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The reason for more free agents i suspect is because as more and more managers get disillusioned with the lack of economic stability they leave the game and in turn leave behind more players that are suitable to add to the free agent list.

Its a catch 22 situation but Im still yet to be convinced if the inflation has or hasnt been accepted by the community. I would watch the overall number of managers in the game and then you can perhaps make an estimation as to how many free agents might be released at any given time.

I wonder if there are any more plans on the horizon to help find another 5-10,000 BB managers?

man, guys retired at season 4 are now on the maket, and never got old, r u kidding me?

I think so...

This new idea was really bad imho

If that is true thats horrible.

And t removes yearly cump in prices before play offs away which was a natural thing many could count with /me included). Shame on BBs really. :(

If that is true thats horrible.

And t removes yearly cump in prices before play offs away which was a natural thing many could count with /me included). Shame on BBs really. :(

I create and manage a strategy wich includes league position, training, arena expansion and selling time based on the fact we where having an inflation that was supposed to be followed by a smoothly deflation until prices find a "balanced" point.

Now it seems that waves of FAs are going to crush our market, posibly causing an accelerated deflation process.

I did not like the inflation we where having but I made plans considering that scenario, I try to adapt to it and not chill about it. Now there seems to be another change to screw my medium-long term planification.

I understand it is important to control inflation but the "monetary" authority(a.k.a BBs) should tell us what they are thinking. I did not have to opportunity to change my plans, if they would tell us something like "since the actual measures are not having the effect we expected, we are considering to increase the amount of players listed as FAs. This is something we are simply considering and we do not know of we are going to do it or not, this will depend of observed market behavior". With that, I could be able to adjust my plans or leave them as they were on my own word.

I really believed that BBs learnt the lesson whit the first release of FAs: Yes, we do want a stable economy and we support the measures to achieve it but you have let us know what are you planning in order to adapt our expectations and plans.

It seems I was wrong.

Last edited by Zero, the Magi. at 11/7/2009 11:41:29 AM

Just because you fail to adapt to changes, doesn't mean you should blame the BBs. Good managers can adapt.

It seems you have no idea where you are talking about at all. The so called 'wave of FAs' aren't crushing the market, there is no deflation yet. The BBs already said several times what's gonna happen in the long run when the equilibrum is reached. They expect that the prices will be lower then. What's the point of repeating this.

Also almost all changes are announced way before in news items, if you refuse to change your strategy because of the items, then that's your choice. A good example is the announcement about the game engine changes. The BBs announce way before that several skills would be more important, like shot blocking and passing. Training scheme's didn't change much. The new game engine was released and many managers were cursing the engine. That's not because the engine was bad, it was because they failed to change their training strategy two seasons before the engine was released. They blamed someone else, while the made a mistake by theirselves.

Just because you fail to adapt to changes, doesn't mean you should blame the BBs. Good managers can adapt.

It seems you have no idea where you are talking about at all. The so called 'wave of FAs' aren't crushing the market, there is no deflation yet. The BBs already said several times what's gonna happen in the long run when the equilibrum is reached. They expect that the prices will be lower then. What's the point of repeating this.

Also almost all changes are announced way before in news items, if you refuse to change your strategy because of the items, then that's your choice. A good example is the announcement about the game engine changes. The BBs announce way before that several skills would be more important, like shot blocking and passing. Training scheme's didn't change much. The new game engine was released and many managers were cursing the engine. That's not because the engine was bad, it was because they failed to change their training strategy two seasons before the engine was released. They blamed someone else, while the made a mistake by theirselves.

You are not getting it.

An increase of FA would, very likely, start to slow down the velocity at wich prices were rising. Do you agree or not? If you agree, it follows that having all the rest the same, deflation will eventually happen in closer time and in a faster way that if the increase in FAs did not ocurr.

I do adapt to changes. In fact, I adapt my plans for the until-a-few-days-scenario. Very likely, I will do it again.

My whole point is not about me changing plans. Is about the way BBs are behaving when it comes to manage the economy, more specifically, our expectations. Because, what they are NOT doing is to tell us what they are going to do(like they do with changes in the GE); my point is, we should know if they are thinking to make any moves in the market in order to consider that in our plans. In order to choose by ourself and not simply being obligated to wake up every three weeks with a new, unexpected, economic measure that thwarts your plan.

This is a more complex issue. It also have to do with what the designers want for their game.

Last edited by Zero, the Magi. at 11/7/2009 11:42:27 AM

deflation will eventually happen in closer time and in a faster way that if the increase in FAs did not ocurr

By this you seem to think deflation is inevitable with our without FA's. If so, why? I don't see any reason that prices were set to go down.

edit - got to love this post rating system, that this post managed to offend someone and draw a 1 rating is awesome

Last edited by brian at 11/7/2009 11:59:07 AM

deflation will eventually happen in closer time and in a faster way that if the increase in FAs did not ocurr

By this you seem to think deflation is inevitable with our without FA's. If so, why? I don't see any reason that prices were set to go down.

Because the rate at wich expenses are rising is higher than the rate at wich revenues are rising. That is why BBs had to increase the arena revenues at the beggining of the season... It has to do with the dinamic between salary increase and arena revenues increase (also TV contract and merchandising).

Last edited by Zero, the Magi. at 11/7/2009 11:45:15 AM

The return of retired players to the transfer list as Free Agents was announced in the News more than one month ago. So, I don´t think this is such a surprise.

Because the rate at wich expenses are rising is higher than the rate at wich revenues are rising.

For very highly skilled players salaries are increasing much faster then most. Those are a small portion of the supply of players in BB. Though it does seem they were increasing revenue's so that the top players would end up making sense for teams in top divisions.

That is why BBs had to increase the arena revenues at the beggining of the season...

They increased the earning capacity for stadiums with a capacity up to roughly 20k, but the goal of that was to stop the overbuilding of arenas which were creating a huge gap between established teams and newer ones. Maximum revenue for arena's was supposed to stay fairly static, though it appears to have increased some since last season.

TV money was increased last season but that, along with merchandise revenue, was also driven by the need to provide a more level playing field by taking into account the level of competition in your division and country.

I guess the BB's could have said that the influx of money from a few changes was set to go up, but isn't adapting to change part of what separates good managers from weaker ones?

Everyone was aware of the return of FA's from their news post. It became obvious early on that they weren't going to cause a dramatic change in prices, but you'd have to take into account the effect it might have on prices over some time. How hard is that to keep in mind?

Last edited by brian at 11/7/2009 11:50:35 AM