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From: shikago

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230495.76 in reply to 230495.69
Date: 1/8/2013 7:19:41 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
III.5
Overall Posts Rated:
849849
[I'll try to add to a rivalry by beating a dead horse. And at a future date questioning your masculinity.]
Actually my "scrubs" play in league games on a regular basis especially during the cup, so I figured I would go out on a limb and count them too. Kenton Anderson played in all games but 1 by the way (27 mpg).

But you're deliberately misrepresenting the situation then. Going out of your way to say you drafted half your team is treating $1k-$2k players (putting up 3-4 game ratings) equal to your bunch of $60K+ guys from other teams. Only 1 of those 6 big $ players was drafted by you. And only 1 non-awful backup was. (at 24 min/game). Cup/Scrimmage games hardly matter regardless. (if at all)

Kenton Anderson hardly supports your cause either. 6.5 rating, 4.6 PPG, 3.7 RPG. He's not even a league appropriate player really. It's the skill of the player that's supposed to matter, not the playing time by itself. (Kenton Anderson doesn't want a Kenton Anderson jersey.)

This whole discussion started by speculating whether or not A-Dub having his 2 best players drafted by him helped merchandise income a great deal or not. And later questioning if having a team with non-drafted Americans would. (as most of your best players are). That's why i used you as an example.


From: shikago

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230495.77 in reply to 230495.73
Date: 1/8/2013 7:28:54 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
III.5
Overall Posts Rated:
849849
[Not yet going to question your masculinity. I will choose to beat the dead horse more instead. Have a few more min to kill...]
Hm which player's jersey is gonna sell more....

I meant his fans would be more likely to buy Alas jerseys than my fans buying Tanner jerseys, (hence the stats) at least this season.

The reason my merchandise isn't as high as it "should be" is...

...so they don't do nearly as well as they could which means not as much merch money.


That doesn't explain things as my merchandise was *still* higher than you both in the pre-season and after the 1 game week one. Where stats were really skewed. So the league leaders had little to nothing to do with it.

Look, your team was coming off a finals appearance & surely had near the max bonus for winning during this season, starting 9-1. You have an all-American roster, and a drafted NT american player. You surely had every single bonus, other than from league leaders. And even there... you have a guy on the league page in both rebounds & assists. While I was coming off demotion and had but 1 American getting starter minutes. In contrast, I was coming off demotion.

That's why I was surprised. Do you not see how that may be surprising?

[I would be entertained if this really did spark a feud now!]


Last edited by shikago at 1/8/2013 7:55:36 PM

From: Lucas

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Date: 1/8/2013 9:18:34 PM
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[I would be entertained if this really did spark a feud now!]


Not at all. :) Nice win by the way.

I was just saying that technically half my team IS drafted and even the scrubs play big minutes in big games...trying to win 3 games a week in D.II gets complicated haha.
And whether anyone thinks having an all american roster is worth it or not is their decision.

The "finally decided to start winning" thing was me completely scrapping my team, and going into extreme rebuild mode (This was right after I drafted Tanner) back when tanking wasn't the thing to do. I got tired of having a decent older team barely competing in D.IV, so I built my team strictly for the future/NBBA, and tried to have Julian, Jeffries, Tanner, and Anaya all developed right as I (huge IF anyway) promote to the NBBA so I could sustain their salaries.
So we'll see how this near 10 season plan plays out...
It's worked out how I planned but I would never do this again, hopefully won't have to, and wouldn't recommend anyone trying it ever. A small rebuild, fine, but what I did was way too risky and expensive. (10 seasons of ridiculous training, trainees costing: 3.5m for Jeffries, 2m for Anaya, and 1m for Julian)

From: shikago

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230495.79 in reply to 230495.78
Date: 1/8/2013 9:30:14 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
III.5
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Wow, that's pretty cool actually.
Discipline + delayed gratification... America needs more you!
(now I'm back to rooting for you. dammit...)

Last edited by shikago at 1/8/2013 9:30:37 PM

From: Lucas

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230495.80 in reply to 230495.79
Date: 1/8/2013 9:57:40 PM
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Hahaha. But how are we gonna have a rivalry if you're rooting for me?
Here's to hoping we somehow meet in the finals, that's sure to renew it. :)

From: A-Dub

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230495.81 in reply to 230495.77
Date: 1/9/2013 8:00:48 PM
Upsyndrome
IV.21
Overall Posts Rated:
708708
Second Team:
Upsyndrome II
That doesn't explain things as my merchandise was *still* higher than you BOTH in the pre-season and after the 1 game week one. Where stats were really skewed. So the league leaders had little to nothing to do with it.


Wait one damn second, by "both," were you implying my team as well? How dare you! I don't care how true your statement is, I feel insulted for some weird ass reason. It's on, our teams are now rivals! Oh, wait... never-mind, almost forgot my team sucks donkey balls.

Last edited by A-Dub at 1/9/2013 8:01:50 PM

"You will lose." -Ivan Drago
From: shikago

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230495.82 in reply to 230495.81
Date: 1/9/2013 11:06:19 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
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Overall Posts Rated:
849849
Wait one damn second, by "both," were you implying my team as well?

No. But guess that was worded awkwardly due to the placement of "in"...
I should have probably wrote "in both" instead of "both in". So meaning in both the preseason and after the 1 game week. (Where "both" is simply referring to the 2 instances, & not anything else.). If that makes more sense?
Wasn't talking about your team!

Edit: Actually, a comma could have just been added between the you & both. So "...higher than you, [added comma] both in X & Y..." There, that's better.

Last edited by shikago at 1/9/2013 11:22:59 PM

From: A-Dub

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230495.83 in reply to 230495.82
Date: 1/10/2013 2:21:01 AM
Upsyndrome
IV.21
Overall Posts Rated:
708708
Second Team:
Upsyndrome II
Now I feel all silly and sh*t. (See what I did there? I googled it. Adding 'and sh*t' to the end of your sentences can help make you appear more thug-like, thus being cool. Although, less cool when you censor it). You should try it.

"You will lose." -Ivan Drago
From: A-Dub

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230495.84 in reply to 230495.78
Date: 1/10/2013 2:37:42 AM
Upsyndrome
IV.21
Overall Posts Rated:
708708
Second Team:
Upsyndrome II
It's worked out how I planned but I would never do this again, hopefully won't have to, and wouldn't recommend anyone trying it ever. A small rebuild, fine, but what I did was way too risky and expensive.


I've tanked down to D-5 from D-3 during my second rebuilding year. I enjoyed D-5, Liu and Gosling were owning at age 18-19, plus they won a championship, lmao. Gosling was close to an MVP but he didn't play enough games.

I think I'm headed back down to D-5, party time!

"You will lose." -Ivan Drago
From: shikago

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Date: 1/10/2013 12:16:03 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
III.5
Overall Posts Rated:
849849
Now I feel all silly and sh*t. (See what I did there? I googled it. Adding 'and sh*t' to the end of your sentences can help make you appear more thug-like, thus being cool. Although, less cool when you censor it). You should try it.

Or an even better alternative to the above is taking the BB Quiz! That's like your suggestion times a million.
(I found out about it by seeing it in a poster's signature & also by hearing people gossip about how awesome it is).

(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/fedoverview.aspx?fe...)

Word on the street is that if enough people answer correctly, you even win a prize! (you can take the quiz by applying to join the federation).


Last edited by shikago at 1/10/2013 12:16:49 PM

From: A-Dub

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230495.86 in reply to 230495.85
Date: 1/10/2013 4:16:00 PM
Upsyndrome
IV.21
Overall Posts Rated:
708708
Second Team:
Upsyndrome II
If enough people answer correctly, you even win a prize!



Lol. I have to rely on other people to get any possible rewards? What type of sick quiz is this? Do you at least grade on a curve?

Last edited by A-Dub at 1/10/2013 4:17:13 PM

"You will lose." -Ivan Drago
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