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275166.217 in reply to 275166.211
Date: 11/20/2015 11:30:23 AM
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Having 20 million in the bank is not good work. Especially if you are playing in a DIV III, where this money could buy you a roster to promote to DIV I.

Making steady profit might be good work, but at some point (hint!) you have to spend all that money, thats pretty easy to understand, innit?


Then, how would you qualify a team which has 20M on its bank account and which dominates, has trophies etc. ? Why would the manager buy new players to improve his team ?


You bring up a good point here. If you're already dominating, don't 'need' better players, and so save money for a rainy day, the luxury tax would still encourage you to spend money on something (or pay a penalty) to stay under $20MM. This would probably make your team even better, which sounds like it wouldn't be necessary if you're already dominating, but could be fun to dominate even more. Having a max of almost $20MM in the bank would still be a good sized nest egg.
(this, of course, assumes that $20MM is the limit, which we don't know yet)

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Date: 11/20/2015 4:34:33 PM
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There is another measure which might come in handy. Introduce a maintenance cost to the arena: lower a bit the cost of building seats, allow the possibility to reduce seats for a fee or for free. This will hit everyone of course, but mostly people who carry large arenas they cant fill in lower divisions. The amount of maintenance must be well thought so that people have a convenience to destroy seats they don't use.


I don't a maintenance cost is a good idea. Building up your arena is supposed to be a good strategy, but now your punishing teams with large arenas. I think a better idea would be to allow new teams to build up their arenas faster. Maybe give them 50% off all expansions done in their first 3 seasons.

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275166.220 in reply to 275166.218
Date: 11/21/2015 5:39:07 AM
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now your punishing teams with large arenas
Technically you'd be punishing more those who have seats they don't use which cost money and don't produce revenues. It's mostly managers who are in lower divisions and have 20k+ arenas. These people are most likely down there either because they are not active (no harm here) or because they are trying to build up cash against easier competition.

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275166.222 in reply to 275166.221
Date: 11/21/2015 2:36:04 PM
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I'm against this luxury tax thing. Someone's probably already said this, but it's just taking away another way of playing the game. I thought there were supposed to a lot of ways to play BuzzerBeater.

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275166.223 in reply to 275166.220
Date: 11/21/2015 4:19:35 PM
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These people are most likely down there either because they are not active (no harm here) or because they are trying to build up cash against easier competition.


You're assuming all these managers are of this type. What about managers who decided to build up there arena before improving their team, or former D1 teams who are down there because they are rebuilding and focusing on training younger guys. It is easier for these guys to train prospects in lower divisions because they can play their trainees at whatever position and still maintain winning records. This rule is hurting all these team and will probably end up driving managers away, especially those whose interest in the game is already low. If you're just trying to make money, you can do it much faster in higher divisions.

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275166.224 in reply to 275166.222
Date: 11/21/2015 5:10:54 PM
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I'm against this luxury tax thing. Someone's probably already said this, but it's just taking away another way of playing the game. I thought there were supposed to a lot of ways to play BuzzerBeater.


the luxury tax isn't taking anything away from playing the game, it takes some amount of money. no different than over-extension, or salary floor.

To the people crying and moaning about the luxury tax.

Do the Yankees or Red Sox cry and moan about the luxury tax they pay? No, because they still go out there, make their playoffs, win a few world series' (while paying luxury tax), and that's that.

Until you know what the tax is. It seems implied to me, that spending money to lower yourself Below the luxury tax level, will cost you more $ than just paying a luxury tax.

ALso, by the tax being there, does not by any means mean i cannot make 20-30-40-50-60 Million dollars still if I so choose. it just means I will have a tax paid. so instead of me making 1 mil every 8 weeks, maybe it takes 9 weeks to hit the 1 mil mark. HEAVENS FORBID



Last edited by EightPackKilla at 11/21/2015 5:11:16 PM

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275166.225 in reply to 275166.222
Date: 11/21/2015 5:51:31 PM
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Yes, it is taking away the silliest/cheapest way of stockpiling money- one that does not exist or happen in any real sports leagues now or in the future.

Isn't that great :D

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Date: 11/21/2015 6:33:10 PM
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This rule is hurting all these team and will probably end up driving managers away, especially those whose interest in the game is already low.
I might agree on this.

If you're just trying to make money, you can do it much faster in higher divisions.
That's not true. You can get more money by "tanking" in higher divisions than "tanking" in lower divisions, however you definitely make more money by tanking in D3 or D4 than you do by trying to make the playoffs in D1.

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