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From: tough
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Date: 7/27/2025 2:22:50 PM
Mountain Eagles
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Good Afternoon,


Over the years many teams have hired “Mercenaries” and “Hitmen” for either a specific cup game, or specific league game to get a big win over opposition. Now, in my league this season I have a Leagumate who specifically exposes the economic Monday loophole and deliberately purchases players for his league games that incumbent week and fired them specifically on Sunday night before the economic update to avoid paying salaries.

I propose a solution to this; any player that works for a team after their transfer acquisition commands to be paid, it’s only right since they need to make a livelihood. If player is let go before the economic update, the team that acquired him has to pay either their entire salary or a percentage (like 50%) of that salary for the week if they were to be let go before economic update.

This in turn will aid in the “Rent A Player” approach some teams have towards specific league matches and will help aid the balance of cup and league games going forward.

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Date: 7/27/2025 11:20:22 PM
QQguest
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Who is doing it and is it really efficient ? With the GS hit and the fact that he pays the purchase while not getting money back, it's not great. Even if he does pay less salary.
I checked the B3 teams that currently have 2 wins and 0 losses.
Here are some examples.
/team/188848/transferhistory.aspx
/team/186553/transferhistory.aspx
/team/276261/transferhistory.aspx
/team/178425/transferhistory.aspx
/team/146834/transferhistory.aspx
/team/44271/transferhistory.aspx

Interestingly, replacing or firing a staff member requires paying one week's salary in severance, but that's not the case for players.
It seems like BB did this on purpose.
I wonder if there's a reason behind it?

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Date: 7/28/2025 4:03:28 AM
Swan River Serpents
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I remember using this strategy for a season 30+ seasons ago (for a bit of fun and to try something different) and while it can reap benefits, I don't believe it's sustainable. Why? Because if you play this game long enough, you become somewhat attached to your players (trained or imports) and are less likely to toss them aside on a whim. Buying and selling players weekly is, in my opinion, a boring strategy. However, it is a strategy and within the rules.

BB allows for multiple ways to play it within the rules.

I say leave this aspect of the game as it is.

Home Grown; for teams who like a challenge!
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To: MrJ
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Date: 7/28/2025 5:56:37 PM
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Did you win anything doing this method?.

I think my league is doing the same things. This and abuse of salary floor are a lot to deal with. Also since you've been here awhile. How did you defeat teams of such nature. If it ok,to ask .

From: Joruus

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Date: 7/28/2025 7:26:02 PM
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This method works in lower leagues, I guess not in higher leagues where GS is more important.

From: MrJ

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Date: 7/29/2025 4:19:15 AM
Swan River Serpents
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Did you win anything doing this method?.

I think my league is doing the same things. This and abuse of salary floor are a lot to deal with. Also since you've been here awhile. How did you defeat teams of such nature. If it ok,to ask .


As Joruus noted, you can get away with it in the lower divisions. If I recall correctly I did it in a Div III league and I remember not winning the championship that season. The negatives I recall from that season were the lower GS on bought players (which can be crucial in big games), forgetting to fire them in time (costly mistakes) and, like I alluded to, a lack of care about my team. I only tried this once. Clearly it wasn't a positive enough experience as I never did it again...not even for a one-off game.

Maybe that is why I am now a HG team and loving the growth and development of my players. It's a long and slow process, but I will struggle to let these players go in the future...

Last edited by MrJ at 7/29/2025 4:19:54 AM

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Date: 7/29/2025 5:16:25 AM
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This method works in lower leagues, I guess not in higher leagues where GS is more important.


I live of that in natinal cup, or , sometimes, I buy for few 1K a over 150K salary and fire him.

This rule is to change like hattrick (when you buy a player you pay his salary).

But..meanwhile the engine has this "oppurtunity", I will use.


From: Big city

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Date: 7/29/2025 10:49:43 AM
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Not meant be a smart alick or snide remark. But isn't league 3 mid level, a blend high and lower style players.

I do understand overseas there's no level 4 or 5 division ranks.

As I dwell in the thought of this. When you buy a player you've already paid him per say. So firing one week after that ,is fair. Maybe not on a match perspective. But to the points, I think the end game is, t time to introduce player contracts.

That would a great topic in the forums . players and staff contracts


From: MrJ

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Date: 7/29/2025 9:38:33 PM
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Not meant be a smart alick or snide remark. But isn't league 3 mid level, a blend high and lower style players.

I do understand overseas there's no level 4 or 5 division ranks.

As I dwell in the thought of this. When you buy a player you've already paid him per say. So firing one week after that ,is fair. Maybe not on a match perspective. But to the points, I think the end game is, t time to introduce player contracts.

That would a great topic in the forums . players and staff contracts




Exactly. Like I said earlier, it is a style of play some choose. I tried it but didn't stick with it. However, it's still within the rules.

As for Div III being a 'medium' div, I don't think we have any active Div IV divisions currently, which would make Div III a low division (of active users now) however, I'm talking a lot of seasons ago and Div IV was active back then... So, yeah, I guess it would have made the Aussie Div III more medium than low at that time.

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Date: 8/1/2025 10:24:27 AM
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Interestingly, replacing or firing a staff member requires paying one week's salary in severance, but that's not the case for players.
It seems like BB did this on purpose.
I wonder if there's a reason behind it?
I don't know the reason behind it.

I just thought that new teams might need to fire the players they started with, including star players.
If firing a player requires paying severance, that would be an extra cost for the new team.

Also, for teams that are close to going bankrupt, whether severance is needed might make a difference.
If severance is required, they might need to fire players one week earlier to avoid bankruptcy.

If there's no plan to change the system to make firing players cost severance, it's also possible to suggest this to other managers:
To avoid having listed players treated as disposable by others, you can set the starting bid to be, for example, the same as their salary.