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9) We will impose a transfer deadline shortly before the playoffs. Teams will still be allowed to buy and sell players as much as they would like, but these players will be ineligible to play during the playoffs.

I think this is a great move. Should make the transfer market quite interesting right before the deadline as teams scramble to bolster for the playoffs.

Yeah this is a good move. Plus, I love bolstering things!

When players with salary ] $4500/week are on teams that due to inactivity/ban/etc. become bot teams, those players will be released to the transfer list and will stay in the game. The salary threshhold will increase over time. This is the only change that will take place immediately.

Two questions:-

1. Will players with a salary <$4500 only be released on a team becoming a bot team or will existing bot teams release these players as there are a number of high salary players trapped in existing bot teams?

2. If players from existing bot teams are to be released will this be controlled in waves or will they hit the market all at once?

Jumping the gun but if the players could be wave released by country it might make it interesting for the national teams, provided the national managers could organise sufficient people to pick the players up and then train them.

Jumping the gun but if the players could be wave released by country it might make it interesting for the national teams, provided the national managers could organise sufficient people to pick the players up and then train them.

Although I'm the NT manager for the USA, I still believe that rules such as this should be geared towards the whole community, and not for the benefit mainly of the NTs.

(1) I think this is an extremely good idea. I think one problem that HT got into was that talent levels were dictated by teams quitting and replacements signing up. For example new teams were encouraged to sell their best players. If that team quit, then a new team would be generated that would repeat the process, gradually producing an oversupply of talent.

It also meant that players that you had trained would also disappear. Perhaps, BB could sometime extend this FA TL to veteran players (say 5000+ career minutes). If they don't sell in 3 days, then they can retire.

You should also TL fired players with high salaries (as free agents) so you don't have to worry about sabotage of NT.

I think you should consider making the salary threshold dependent on the nominal position. At $4500, you will get a lot of centers, and fewer guards. Since you suggest that the level would vary over time, you could make it the upper X% at each position.

I think you should recycle other players (from bots and other teams that are being replaced) plus fired players, into new teams. They could be given new identities and countries. but this will help maintain the overall age-skill profile of BB. The extremely low salaried and aged could be removed to compensate for new draft picks, but this might be something like the bottom 1% each week.

You could maybe map the timing of sales to the overall distribution of sales. If there are 3856 players on sale at given instant, pick a random number N between 1-3856 and set the deadline to be the same time as that of player N, but 3 days in the future (it shouldn't be much of a problem that these top players have between 0 and 24 hours extra on the TL). So the team removal can be done at time convenient to BB, but the sales would be at a time that the collective BB community thinks is a good time to sell players. Since these are elite players, it would be quite normal for them to switch countries and continents for their club teams.

(3) There is not currently "driving" training. Does this mean one-on-one, or does it mean that any training that currently gives some driving training will now give some handling skill as well, and vice versa?

(4) Does this mean that 18 YO will train twice as fast as they do now, and that over time this will gradually reduce to 150% as quick as they do now?

And that 28 YO will train 150% faster than they do now, and perhaps a wee bit more?

That is, it sounds like you are increasing the overall training speed by 150% on a more or less permanent basis, and then giving an additional temporary bonus for younger players. Correct?

(5) and (7) this presents a problem to teams since they can only train stamina for the entire team. So you might have an entire team that is proficient in stamina that has to run laps for 3 weeks so that the player coming off re-hab can catch up.

Since stamina can be maintained by playing in games, why can't it be improved by playing in games, especially for those whose current stamina is woeful? Perhaps simply playing 40 minutes a week will boost a player toward (average?) stamina. And then you could use team training to get beyond that. Any player over average stamina, would have to play 40 minutes every week simply to maintain his stamina. 38 minutes one week would drop it a tiny bit, but 42 wouldn't be able to boost it if it is above average.

For players with under 40 minutes, the stamina could move towards a level associated with that PT (eg 20 minutes per week might sustain inept stamina).

(9) Could you tell us now what the transfer deadline will be to be playoff-eligible?

as the wages will raise two times per season why don't you raise also number of season ticket holders twice per season?

as the wages will raise two times per season why don't you raise also number of season ticket holders twice per season?

I agree, as a manager will need to know if he/she can continue to afford training a player if said player's wages increase mid-season. Slightly disrupts long-term planning...