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Don't know if this has been posted before, but it's about a year old. Pretty interesting article about the founding of BB and how the guys came about developing it.

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/08/04/weekly5-Vi...

BuzzerBeater member Edju Martin, a Salisbury-based tech support worker, said competing against other members requires planning and patience.

“You’re not going against artificial intelligence that becomes predictable over time,” Martin said. “You get a lot of satisfaction from outsmarting someone else.”

What a dink.

Hey guys!

I got a great idea. How about an article in SLAM? It's probably the most popular basketball mag in the US and the world! There's this section called "Under Review" in the mag and maybe someone can feature it there. Or, you can just put an advertisement in there. I also got one of my classmates to play BB. He's a fanatic just like me. I also sent out emails to my friends to see if their interested. Mabuhay!

BB-Mail anytime!

-MatthewBlaze-



Last edited by MatthewBlaze at 12/20/2009 4:52:41 AM

in China we already have our E-MAGAZINE u can take a look :)
http://bbs.hoopchina.com/885744.html

BB you can listen live matches on greek net radio: www.radiofasi.com

Only greek lang, and only greek matches!

On your blog your saying: ''Another thing that had me hooked is the playoff system at the end of the season. In most of these manager games, championships are based only upon regular season record, as is more common in Europe.'' Thats false. Europe has play offs on basketball on the domestic leagues at least. What we dont have is the divisions. Euroleague have final four, but to get there you need again to be on the play offs.

We dont have play offs for football (soccer for the Americans)

Edit: An other mistake: Recommended positions are changing with certain skills development. Not once in a season

Overall nice work/try

Last edited by JohnnyB at 1/11/2010 6:16:57 AM

On your blog your saying: ''Another thing that had me hooked is the playoff system at the end of the season. In most of these manager games, championships are based only upon regular season record, as is more common in Europe.'' Thats false. Europe has play offs on basketball on the domestic leagues at least. What we dont have is the divisions. Euroleague have final four, but to get there you need again to be on the play offs.

He said "more common", not "only".

Again is false. I dont know any league in Europe that doesnt have play offs. Even my small country(just 700-800k) with very little interest for basketball we have play offs.

Again is false. I dont know any league in Europe that doesnt have play offs. Even my small country(just 700-800k) with very little interest for basketball we have play offs.

It's MORE COMMON in Europe to have no playoffs in SPORTS

NO ONE said there weren't playoffs in basketball.

Appreciate the feedback, but Juice is exactly right. EVERY team sports league in the United States (except for Division 1-A college football, and even they have a 1-game championship "playoff") has a playoff. Even some of the individual sports (PGA Tour, Nascar) are adding them. And in college football, everyone without a financial interest in the current system is clamoring to have one. Given that a large majority of my readership is American, they might be totally perplexed by any sports league not having a playoff to decide it's champion. The implication was simply that, in all sports in general, the idea of deciding a team champion based on the regular season record is a wholly European idea.

The blog isn't about buzzerbeater, it's about online manager games. Many (or most) manager games decide champions based on regular season record, and it might have partially to do with ease of programming, but it also has to do with the fact that most of these games are run by Europeans, where this is a MORE familiar system.

To an American reader (as Juice demonstrates) this makes a lot of sense. Not to be egocentric about it, but that's just where most of my readership has been from.

Hope that clears it up, and again thanks for the feedback. Didn't know positions updated throughout the year, because I guess I only notice them after the season change. :-)