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You just described the profile of any player that wants to play a manager style game. If the newbie starts BB and thinks it's too hard because it takes too much time to build a strong team he will feel the same with all manager games. If they want something quick and that doesn't take much time just play the regular "you control the players and edit their abilities as you wish" games.

The only problem for newbies, and I can say that because I am one, is that the only way for a newcomer to get profit is to sell good players, and with the inflation, due to the game being new and all, it's hard to buy good trainees...

I started in the middle of last season, my team was really old in average. Only in the start of this season I got to buy some trainees and not good ones, just average. And that because I sold my best old players from the last season.

Last edited by LA-Nandoss at 3/1/2008 3:58:23 PM

As you all can see I started last season myself. I got promoted thanks to the fact that of "bot-sweeping".

Now I'm competing in the Dutch 2nd division. And So far so good, I would say.

Thanks to all the people who shared their precious opinions about how a newbie CAN play the game. I really glad.

Thanks.

I have not sell bought players that much...

Think it is very easy to kepp up with the economy, as long with the TV games you increase your account a bit.

then after first player sell you get a lot of money.

wait, and have patience...thats the main skill you have in manager games....LA Lakers wasnt builded up in 3 months

Thanks for the tip , man.

And you're right....by the way, see what happened after Jordan left the Bulls.

after one season i made 600K for a guy.
have 4-5 guys left, bought a 1 mille PF/SF that I will train some.

when I sell next guy I make 1 mille more.

Well, I think the problem is you have no good prospects. If you do training right you can get some decent money. As you can see, I've made 1.3 mil over the last one and a half seasons. If I didn't buy new, better prospects, I would have made even more than that (roughly 2 mil). Now, I have 1.3 mil in the bank and 3 good prospects. There's no need to DT.... I could upgrade my other players but atm, there's no need to.

Last edited by achan at 3/14/2008 2:12:21 AM

YOU GUYS WHO SHARED HERE REALLY MAKES IT SO INSPIRING!

reading this makes one spirit or my spirit lighten up!

just wanna say it to those who took time in sharing!

I guess you're right. Like I said before, my team wasn't ready for a higher division yet. And last season I didn't spend much on Scouting (you know, newbie) , so my draft wasn't that good. Plus the fact that I still don't really have a full proof training program yet, maybe you have some idea's for that......

Well, I 've played a few manager games so I sort of already had a feel for this sort of stuff. For training, you want to get some good, young prospects. I don't know how much money you have, but you'll want to sell all your older useless players and instead buy the maximum number of prospects you can train. You can train big men or train guards--it's up to you. I'd say training big men is easier since there are less skills to train but I think training guards is more profitable.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. And i am happy to see that there are not so many "manage your team better" answers in here so far.

I do not regard daytraders as a main obstacle in BB. (In case you check my tranfer history, I made a lot of trades and some profit, but only very little from some bad daytrade attempts. I am just not smart enough for that. The profit stems 80% from selling trainees.) (EDIT: ~ 3% from daytrade attempts...)

Why I find your post so tempting is because you describe problems of being in a higher division. I feel the same about BB like you, fascination and frustration mingle, but I was put in a low division and it is no fun down here either.

Most managers trying to "help" a division IV. noob cannot even imagine how little money we have down here. I average 75k spectator income (after 1 1/2 seasons) and 9k merchandising. I train hard and therefore my trainees have wages of 4-8k, this will probably double next week. If I want some spectators to come and have a chance of promotion I need 60-75k wages (before update). Staff and scouting round it up and the TV games merely cover the losses.

That's fine, but trainees get better and ask for more wages, so basically without trading/selling the losses get bigger by time. Or you simply stop training.

I understand that BBs artificially want to increase the differences between the divisions. But it's enormously frustrating, if you compare yourself with teams that started the same time but were put in higher divisions. Good to know you have your problems up there as well... ;-)

I like the new changes, because randomized losses against BOTs/weak teams made it even harder. We will see.

I hope you can enjoy your time in div. II, I would be happy to swop divisions with you...
;-)

All the best!

Edit: some spelling

Last edited by Pallu at 3/14/2008 1:29:28 PM

I started out just like you in IV. I bought some medicore trainees, and started training. I went into the red for a while, but now am in first place in II.2 after 2 seasons. (Having started in Season 2). My trainees are all approaching prominent and I am satisfied. I recomend buying trainees after the draft because there will be a huge surplus. My wages are 53k. I average 100k spectator income and only get 11k merchandising. There is so much parity, if you play your cards right, will can be in II, like me. (although I was incredibly lucky).

Pallu: Yes, I can imagine how little you get paid down there, but if your players around 8k salary, it sounds like it might be the year you promote!