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Most Expensive U21 BuzzerBeater Players - Season 32

BuzzerBank's U21 All-Expensive Starting-Five:

PG: Eric Nicodemou (34644892), 6'0", Australia - $ 41 976
SG: Irineos Tsigkos (34586278), 6'0", Greece - $ 33 330
SF: Theodore Richey (35034332), 6'1", Utopia - $ 24 446
PF: Oliver Jacobsson (34984837), 7'0", Finland - $ 55 419
C: Turgay Berdibey (34393710), 7'3'', Turkey - $ 92 923

Top 10 Overall (All Centers):

1. Turgay Berdibey (34393710), 7'3'', Turkey - $ 92 923
2. Viktor Shishkin (34800928), 7'1", Estonia - $ 87 274
3. Eliezer Elbaz (34623350), 7'2", Israel - $ 79 291
4. Casimiro Corrado (34499974), 7'1", Italy - $ 73 403
5. Lev Nosferatyuk (34775465), 7'2", Ukraine - $ 71 711
6. Piotr Slabon (34899606), 6'10", Poland - $ 70 524
7. Massimo Fano (34501029), 7'0'', Italy - $ 69 278
8. Avia Miller (34623245), 7'5", Israel - $ 66 688
9. Clyde Ponce (34286491), 7'1", USA - $ 62 574
10. Zhong Qunfa (34378858), 7'0", China - $ 61 598

Top 10 by position:

Power Forwards:
1. Oliver Jacobsson (34984837), 7'0", Finland - $ 55 419
2. Au-Yong Yeow Whye (35002333), 7'1", Taiwan - $ 52 890
3. Leon Shirinov (34665896), 7'3", Russia - $ 47 026
4. Raini Ainsalu (34800472), 6'10", Estonia - $ 45 942
5. Moisés Santana (34411637), 6'11", Spain - $ 44 574
6. Oreste Lecci (34503899), 7'3", Italy - $ 44 396
7. Andreu Vita (34412606), 7'1", Spain - $ 43 391
8. Flip Strohalm (34640133), 6'10", Netherlands - $ 36 568
9. Jesús David Martínez (34413037), 7'0", Spain - $ 36 366
10. Slobodan Isaković (34752127), 7'0", Serbia - $ 34 677

Small Forwards:
1. Theodore Richey (35034332), 6'1", Utopia - $ 24 446
2. Zeng Xuanyu (34376328), 6'0", China - $ 21 699
3. Alex Angeloni (34687212), 6'2", Chile - $ 20 563
4. Eduards Grislitis (34841019), 6'0", Latvia - $ 20 355
5. Fabià Caballero (34415886), 6'2", Spain - $ 19 594
6. Denjiro Yamanaka (34868968), 6'0", Japan - $ 18 208
7. Jamey Olivas (34286562), 6'3", USA - $ 18 120
8. Kaupo Joa (34801021), 6'3", Estonia - $ 17 883
9. Rivo Tamberg (34801010), 6'3", Estonia - $ 17 638
10. Cale Goode (35032808), 6'4", Utopia - $ 17 634

Shooting Guards:
1. Irineos Tsigkos (34586278), 6'0", Greece - $ 33 330
2. Björn Kindholt (34985139), 6'0", Finland - $ 28 768
3. Doru Gorgorin (34775504), 6'0", Ukraine - $ 28 585
4. Iver Berg (34713744), 6'1", Norway - $ 28 484
5. Nicola Scotti Calmuzzi (34507548), 6'5", Italy - $ 28 139
6. Jari Mettälä (34984449), 6'0", Finland - $ 26 319
7. Ilya Maskaev (34985042), 6'1", Finland - $ 25 992
8. Wong Wai Kay (34823014), 6'1", Hong Kong - $ 25 349
9. Attila Máté (34844470), 6'3", Hungary - $ 25 290
10. Adriano Ibañez (34871470), 6'0", Paraguay - $ 24 760

Point Guards:
1. Eric Nicodemou (34644892), 6'0", Australia - $ 41 976
2. Todd Harris (34288078), 6'0", USA - $ 41 324
3. Ethan Edmondson (35164060), 5'11" (!), Australia - $ 31 385
4. Gökay Mukaddes (34392979), 6'4", Turkey - $ 30 748
5. Marino Maiorano (34505340), 6'0", Italy - $ 29 895
6. Dimitar Rangelov (34784894), 6'0", Bulgaria - $ 29 585
7. Alexis Tsopanakis (34586208), 6'2", Greece - $ 27 683
8. Gatis Dukurs (34840811), 6'4", Latvia - $ 27 544
9. Teodoro Almada (34359635), 6'0", Canada - $ 27 382
10. Rostislav Yatsenko (34665728), 6'1", Russia - $ 27 125

Bonus:

BuzzerCare's All-Retirement Home Forgotten-Five(Six?) - Season 32

PG: Gale Hayden (690127), 62, USA - $ 227
SG: Beržas Kalaciovas (911544), 61, Lithuania - $ 232
SF: Wojciech Roszak (8861474), 56, Poland - $ 232
PF: Jirí Uher (2636755), 60, Czech Republic - $ 238
C: Sébastien Niquette (341056), 62, Canada / Massimiliano Vandini (665641), 61, Italy - $ 235

Last edited by Densler at 8/20/2015 7:57:04 PM

Armenak Haroutyunyan RIP...

He had 316k salary. Season ago he could be #1 at this list easily

(3237761) Dan Kline, just turned 50, getting close :P

Wow...neither Finish SG/SF high salary guys are on the NT.
TSPissues? GS issues? Bad coach?

Both Finnish players were sold just over 2 weeks ago <- gs drop.
Both have been playing all too much -> gs issues <- bad minute management by owners!

It's worth to note that the main reason why some players among the most expensive in the game are not part of their NT might not be bad playing time management nor are said players unwanted by experienced managers exclusively because of their high salaries or because of bad game shape mid-season. There are high-paid players that are overtrained in the skill(s) that have the biggest impact on salary for their respective position. That might lead to other very relevant skills (even more relevant level-wise than the overtrained ones in most cases) being at underwhelming levels even for high-level division matchups against players with way lower salaries. The amount of players with that kind of profile used to be higher in the past, and has been decreasing majorly, but many of them still exist. This kind of player might still be in a NT roster, though, due to either lack of quality players available (in the case of small BB countries) or just by debatable choice.

There's also the cases in which players are all-around decently trained but still have the most expensive skill(s) trained to a point where, given the same salary, a different skill distribution could have a higher impact on court in most matchups and thus would make those players more attractive to a higher number of managers. These players should still be eyed by most NTs, but not really by managers that aim to conciliate on-court success with a positive financial balance.

I don't know the skills of the majority of the players on the top 10s by position, but, when trying to translate "salary" to "effectiveness", I'd say that the PF list is likely to be the most precise one. However, some of them probably still have overkill JS and/or undertrained OD and Passing for the most frequent matchups at NT level. The SG list is probably the one consisting of the least effective players/salary at any level.

Regarding Franković, he is just way too expensive for any team that's not going all-out to try to win. Personally, for conventional big men, pretty much none with a weekly salary above $ 140,000 should be considered as an option in any team that's both economically healthy and successful.

Last edited by Densler at 8/24/2015 8:01:32 PM

I realized that I somehow missed four Small Forwards that should rank between Mykhaylo Leschenko and Viktor Chernoivanov on the senior list. They are properly ranked now.