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What farms teams do you keep talking about? You keep talking me about these farm teams that hurt BB but no one sees them. Can you send me a link to a team that is a "farm team"?

Now that you mentioned players from the same managers train U21 and NT and don't compete I see some suspects. But you can't prove anything because some people just enjoy training U21/NT. Are these farm teams illegal? If you have just one team and train U21 or NT how's that cheating?

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For this reason I think training the highest level skills, highest level trainers or something along those lines should be limited to higher divisions, to ensure that fake teams in the lower leagues aren't eating up all the NT spots with players that never play in higher level but just sit around on farm team in bottom division.

I would like to see a realism where the best players are playing in the top professional leagues in the world.

I would love to see a player (thru his agent ofcourse) reject a move to your club IF he think he is better then the league-level you are playing at at the moment.

Setting this up in BB could be a daunting task, but doable.
A team collects some sort of "Transferpoints", based on current WR, NR and level of his league he currently playing in.
A player will only accept a transfer to a team with sufficient "Transferpoints".
Teams in the players homecountry gets a little bonus on the "Transferpoints".
Maybe last season or two could affect.
Players already on your team will not be affected. (See Kobe is still cashing checks from Lakers ;-) )

A player who will not sign with your team is shown on the TL with an disabled (grey) Bid-button and some explaning text next to it.
Supporters could filter these players out (feature!). Blocking them from view as a default is not a good way to go.

Thats the end of this OT-post =)

And you chose not to stay up there/could not advance any further. Probably because playing LI all the time is boring ;)

Where you were then and are now is different. I was in the top 100 WR for almost 2 seasons. I beat in b3 competition 3 former champs. I know there are ways to use other offenses and they have their place but LI is the undeniable base for everything, at every level. You get away with not basing yourself around it when the competition is weak, not LI based themself or training/tanking etc.

I bet your current team gets beat by non-LI teams all the time. You aren't in the top 250 right now are you?

I'm not quoting your whole post because this thread apparently blew up while I was away (I haven't read through it yet, either) and if I quote it all, there are no characters left for a response.

I chose not to stay up or advance because I hit the wall financially and agewise - the way I had built the club was that those star potential guys you railed on me as being not worth training who nonetheless played important minutes for me were approaching age 33 (the season I linked to, in fact, one hit 33 and dropped I think 3 levels of OD that season). The guards I had picked up over the seasons to start with them were pretty much the same age, so I was an outside team whose guards were all starting to drop skills. My bigs had several seasons left and were doing fine defensively against LI teams most of the time, but the guards dropping skills was a killer. But look back through the late S20s and look at the scores of my games - see how infrequently teams even got close to 100 on me, and keep in mind I was playing against NT level bigs in some league games and a lot in the PLs.

My current team isn't near the top 250 I don't think nor should it be. I have three 20 year olds now that I'm playing and training at SG that have played pretty much exclusively that position since I acquired them. So of course, you know what that means they are being trained in, and you know that also means that they haven't trained OD yet - though I got an early cross training pop on one of them, which was nifty. The fact that I'm even close to survival in III is evidence that the level of competition there has dropped dramatically. I didn't expect to even be back in III yet, and I actually ended up buying some players this season once I moved up since it looked like I might be able to stick around.

But the travels of my poorly-assembled and occasionally ineptly managed club that somehow fell into at top 1% WR isn't what's important. What matters is that there are roughly 20000 managers playing this game, and about 19500 of them will never approach B3 level competition. They are having it beat into their heads that the only way to play the game is by playing the same game everyone else is. That may well be true at a point - Manon as far as I know is the most successful to date and he reached as far as the round of 32, I think. But below that point, it's proven that with good management, a non-LI team can thrive, despite not having nearly as many players to choose from as an LI team would.

That's nice, was a fine team you had, for a II league. If new guys want to make to this point and no more, they can play every tactic with every kind of players, it's fun.

But we have a different opinion about a word success.

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If you want to be of the top, you have no other way atm, it's sad, but true, inside vs all.

Ofc, everybody have his own opinion, I respect that, but people just need to go to top teams of BB and look their matches, like Mordor, how do he get 3 times in row B3 champ? He had all players like all-round beasts, he could play every tactic he want with that players. But does he played an another tactic then inside?

Well, yeah. You'll notice I have always said there's a point where nobody's proven that non-LI can win above. Manon got pretty far, and that's probably the best.

What I'm saying, however, is that below that point, you can win with non-LI. The question is, how high is that point, and how many users does that really effect? If the only reason to play the game is to be a B3 champion, we might as well just tell 19000+ managers to quit wasting their time - including myself - because we're simply not good enough to do so.