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I hurts me ! Probably the worst event for the 4 red teams that are struggling for a BBBL ticket for next season...

i'm just trying to get wins to avoid the economical penalty. that is all. i'm fine with ending last. i'll take the good draft and then be on my way back. i got enough gold to stay, but we all know that the top 4 spots in red competition will be known for atleast the next 2 or 3 seasons. So i'm not even going to try this time around.

I can’t understand your vision, except for economical penalty. That was my aim too until I realized my direct opponents weren’t much stronger than me this season... So 1 or 2 good opportunities on the market to level up my roster should be an interesting option to save my skin in BBBL one more season at least while I keep my training plan in a good way.


Financial incomes are significantly higher in our BBBL than in 2nd and games are more exciting here too. So why are you so interested in draft with a relegation ticket ? Even if player profiles are better than 3 seasons ago, draft is a fuc**** random system with much more disillusions than satisfactions.

My only reason to play lift game should be to try to come back in the other conference and get the HCA during « Tournament week ».

My assumption is that the cowboys, Spartans & Mizu are sitting on considerable cash reserves (10M+) i know that in the EBBL 4 of the top managers have a constant cash reserve of around 12M or more. I'm assuming that for the BBBL, such a thing will be fairly simular. That means that you won't be able to challenge them for a considerable time. One of my last remaining goals in BB is to be able to win a BBBL title at some point. Considering that the top teams sit on so much cash, then it's fairly simple: it ain't happening in this division. So yes, i'm hoping to go to the other division, work my way up, and if all is possible, beat Joe in the final (the reason i'm fixated on Joe is because we started in the same division in IV and he eliminated me from PO contension the first time around, a feat for which i still haven't been able to pay him back for!

So yes, the other division is much more interesting. Even if i were to spend all the cash that i have, if any of those 3 (i'm certain there are others too btw) could still one up me at any given time. So yes, i'm looking for a draftee to train (my traning cycle is nearing it's end and thus a new trainee is only a logical step, and i'd much prefer a drafted player than one bought from the TL)

That's right, I think I'm coming to the end of my BBBL run within a couple of seasons.

I now have a better understanding of how it is to train a SF ; it is very difficult if not impossible to train more than one at a time due to training switches.

When Frans overages I'll only have a single NT player which is something I haven't had since a very long time, and they really did carry me through a lot. At least when I trained dedicated insiders or outsiders I managed to occupy 2 slots with my trained players, with my SF in training I can't even field him at his best spot due to training issues, that's exhausting.

And even if I make it, I'll have a world class SF with crappy players at the other 4 spots, that's useless.

i'm considering selling my SF at the end of the season. but i want to finish him before selling him off tho.

but training SF's is the most rewarding thing there is tho. i love matching him up in the hardest possible match ups and seeing him show up decently

I now have a better understanding of how it is to train a SF ; it is very difficult if not impossible to train more than one at a time due to training switches.

At least when I trained dedicated insiders or outsiders I managed to occupy 2 slots with my trained players, with my SF in training I can't even field him at his best spot due to training issues, that's exhausting.

I can agree with you! training good SF is almost impossible if you want to take part in competition (and certainely if you want to train more than one). Training some NT guy (and certainely when it comes to take him to NT-level) takes about 8 to 9 seasons training and in extra lot of this training is out of position training.

Therefore imo lower ranked teams and the Utopia teams could do nice work. If these teams could do the first training, and... at a certain level put their trainees on the market to provide them to the higher ranked team, which on their turn could do the last ups or fine-tuning of these players . Imo it would be some win-win situation. Not only for the BBBL teams, but also for the lower teams which would eb able to gain experience in training, better players (better ranking), money to acquire better trainers and so on... (such co-operation between BBBL, lower ranked and Utopia teams is a nice big dream for me :p)
And... if we could concentrate on belgian players, certainely a win operation for our NT/U21.

I'm actually in a stadium with my Utopian team where I'll have to sell next season some nice trained guy (I won't be able to affort their salary in the D.IV where I'm in) and with this money I'll acquire myself a better trainer, which will allow me to train even better my belgian youngsters. It's only a pity I can't buy these trained guys with my belgian team (as they woud do a great job in my team)

That's right, I might sign up for an Utopia team some day but I am a bit reluctant to start from scratch. I can remember how awful it was to be unable to afford a trainer, a trainee, although there are also some positive things, such as not caring about results and therefore having an easy time fielding all the trainees.

Not to mention that the main problem is the lack of quality (belgian) players on the market. There are as many youngsters as you want the week after the draft, but not all teams (especially the best ranked, those who can afford a good trainer) can start from scratch : they're looking for semi-trained players and those are seriously lacking on the transfer list. Or their quality / price is not satisfying.

I can remember how awful it was to be unable to afford a trainer, a trainee,

not that awfull as you can start with a level 4 trainer, buy yourself at the start of the season with the draft some trainees (there are really some nice youngsters for 1k on the TL (even able to reach U21)). And once able to get you some trainer level 5, you're started....

although there are also some positive things, such as not caring about results and therefore having an easy time fielding all the trainees.

really correct. The must negative one here is that at a certain moment salaries for the high potentials are becoming to high to affort them in D.IV. So keep in mind to start at time with those secondary skills! If you find some manager willing to train and complete his training, I'm sure he will be gratefull you've trained this difficult out position side-skills

they're looking for semi-trained players and those are seriously lacking on the transfer list

This is correct but imo understandable. I had in the past very frustating experiences in releasing semi-trained players on the market. Very recently I released some U21 worth (almost certain to reach it if trained as it should have been, but not fittin any more in my training plan for the higher potentials) but he's not trained anymore. So I'm very on my hold when putting such nice players on the market and prefer them to be trained as far as possible (certainely when it comes to NT-worth youngsters). However, when I would know for certain they would be trained well, I would not hesitate to transfer them to a new trainer/manager

But:
We don't have a place where we can announce such probable transfers; only when the player is on the market, we can put him on the TL forum... and it has to be read in time by eventually interested managers. Utopia teams can easily keep trainees some extra weeks in their team until it fits the eventually buyer, but they need to be aware of these wishes.
We're in extra not sure the interested manager will in fact be able to acquire the nice player: the marketplace is free for every manager, even for those who never will train the players to their full potential.

and Dartreb, if you decide to start with some Utopia-team, please inform me about your trainees... I could also be interested ;-)


Last edited by AnGi77 at 11/19/2017 9:10:10 AM