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I don't see a problem with it, if, you are looking threw the market and find a player that is selling for 1-10k and the player is worth 2-400k.

I think this thread is a bit more concerned for the price difference going the other way. It isnt suspicious at all if a player goes for cheaper than his claimed value, as all of us have the same shot at the player on the TL. It would not be a smart cheat strategy to expect to get player cheaper from alt/friend teams. Someone not involved in this scheme can just (and will most likely) bid up this player until he nears his value. I am constantly checking and rechecking the TL and rarely do I see players going for 20-40 times cheaper than the implied market value. Rarely indeed.

The concern about cheating comes with the opposite scenario. A player valued at 10k going for 200-400k. This is more than likely a 'money transfer' from one team to another and is cheating. As the playoffs near players tend to sell for more than earlier in the season, and seeing a player valued at 1M go for 1.2M isnt a big deal, imo. It is when that 1M player goes for 2.5M that bells start going off. Good judgement is as much a part of reporting fishy transfers as the information you report, again imo.

what i meant by 2-400k was 200 thousand to 400 thousand, 2 thousand - 400 thousand. sorry if i confused you. i was talking in comparitive values, not real ones. but clearly im just a noob who has only been playing a little over 2 months.....lol and thanks for the help it is greatly appreciated.

no you wont...

as is said a few times before. as long as you arent trying to cheat, and trust me, you know when you are cheating, than you have nothing to worry about...

this is correct.

So..you're basically saying we should report all suspicious transfer listed players if we see them?

correct.

GMs are alos human and can't be everywhere always, so there indeed will be things we did not see ourselves, and in those cases, yes we rely on the community.
The more help we get from the community in this matter, the more cheaters we will be able to intercept.
Also; the more the community is helping us, the higher the risk cheaters get in when they try to cheat, which will result in many not trying. And that's good for everyone.

If one week there is no demand for a player with a certain amount of skills and the next week there is enormous demand

where in real economy this may be possible, in BB it is not.

as all teams try to improve all the time they are constantly looking for better players. As there are always teams with prety bad players and less bad, and average, and better, and good, and so on. All players except the least good on the TL will always be wanted...

any one player in BB will never go up or down that much from 1 week to the next. There is no such thing as a player that is not wanted this week, and very sought after the next.
Either a lot of teams are interested, or the player is not interesting to anyone. This won't change over a week, not even a month...

what i meant by 2-400k was 200 thousand to 400 thousand, 2 thousand - 400 thousand.

this is a very confusing sentence.

anyway. If you are able to buy a player who is realy worth 200k to 400k, for 10k; then there is no problem with selling him for his real value afterward. I doubt you will be able to though, but in case it does happen, no problem.

Is this typical for the estimated price range or is something not working properly? This player was purchased for 5000 a few days ago and he was immediately relisted, and the low end of his range is still 90000.

I think a good change to the TL would be if a player has been transferred recently(2 weeks maybe), that transaction is displayed instead of the estimated range. I know this info can be found with a click, but as a newer player I never thought to look for it until reading this thread.

Edited to remove player card link. He's on the TL

Last edited by MCSmooth at 1/27/2010 5:00:11 PM

yeah sorry i was very tired when i wrote it. and i have found 2 players like that in the past month. thats the only way i day trade. but its only smart to make a good investment.

i don't like the inflation in market atm...

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