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Don't worry Meteors you can cancel me off the radar now, I just spent 800k on a reject.
I had several windows open at the time and bidded on the wrong player. ffs.

this is what happens when your chatting, watching the houston rockets/detroit pistons game and monitoring several players all at once... i fail at multitasking.. GG

At least we know for a fact that you are male :P

I am curious as to what people think the biggest difference in between Div III and Div II.

Also how have the new promoted teams found Div II

and none of 'I just logged in and there it was'

Last edited by Holtz at 12/8/2010 2:25:14 AM

well i was born in d3/6 in season 10 r4 so i aint as old as some, the only season 10 team in the league and the dingers are the only s11, funny that my 3 buddies are the next 3 youngest, koop, kynlala and cowboys are all s9

ill tell you some things that are the same first

1) win lose or draw you gotta improve your team, training and making money have to be keys to your long term success
2) at least half the games are no-contest in d3 half the league are scrubs that you spank without thinking, for a new team half the teams are unbeatable so just manage training and gs and dont try to win
3) stars win games, sure it is nice to have a balanced team but of the teams i know best myself, iwen and koop our teams really rely on a few stars
4) you have to always be parient, each game needs to help set you up for the following game, week, season
5) injuries are $#!+

differences

1) money, obv you make a lot more, but it is easy to spend a lot more too and end up going no-where, you have a lot more options and with 2-3 weeks saving you can buy a solid d2 standard backup or passable starter
2) less chat, maybe i was just in a very active league but this one is really quiet, lucky iwen koop and lukebee all chat in our pl forums, there is more discussion there about d2/1 than here, i think the peeps here are more serious, a pity
3) insane off the charts players, yeah maybe it is relative, there are stars in d2 too but here there are all these insane nt/u21/100k+ dudes that really dominate games, it makes things very unpredicatble especially when the cup is on as those guys pop in one game and smash a strong team then pop out the next and the teams loses what should be an easy one (one day xie will be one of those players)
4) every win is important, yeah it can be in d3 as well but mostly you are fairly flexible, it seems here things are much tighter and one loss can change everything (eg 0.00 left and thunder scores to force ot, then 0.00 left in ot we foul him ftl - could cost us from 3rd to 5th) ps - thx ratty for getting one back for me :)
5) hard to train rookies - i have 2 18yos i have tried to give 48+ every week this season, but it is painful at times
6) a little depressing knowing that you are many seasons away from winning

one thing we feel proud of is our start of season predictions

at the start we had a look and tried to work out which teams were the best

we said best teams were

The Meateors A+
Steves Crocs A
Razzle Dazzles A
DownUnder Thunder A
Koopasaurus A

fairly close to the real sitch

we also feel good that we can compete with those teams and when we try are in with a shot

+1 Most of what Fishy said!
I was expecting it to be a lot harder to win a game here. I have done better than I thought I would. I thought I'd be scraping to get to 6th/7th position for the whole season...
It's not over yet though, I could still end up there over the next few weeks. It's gonna be a tight run home for us guys at 4th-7th.
Good luck everyone!

I think you guys overrate my team..

Also how have the new promoted teams found Div II

I've enjoyed having giant wads of cash thrown at me every week

I originally planned on full-on tanking the season with just my 3 trainees and no-one else on my roster, but that got a little boring so I bought some cheap players who should bring me a profit when I sell them before the playoffs. I'm going to buy a full team during the offseason and hopefully sweep through Div 3, should have over $4 million to spend.

I know I can get at least one more win this season, but I don't want to be drafting after Iwen...

why arent you on my side?

i considered that too but i had 6 trainees and one big man that i really liked, i had a small 10 man roster anyway and i thought the other3 would pay for themselves with a long cup run (and i had my pl to consider) and then i kept on winning games and now here i am in 3rd...for the moment...

Funny you say you love the great wads of money, because I hate the shortage of money in the league. It al comes to expectations I suppose. I know of at least Razzle having some troubles coming back to this league from ABBL with the drop in income.

I think div II is where you actually have to plan to win games most of the time, and develop a training plan, you can train some very good players in this division, in ABBL they need to be good to start. You can train up good rookies, but you need the time and a good starting 5.

In ABBL training is soooo much harder. Every game is a tactical one, where as in Div II there are some games where you know you will win, so don't have to worry too much about tactics.

The jump from III to II is one that can be managed so you stay up, the jump from II to ABBL is much harder. If I have learnt something, it is pretty much ignore the positions that your players are said to be the best in, and work out how you want to play them and where.

This season I have started to develop that I have 2 different types of SF, one that can play like a frotn court player, and one that can play like a back court player. I swap them depending on what I think I will need against the other team.

With 5 games left I am hoping to finish on top and get the home court advantage in the playoffs, this is a huge advantage I think, especially in the first 2 rounds (I always thought they should play the 1st round best of 1, the 2nd round best of 3, and the final best of 5) but that would take too long in the game.....but the $$$ would be nice :)

This season I have started to develop that I have 2 different types of SF, one that can play like a frotn court player, and one that can play like a back court player. I swap them depending on what I think I will need against the other team.

Why not just develop one who can do both?

To hard to train with other players in mind.
If I have a small forward that has a strong ID rating, and a small forward that has a strong OD rating, I can then focus on training other aspect for them such as driving, shooting, etc.

I find that having a small forward with strong inside defence and rebounding, and a small forward with stronger outside defence and handling/passing, I can train a skill that suits them and the other guards like shooting or outside scoring, give them both 48 minutes over the week and they both become better players.

I generally train guard type skills including outside shooting, handling and passing, and buy my big men. I find this is working better for me.

I suppose it comes from ABBL where defence is king, in ABBL all they talk about is defence, some more defence, and then for a change....defence.

Ah.

I'm training the most ridiculous SF ever, it's real tough.. But the most rewarding for sure.