan understand perfectly my thought,we sustain that FA allows more users to spend theri money on the market and so on,in the long run,there will be an advantage for all the community,at certain conditions(no FA too week in some important skill for the role,great control about day traders,ecc...)
Others sustain that in this way training lose importance.This is good argument for them,we have to evaluete if is stronger the previous or this argument

I managed to get to estonian II league, without buying any FA-s. FA will benefit teams only in the high divisions. Even if you save enough money for a decent FA in the lower leagues, buying him will imbalance you're team -> will create salary and income problems.
I think we will be fine without those excess FA-s popping up every week. Creating free agents randomly, from bot teams at the start of every season, also makes no difference. Because the market is flooded with drafted players anyway.