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Heya

I'd like to write a quick note here about the current inflation and our "National Bank (BB) not suppling enough offer for the demand". (i know, normally National banks can only control liquidity and not production)

Why are there only about 4-5 "useful" FA's (Guards) this week if there are at least 50+ (i have no clue, i just know of about 3-4 teams in my closer environment) sitting on 4-5mio+ cash. (Useful = 40k+ balanced salary players)

I do not think it's correct needing to pay 5-6mio for a player that used to be worth 1.8-2.5mio. Yes.. i am talking about ordinary 9-10 skill guards (average like 9.5 on the 6 skills) selling for 4mio+, which is an absolute joke. Moreover it gets even more ugly, when you sold players 3-4 weeks ago and now need to buy players, but can't even afford a slightest upgrade, even if you add another million on top of what you got for your sold player.

Oh and just to clarify. This isn't a whine post. I study economics since 4 years and also have some knowledge about inflation and monetary policy.

Since i do not want to complain without offering a solution, i'll also write what i think would help a lot.

I think adding another 4-5 highly skilled players for every position (average 12-13 for the important skills ~40k+ salary) & 4-5 medium skilled (average 9-10 skills, ~20-40k salary) every week for the next couple of weeks would help reducing the liquidity in the market. Managers with lots of money can spend their 6-7mio on the highly skilled players and the ones with 2-4mio can get their 30k players and things should balanced the market down a bit within 3-4 weeks. Of course we will not see the same prices we saw 5-6 weeks ago, but normalizing things a bit would definitely not harm.

I also think it would be more than fair to have some interest on banked money. 0.125% would already be major - but i guess we're far from that..?

Any thoughts and feedbacks?

Last edited by shades236 at 11/2/2009 7:48:02 AM

If nobody buys players at high prices,nobody would list them that high. As long as there are people paying high prices, that's what the market price is. If you can't upgrade yur team with players, you could look into investing in your arena, hiring better staff, or putting some money into higher quality trainees that you will be able to sell and turn into an upgrade.
Just because you don't think it's correct, doesn't mean it isn't correct.

Just because you don't think it's correct, doesn't mean it isn't correct.

Well, if you are in the situation like (117703) starting up with these (/team/117703/players.aspx), it's hard to make it through to the end of the season without buying some new players. And where do you find cash? Maybe selling 10 players to be able find a mediocre one at a cost of too much. I think this is a self-killing development in this game.

dont delete my whole message, just retype it so that there's no link / that he isn't mentioned by name.

Well, what Fotocopiator deleted was a player that got sold for 5.6 mio last week and is now getting sold for 6.6mio + (he's still on TM, so we don't know yet).

How yould you explain that being the "normal" economie? Since you think it's normal.

In one known league to me: a player bought around a month ago for 3.6M and now transfer-listed for 6.5M, 25 yo, no improvements. If such deals would go through it's not a very healthy sign of economy.
True, this is way too optimistic try by the seller but with current situation you never know:)
That's how they do it today and I admit I don't like it.

so in the short time it seems free agent = no reduction. I can write here that till next season the average price market will not decrease, in the meantime everyone will improve the arenas or second option will save money for the future or in the best case increase the arenas and save the money at the same time, it means that until half of next season there will be teams able to pay a lot of money for the best players. What is not clear at all to me is if this market is acceptable for the BBs and once again I don't know what will happen next season...

I agree with your analysis for the teams in the top divisions. However, new players in the lower divisions are probably looking at many seasons before, if ever, they will be able to compete in an economic or game play sense. In fact it seems to me that only the teams that started when buzzerbeater was created (within a year or so) will ever be in the upper leagues. With the top teams ability to purchase the best of the transfer list 18 year olds and huge warchests it seems unlikely that, even given many seasons a lower level team will approach the top. Although it is great to think you could train your way to the top, in reality in order to compete even in the lower divisions you would have to sell your best trainees. Anyway the game (without the economy part) is really fun and competing in your own niche will have to do.