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Yes, the new league overview is great.

When you guess/prepare right you use the right tactics to beat your opponent ? refs don't give you one more player on offense ?
Why give a bonus when a good GE should be enough ? You know your opponent will play LI you use 2-3 defense and you hope your defense will be good enough to stop him. Not pray to have a little bonus to change the game.

Here's a little tip:
Don't use 2-3 to defend against an inside offense - it does approximately the same job as a M2M (bar blocking shenanigans on your part).
Use 2-3 if you want a rebounding advantage and don't have to fear an outside offense from your opponent.

About this tactic predicting bonus thing:

Since everyone is playing LI, everyone will predict that his opponent will play LI, so no bonus will be granted :)

Reducing salaries in JR and SB is not an actual tweak, it's a gentle way to tell users to start training SB and play outside tactics. Salarywise outside tactics can be as effective as inside oriented ones. But no one has big guys with 2 ΙS and 16 REB, ID (check his salary). On the other hand, many teams have players with even atrocious JR and play inside tactics hence they have low salary teams (myself included).

I like the changes (except that prediction bonus thing, this is just a joke that punishes teams), I don't like the reasons that caused them. I believe BB's should be more strict in not changing the game because spoiled users, supporters, customers are flooding the forums. They could hint them what to do and not change the game. The tactics are fine, the users don't know what each tactic does and how it is countered. I hope some changes will be just a placebo.

You don't think real teams to this? Guess the opponents game plan and plan to stop it?

Guess the opponents game plan and plan to stop it?

Yeah, this thing exists IRL. It's called defensive tactics and not fortune telling.

No, real teams don't change their game plan from game to game. In fact, most coaches are known for a specific style of play that they have their teams play throughout their entire career.
Of course teams prepare for their opponents, but it's not like they have to guess anything.

Last edited by DerMef at 9/21/2013 7:00:07 AM

This is one extraordinary case where I agree with you Wolph.

This "fortune telling" is a form of a defensive tactic. When you know what offense your opponent is going to play, you can prepare for it and stop it. Teams often adjust their tactics for specific matches and tweak their offense/defense to be more suitable for that game. If the opponent surprises you and plays some other tactic, you'll probably find it hard to cope with that. If you are well prepared, you can pull off a surprise.

This new feature is realistic, fun and can stop any dominant tactic. I think it's one of the best, if not the best feature ever released in BB.

Oh, and all the other things, fan survey, fair play, salary tweaks, boxes on league page... everything is just incredible. Awesome job BBs!

I really dislike the rock paper scissors game with the defensive boost. I think it is a really bad move.

The rest I love. Great job.