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From: atabakin

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Date: 3/30/2010 4:58:02 PM
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Well, I know that my team salary isn't going to decrease, so my players are just going to have to live up to the expectations that their salaries bring...

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Date: 3/30/2010 6:23:25 PM
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Nicely done Plotts. This is a little eye-opening to me, I have the third highest payroll yet there is no way I would consider myself the third best team. So now I'm wondering if my roster is constructed correctly or if I need to cut some players. My three highest paid players I drafted myself, so there's a bit of a soft spot for them, but since they're all PF/C I don't have enough minutes to go around for them.

I am about to shed almost 15k from my wage bill in less than an hour, so that'll drop me to 5th overall. Though all of these teams are so close we may as well be equal.

Nashville, how the heck did you stay afloat in Div III with those wages?

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138427.7 in reply to 138427.6
Date: 3/30/2010 6:33:39 PM
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Nashville, how the heck did you stay afloat in Div III with those wages?


It wasn't easy at the end; I was literally breaking even at the end of the season, within a couple thousand dollars! Of course, my payroll was $100K less, too, with $80K of that difference coming from my three guard trainees.

I'll probably look to add a mediocre guard trainee to turn around after a month or so of training, but that won't add too much to the payroll. I'm most interested to see my gate receipts for tonight, coming off a loss but against a top team. There's a good chance I could be at or near the same break-even point I was most of last season in DIII! Hoping for a nice cup run to help me out with that, though.

From: Plotts
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Date: 3/30/2010 7:01:53 PM
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Yeah, I plan on doing a salary update before the ASB and right before the playoffs. We'll see what changes.

We had to pick a team name for bar bowling and I thought about using Hoofhearted Icemelted, because it's just that damn funny, but I went with a combination of two awesome singers in their day, Tina Turner and Roger Daltrey.

So we are called "Tina Daltrey".......

get it?

From: Hokied

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Date: 3/30/2010 7:59:44 PM
Deronimo
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I like how talkative our new guys are.

My take is that I absolutely have the best deal on my team. I get more out of my players per cost than teams that specialize in big me. Theoretically I can make more money off it and I think we all agree the key to this game is make more money than your opponent. Since I'm generally 2nd or 3rd in the division though you can make your own decision on where or not it works or just keeps you in the hunt. Oh and with my C and main source of ID/RB out, but you get what I'm saying. Effing Joe Kessler...

From: dray

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Date: 3/30/2010 9:37:27 PM
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Well I don't know what I am going to do but will have to do something.

But even selling a big man would result in similar salary so who knows.

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Date: 3/30/2010 10:06:42 PM
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I like this.
It made me take a closer look at my team.

As i sit, I barely can afford 280k team salary. And i have one of the lowest paid team salaries in the league. In part its probably due to my lack of wins = decrease in gate receipts handed out each night.

My average salary per player is 35,114.25. However my big man is 115,555, 41.14% of my total salary. Meaning if I took him off, my average salary per player that plays would be 23,622.71. Is that an indication at all of how good my team is compared to others? Or is there any relevance at all in those numbers?

Granted, I am selling one of my 12k trainee guards and picking up a 20-50k paid center in a day or so, which could greatly boost my team and keep the salaries affordable.

As for the interconference play, it does mostly depend on the home/away scheduling, as the seasons go on, the tougher the league will become, which will then depend more and more on the scheduling.
Teams who have HCA will win more than those on the road as leagues even out in skill.

From: Plotts
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138427.12 in reply to 138427.11
Date: 3/31/2010 11:27:03 AM
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All that brings me to this...

10 teams have Centers as their highest paid player, averaging 28% of their team salary.

NY Wahoos have the highest at 52%, while Cheer has the lowest at 16%. Those two also represent the highest and lowest team salaries in the league. hmmm.

5 teams have Shooting Guards as their highest paid player, averaging 21% of their team salary.

Riders and Freaks share the highest at 23%, while Deronimo has the lowest at 18% of their team salary.

Only 1 team has Power Forward, The Fish. His salary is 25% of the teams total.

No teams have SF or PG.

From: Hokied

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138427.13 in reply to 138427.12
Date: 3/31/2010 5:07:14 PM
Deronimo
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My C is also only 9% of my total salary.

Deepest team in the league? My starters count for around 48% of my total salary. NY Wahoos have 1 player at half. Maybe most balanced? At a 7 deep roster my players are all betwen 9-18% of my roster.

From: Hokied

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Date: 3/31/2010 5:12:13 PM
Deronimo
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On 2nd look the Marauders are the deepest and most balanced. Big Bucks probably 2nd.

My team is still the best bang for the buck (no pun intended) :p

Last edited by Hokied at 3/31/2010 5:12:30 PM

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138427.15 in reply to 138427.14
Date: 3/31/2010 7:11:53 PM
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Well my starters make up roughly 85% of my total team salary, with 2 man deep, right now. However I will be adding another center to that to total 3 off the bench players increasing my depth.
When I return to training big men I'll have a 9-11 man deep rotation, but that wont be for another few seasons since I just picked up Stefan Rozon I gotta train that guy =p

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