Thanks, now that you've rested the reputation of the NBBA on all the B3 teams from the US (me), this should be fun.
After taking a closer, yet brief, look at the Serie A have to give the advantage to their conferences based on team ratings from recent playoff and end of season games. Not a huge advantage, but noticeable.
But, thats just team ratings, not overall team health and one big thing that stands out is the difference in arena size. Big 8 from the NBBA has an average arena around 16k (14.5 w/o JuicePats massive arena), while the Big from Serie A is around 10k. That's around 1.5m of additional funds the US big 8 has invested over our Italian counterpart.
Also, 1.5m wasn't a huge amount of money last season, it wouldn't even add a good backup then. But, with the recent changes, assume the value of every dollar/euro just doubled, which means the cost to expand to similar arena's bascially just doubled, and 1.5m should get you a much better player this season then it did last season.
We'll see how things line up by the end of this season, I think the edge to the Serie A conferences will be smaller, if at all, when season 7 starts up.
I now fully expect Drunkers and Stella Rossa to obliterate me if we happen to meet.
Last edited by brian at 8/12/2008 11:54:53 AM
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