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I would be careful with the money. Market prices are pretty high right now, you could end up wasting your fortune if you are careless.

If I was you, I would get two MVP+ young trainees, and slowly improve through divisions, relearning about the game. You should target NBBA return by the time your trainees are in their prime. That way you're going a safe path, and it might keep the game interesting. Try to get American trainees and target them to be NT stars eventually.

Buying some random players and steamrolling through lower leagues would probably get you bored, you should enjoy the process of building your core players, and franchise around them.

Great info, thanks. GDP came in just as I left. Has it been proven to make much of a difference? e.g I used to have rule-of-thumbs for TIEvsNvsCT for point differential, can say getting it right is worth x points?
I like your strategy. I'm scottish so the best way for me to improve while hoarding the cash the one i'll take!

This is fantastic, thank you. I love the suggestion of a player with high SB. Has it been buffed to make it a bigger contribution to defense? Is SB on guards a big thing now? Love the JR change too. Outside-focused defensive PF anyone?

2) Blank lineups were removed
8) If players are dressed, but not set in a lineup, the coach uses his best judgement

So how has the blank line-up thing affected things? I used it almost all the time! How do these points overlap?

12) Players with higher stamina can play more minutes than players with low stamina and still have good GS

This is cool!

Thanks again.

Great points. Big fan of sustainable growth. Thanks!

Hi E.B.W.
Thanks for the in-depth look. This looks like a great strategy.

I previously loved picking up older trainees as they always seemed like a lot better value and most of the hard work had already been done! Only reason for younger ones was to make a truly unique player. The 3-senior USA NT players i had back in the day really helped my dominate the NBBA financially so I can see the benefit of USA-only on my merch.

I've copied this strategy to my google drive, will be referring to it as i move forward. I've still got the bookmark to the USA offsite and i'll go troll through those forums and databases see what I can unearth. It looks like i'm still registered!

Thanks again!

You can still partially blank a lineup at 2 or less positions. If you blank 3 or more positions, the coach fills the depth chart however he wants.

Good to see you active again! Seems like others have covered a lot of stuff so I'll just speak to the viability of a non-LI team.

I've more or less run an outside team the entire time I've played BB and have put a lot of energy into determining the most salary efficient aspects of player builds. There are a few stats that I go out of my way to punt at different positions to keep costs down and that's resulted in a pretty decent, cheap team. I'm not entirely sure how viable this team is at the NBBA level as I've spent my first two seasons building up $$$ (a fraction of what you've amassed) with a cheap roster while I finish polishing off my trainees Glass and Rojas, but next season I'm firing my trainer, doing team training all year and will be looking to add another elite piece or two in hopes of winning a title so I guess then I'll know if the model actually has staying power.

I don't think there are too very many other high level USA teams trying this (hrudey is rebuilding and World Idea Toys went bot a couple seasons ago). It would be fun to see you give an outside-based offense a shot and at the very least it would allow me not to be all by myself at Three Point Shooters Anonymous meetings.

Has it been buffed to make it a bigger contribution to defense? Is SB on guards a big thing now? Love the JR change too. Outside-focused defensive PF anyone?

I'm not sure if I would say it's buffed, but more people are starting to see it's useful. SB on guards hasn't caught on yet. I'm with you on the outside/defensive PF.

Haha, sounds like a plan! I'm going to BBmail you about those stats! ;) I'm guessing one of them is Handling, perhaps another is RB, but I do love some Guard RB! Out of interest, do you think IS is important on your outside shooting guards (or any of your positions for that matter? My dominant LI team was all about the super-high IS/OD on my guards, well, that and a top-10 world SF.

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I like IS on my guards but only because the cost is basically free. Really everything is a matter of the cost per skill point which of course is different for every position. There are a few skills that would be nice to have but just aren't worth it because you could be spending that money more efficiently elsewhere. I don't want to go into full details in this thread but definitely message me regarding that and I'd like to pick your brain on some stuff as well!

Being someone who has ALWAYS squandered their payola I know about hunting down those values in the discount racks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes and there are still come ups out there, though some of them do smell like R-Kelly's sheets.



Question is. is there time to pull off a coup here and now??? If you think so, go for it, I personally have always gone the George Allen route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QI8s4XdLo and those are the cats you can get for a song this time of year.

Three games to overcome with six to go, if you can get there everyone above better start getting real nervous.




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