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It might be that I'm simply myopic so maybe you could expand on that grey area you mentioned with some concrete stuff, if you had any in mind.

1) The training system needs to be looked at properly not patched here and there. You need make it a little easier (maybe allow for 1 player to get training no matter what position he plays and no matter how many minutes he plays) on people and it needs to be faster at least at the beginning when you start training guys.
2) It would also help the sense of progression if training improvements were more visible than just pops when you break the barrier to the next level. You can do this openly with bars OR you could do it more covertly with the possibility of comparing the skills and sublevels to other groups of players (in your league, country, worldwide). So you know that today your PG is in the top 20 percentile for OD and in 4 weeks he's in the top 17 percentile
3) Providing advanced stats
4) Make arena building easier on the new managers (maybe a discount, like 20% off for 3 or 4 seasons)
5) Providing the possibility of customising your team. Such as allowing to change team shirts, the team stadium. As it is what do we have? The avatar? Heck for all I care you might as well code cheerleading into the game and provide an effect similar to the PR specialty if the cheerleaders a manager designs are particularly nice.
6) Design more ways for managers to interact outside Forums and the game chat. Perhaps taunts before a game
7) Better visibility of what's going on in the forums when there are new messages that may be of interest and you are not even signed up to a forum
8) Give more flexibility in organising parallel "fan" leagues also for non suporters. So if I want to organise a friendly game with a friend I'd love to. If I want to organise a league open to D2 teams to determine the best D2 team playing on Mondays I'd love to
9) Let managers to different leagues manage one or more bots (no roster changes of course) in a different league for free?

I can think of a lot of changes that could potentially make the game more engaging for people and that could give a sense of progression for new managers...

When it was only Season Four
I had a dream of Chunky gore
I tripped the Buzzbeater store
And I signed up for this b-ball war

Something I cannot ignore
Like all the folks on every shore
From Canada to Singapore
My BB love grows more and more

All that matters is the score
Of last night’s match and furthermore
Life is better than before
My league received a salary floor

Such as ?
I'm for it, more stats can be funny at times. Not everyone is interested in it though.

We can start with basic advanced stats that exist in the real world. Some people are stat geeks and look forward to those kind of things. Of course, you could have something even more valuable like the stats coming from Moutlinho's tool or those you could find on the US offsite where you had data on success % in guarding/making various kind of shots etc.

How do you define something that could be interesting and something that isn't ? Especially for people that never subscribed to the forums. The "recent" add of the red number for forums was already a small step in the right direction. If we can do better somehow, let's try.

If your NT manager post a message on a league's forum, I guarantee that 12+ managers will not even notice a message has been posted in their league forum.

I realised that someone posted something on my PL forum a season later than they posted...

That's the point of being Supporters. That would cheapen one of the main attraction of it.

Fine, I'm saying that one game per week only for supporters isn't much. Surely you can get creative with that, providing it won't kill the servers with an overload.

Training has to be a bit challenging.

BB would be a lot more challenging if training were logical and everybody could do it and compete. But competition from thousands of managers is exactly what the few at the top don't want, though, so they like training exactly as it is.

You also, could make up interesting challenges with friends/strangers/stranger-friends.

For example, if you want. I challenge you next season, to whom can train a 6th man prospect to average 30 ppg for a season.

that is a challenge at who play patient against the worst opponent not really interesting

I challenge you to do it in only a princeton offense?

Eh eh? let's make it more interesting.

I believe that everyone at the top would be more then glad if they suddenly could train while being competitive. I can't see how it would be any other way.

Certainly not everyone. Of course some would look at it that way. Some would even look at it for the overall benefit it would bring to the game. But it is undeniable human nature that some would prefer to continue to be big fish in a small pond, and prefer that the pond stay small.

Hi Karl Franks, that class conflict of yours is going well ?

An ordinary user would get a "vacation" from the forums for a post like that, eh?