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I was asking that to myself some minutes ago...

I absolutely agree. An African team can't compete in B3. Maybe you will win a game or two, but the title? Impossible. Look at some of the best teams; we can't maintain these kind of players (teams with 1.300.000$ in salaries...). Neither the stadium nor having national players will allow it, it's not enough...

I have 939.000$ in salaries and negative weekly balance of -130.000€.

In season 50, I managed to reach the round of 16 in B3.
In season 41, E-5 (former South African "legend") reached the quarter-finals.
He was even #1 in the world rankings for a few weeks.
I wouldn't say it's easy but I think it's possible to compete in B3 for an African team.

I think we will need a deep knowledge of the BB's engine if we want to bring the B3 to África. Economically it's really hard; at least for me...

As you have noticed, the more the seasons increase, the more difficult it is for an African team to arrive. The problem is the salary margin. At a certain point we do not earn enough to retain our best players, otherwise the deficit is enormous and the Ticketing does not benefit us. Before we can compete I think we will have to see the problem there. And it doesn't just stop at the B3 even our national teams whether it's the U21 or the national team we struggle to survive at the high level especially against other countries. Most of our best are held by playing with two teams.

I think one of the reasons is that we don't develop enough high potential homegrown players (MVP/HOF). A local player selected for the NT brings in a lot of merchandising (between 15 and 20% of his salary). It seems that there has been a recent change for foreign players also in their NT and that the return on merchandising is now almost equivalent.
When it comes to attendance, you need to find the right prices with a well-built arena. After a league or cup title, there is a significant increase in ticket sales the following season, which can be very useful.

Personally, I was forced to sell all my best players because finances were in the red. Training young players takes a lot of time.
You can't build a competitive team without putting yourself in financial jeopardy.

No pain, no gain ! :D

I won the league one time with what i thought was a decent squad but as everyone mentioned we barely win a game in b3. From what i have seen i think it’s possible to be competitive but it takes a lot of patience and i think training 2 or 3 of your main players along with having NT players plus arena income could atleast push you far. Sandy has been competitive for the longest time and still maintains a very competitive squad i’m sure this season he will challenge so it is very possible to stay at the top for a while.

I think BB changed rules because of me. There was a season where I tanked in I. and I scouted the entire league, there was 0 players with 5* potential...


It is very difficult, when you plan on drafting, because you can't draft in II. league since it's full of bots, and you get a very low player.

I tried to train 2 of my players before but I did a lot of mistakes and they did not end up that good, I hope I can try to find something this season in the draft, if not I will tank for the next season and then initiate training process.

Otherwise only way to compete at B3 level is for you to tank a few seasons, gather like 15M or 20M in savings, and then build your team around that.

Just look how many 160TSP players were available in the transfer list in the last seasons, it's very easy to make a starting team full of 160 TSP players and spend less than 8-10M in total. But you have to plan well. Shot blocking bigs are the new wave and they are very useful since most of the time they have lower salaries, like around 150k but they perform like 250k bigs so you can offset that salary you are saving and invest in other positions. With merchandise nowadays it is possible to have a 1M+ team even in Africa without nationals, but you have to be lucky that your players are in the leaderboard table, and more you have to be lucky that they perform well enough to be in top global rankings so you have optimal intake.

Even so, I have a moldovan national that I have trained in the last seasons, he's not in the leaderboards, he's not from Egypt, but look how much merch he gives me:

Vasile Cebotari $ 68 264


He would probably be close to 80k in merch if he was in leaderboards, and then you have all star week that boosts merch even more, so taking advantage of these thin margins can help you plan for a B3 campaign. It's important that you are knowleadgeable of all these details, but also of the match engine, current top tactics, current top builds, you cannot compete in B3 with a 250k guard who has 22 JS, 22 OD, but 11 IS.

Then you have gameshape, stamina, experience, all very important details that you need to take into account so your players can compete in the B3 and league. For example Thioffy's players are all in mediocre or average shape, as a league winner he's gonna get his ass kicked in the B3 like that. I think our league is fairly easy to win and quite uncompetitive. First the teams in this league need to realize proper ways to build their teams.

We cannot have teams like Sandy, who have 2 top players with 100k+ salary and the rest of the team is below 60k salary.

It affects negatively league salary floor because it's lower, and TV contract which is also lower. Honestly I have never felt a bigger desire to win the league than to train players. I may try to challenge in the upcoming seasons just for fun. But it would be nice if teams 'revolutionized' their way of thinking and building, and looked at top leagues like Finland where teams salaries average is around 1M. Or we are going to stay like this.

Teams like Baseline, Pythons, CrowZero, Phoenix Suns, Fnidek Superstars should not even be allowed in I. in first place. Just take a look at their salaries and players, some of them are also not paying salary floor so they are going to be farming 300k or 400k weekly. These teams affect our salary floor and TV contract VERY negatively.


Probably best solution would be to merge nations of africa, nations of asia, nations of america ...

As it is right now it's just sad to even try to compete..