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There are actually quite a few good threads in the suggestions forum that are around possible solutions for a D-League.

The idea has been thrown about previously quite a bit.

In general, the idea was that it would solve a few different 'problems' that currently exist with BB.

a) Draft picks - 75% of picks get fired/sold straight away, if not more. The idea of a D-league would help provide some level of interest with draft picks.
b) Training of draft picks - as above with point a), but obviously with a training component. Who knew that Benchwarmer potential players could get trained!
c) Mid-high level young players - This is the point you made originally, $5k-$10k salary young guys who could come into certain leagues and make an impact straight away.

It is a shame we don't have draftee's who are able to be star's straight away, because thats what the NBA is like, as seen by this year's NBA picks who are starting 5 on some teams. The unfortunately reality is that if we had rookies starting on teams in Div I leagues, it would just ruin the game and a lot of the fundamentals of training etc etc but i think this is obvious to most people.

So yer look im all for it. How i imagine that it would work would be some kind of D-league where, you can just send players and, they play games and get some kind of training. and thats it. No need for setting lineup's or anything like that, these games wouldn't be games that you would manage. Heck your guys would probably play with other teams D-league nominee's.......
It's like an extension of the box score that you get whilst scouting them. You could just nominate players to play in D-league each week ... which makes them unavailable for league and scrimmage - and you get a box score and they get random training. (full 48 mins). Maybe there needs to be a small cost associated with this, or maybe you need to nominate a player for 3 weeks at a time or something like that.

I think the concept should be simple - no game engine interaction, and it should try to solve the above listed problems.

Very close voting 14-13-8 right now. It isn't going to happen with such a split opinion.

Technically, it's 22-13, since the 8 represents people who think it's a good idea, but it needs some changes. I still doubt it'll affect the game though.

It is good idea mate. I kinda like it!:)

Voting right now is 23-16-11, because I accidentally clicked 'Nay' instead of 'Yay'.

I'm not smart enough to think of something like that.

It feels like this idea takes too much work. And it won't help save BB's current state. So, no I'm against it.

I, myself, am against a D-League system by the way.

Why?
In most D.I leagues and D.II leagues of big countries it is near impossible to train two players from 18y old up. You can get away with training one player as you can "hide" him in cup and scrimmage games, but you are so limited in what you can do when you are competitive that most of people regress back to D.II if they want to train.

Sending youngsters do D-league makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't have more training slots because of that and you would pay for it. You can choose not to of course. Right now the system gives no incentive to even be in D.I because:

- you can't train players efficiently
- you can't make any money so your team stagnates

So what would make someone motivate to play in D.I? Championship? You don't get any extra money because of it. You get a full arena for half a season, which normally covers your expenses you had in order to contend for a championship in first place.

I made more money and could train whatever I wanted in D.II. Usual profit was 140k - 200k per week without the cup. I think D-league would solve these problems.

EDIT: I'm sure this will give more incentive to join D.I. Think of it like some sort of award to be there. Sure you get 1M, but 1M in D.I is like a drop in the sea. Right now there is nothing to play for in D.I except glory...

Last edited by Koperboy at 1/10/2014 8:38:07 AM

No no no...

If you would like to make BB more like NBA when it comes to young players you have to work from the existing system i BB, not the NBA.

We have the draft where 18 and 19 year old players are available. Maybe... we could mix in a few older players in the draft to simulate late bloomers, foreign players and so on. Their skills could be higher than the original draftees but should NOT be as high as a 18y draftee with 3 years training (if he is 21). 21 might be the oldest a player could be drafted and he should NOT take a spot in the U21-squad, he should not be that good.

You could view all 20-23 year old players on the TL that have recieved some training during their first seasons as players from D-league

Or you could redo the whole BB-training system and really make it complicated, bigger rosters, salary-negotioations, two-waycontracts, D-league team, individual training to some degree, staff hiring for all positions, including D-league... but then it would not be BB, would it?