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I believe that the salary for non-national players is slightly higher, the rationale being that it takes more money to get a person to move away from their home. Maybe someone can confirm this.

I've never seen any evidence of this.

I believe that the salary for non-national players is slightly higher, the rationale being that it takes more money to get a person to move away from their home. Maybe someone can confirm this.

Obviously this isn't true for BB. If I bid 280k for a foreign player and then someone from that country outbids me the price isnt altered. I suppose you meant in RL basketball which I could see as a player like Yao Ming would have to pay for translators/extra staff to help him acclimate to life in the US or like Stephon Marbury who is doing the opposite currently. Are you suggesting that because of this, it makes sense for foreign players to cost a little more in BB??

I believe that the salary for non-national players is slightly higher, the rationale being that it takes more money to get a person to move away from their home. Maybe someone can confirm this.

Obviously this isn't true for BB. If I bid 280k for a foreign player and then someone from that country outbids me the price isnt altered. I suppose you meant in RL basketball which I could see as a player like Yao Ming would have to pay for translators/extra staff to help him acclimate to life in the US or like Stephon Marbury who is doing the opposite currently. Are you suggesting that because of this, it makes sense for foreign players to cost a little more in BB??

But in re<ality this won't happen too, or at least not much ;) Ming get paid by value he have on the court, and that would be maybe less as long he lacks with the language etc. - and i am quite sure that he wants to go to america and gets also lot more money then at home because NBA >> CBA. maybe you would have this when, the national and the foreign league are the same strength and a trainer in the foreign leagues wants his dream player from the other one, but in this case even a national agent could get good money for his player because he know Coach X wants him and nobody else.

In Europe lots of league have rules, that you should have X player of their own nationality or out of the EU in the teams(like initially suggested). This give the national or european players extra value, because you could easily get an solid player but if the solid player should come from germany you don't have many choiches to ask and the player/agents know that ;)

I looked back into this since it was a while since this was a raging issue (which is why I was looking for confirmation in my post. Here's a link to a BB-Charles post from over a year ago on this topic:

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This explains why I had stuck in my head that salaries were higher for foreigners in addition to the increased merchandise sales for national players, while it's only the merchandising change that actually happened.

Anyway, I really don't think BB will model itself on European models that set a ceiling on the number of foreign players. Teams from countries with fewer leagues will complain that they are at a disadvantage compared to the countries with more leagues (like Italia, USA, Espana, etc.) since they would have a much smaller pool of free agents to choose from to fill out their rosters, and that would drive up the the transfer costs locally for them. (I personally don't have a problem with that based on the way the BB economy is structured, but that's a discussion for a different thread, and a conversation that's happened in many many posts in the past.) Furthermore, I believe that the BB transfer market philosophy is one that prefers as open an market as possible, but that's not really for me to say.

There is another online manager basketball game that only allows you to roster 5 foreign players for any match. This gives a massive advantahe to players from large nations whose players are as a result much much cheaper than similar players from smaller nations. When you start this is brutal!

Thanks for proving my point that such a direction in this game would create complaints from the countries where there are fewer teams.

horrid idea

how many canadians do the raptors have?

i really miss the ability to be able to 1 ball a post

i really miss the ability to be able to 1 ball a post

Its still availiable, I just 1-balled your post!