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I think what Gologol said makes a lot sense. Your roster looks pretty decent right now, certainly more than good for a DV team. Your roster may be good, mediocre, or weak depending on what DIV league you get into. Money is tough to come by in BB, so don't waste it when you have it.

My son promoted to DIV this season and started out 5-0. He lost his first game this week, and the roof was about to come off!! He wanted to go crazy selling and buying guys, and I told him to chill, let the dust settle. In this game, he lost playing Tie against Normal, and had 1 less enthusiasm. So a 5 point loss isn't a deal breaker. Coming in, 5-1 would have never been expected, so he's doing great. He's one game away (like all of us) from finishing up playing every team in his conferece. As well as he is doing, I suggested getting through the next trimester of playing everyone in the other conference one time. At that point he will have played every team in the league, and should have a pretty good idea where he stands. He should know where he is strong, and where he is weak. Of course, if he started off 1-5, then my advice would be very different, and where he stands would already be obvious.

So after 15 games, he will have a ton more money, most likely still be 1st, or at least 2nd place, and then be in a better position of making accurate decisions regarding his roster. The same for you, you don't even know what your DIV league looks like yet...if you can cruise through and make the playoffs with the roster you have, and accumulate money, then that would be awesome. By contrast, if you get in a tough DIV league, you may need better quality players just to avoid relegation. Also, all of the leagues vary in style too. If the best teams in your league have high octane offenses, you will need to make a choice in relation to your personnel decisions whether you should add offensive players to keep up, or add defense to slow them down. Or if you have a league with nightmare defenses, may you need particular kinds of players to offset it.

Be patient!

Last edited by Jason at 10/28/2010 12:24:10 PM

Thank you for your answeres guys. I should have plenty of money still if i get promoted along with good trainees who by next year should be some studs i think. I actually hope i go into a very competitive league to help my learning continue. Hope to compete with one of you next year!

I can't believe you have advanced 20 000 in the world rankings in one season! Congrats! I will be hoping we don't meet again in the cup this year :p

Yeah, that's the ticket . . . . feed his ego on that one . . . .

There have been allegations that Barry Bonds was consulted regarding team testing on Jason's team . . . but it could be rumor. I'm not saying . . .. I'm just sayin' . . . . .

I can't believe you have advanced 20 000 in the world rankings in one season! Congrats! I will be hoping we don't meet again in the cup this year :p

Thanks! It's been a fast progression...but I beat two teams in the cup before you beat me that were ranked high, my league is loaded with high ranked teams, so its been easy to make serious jumps when I am consistently playing teams ranked between 350 and 750 in the USA. Now that I am 386, I don't anticipate moving up nearly as fast, or much at all. Its going to be a lot tougher...but its been a fun ride so far! I just try to keep learning, and adding to my team whenever I can! Good luck to you the rest of the way!!

I can't believe you have advanced 20 000 in the world rankings in one season! Congrats! I will be hoping we don't meet again in the cup this year :p

Yeah, that's the ticket . . . . feed his ego on that one . . . .

There have been allegations that Barry Bonds was consulted regarding team testing on Jason's team . . . but it could be rumor. I'm not saying . . .. I'm just sayin' . . . . .

Well, if you must know, its not just Barry Bonds that we consulted...We also consulted Brian Bosworth, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemmons, and your mom! :-)


Last edited by Jason at 10/28/2010 6:54:08 PM

Not sure if this breaks the no advertising for scrimmages rule, if it does feel free to delete.

Just had a kind of fun sounding idea for a kind of scrimmage tournament for D.IV and D.V teams out of the cup.

Would need at least 8 teams, 16 would be more fun.

I'd be willing to set it up, what I was thinking was that it would be highest ranking vs. lowest ranking in each round.(so no set bracket, it would be reworked each round.)

Home court would be determined at random-me flipping a coin:)

Anyone in D.IV or V would be welcome join and hopefully we could start it not this week but in 2 to 3 weeks.

If anyone else has any ideas they would be welcome.

I thought maybe if we could get multiple teams from each league (IV.10 for example) that we could scrimmage multiple teams from another league in the same week. Much to the format as events such as the ACC/BIG10 challenge. Something like that, with more than 2 leagues could have a tournament format.

I'm sure IV.10 could have multiple representatives, not sure if other leagues have enough active managers to challenge you guys.;)

I might have one other guy from my league I could get in on it.

I would be interested in the div IV and V tournament thing. The only thing is im still in the USA tournament so idk if i could do it:(...im sure ill lose here soon though

I feel that I would have some trouble getting guys from my league to compete as well. Almost everyone but myself, and 4 or 5 others are legit contenders for the league title. So I doubt that those guys would take any scrimmage serious at all.

Yep, it's true that anyone participating would have to try to balance league goals with it, it would be kind of anticlimatic if all of the sudden in the final somebody had to play their subs due to minutes.