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I like number 1 and number 3. Tax profits (heavily in the first few weeks) and introduce team chemistry (but not randomly like in HT, not sure how it works here for NT).

Further suggestions:
- Tax the starting price (even only 1%, with 1k minimum). So manager are less willing to place the same player on the market over and over again at ridiculous prices.

- I am really concerned about skill trading. It can become in BB much more severe than it is in HT. I would not consider minutes played in the previous team for training, except for game shape.

Last edited by Newton07 at 3/11/2008 5:01:25 AM

But with that in mind, let me throw a few possibilities out there, and I'm curious how you'd rank these. Not all of these are particularly good ideas, but it's more just to stimulate discussion. These aren't in any particular order.

i like 2 and 3

2 leaves room for a moderate trading (which is perfectely acceptable)
3 helps the equilibrium between users who rotate training to train the entire team and those who train 1 role and trade and buy better players in the non-trained roles

1 & 3 are very good ideas!

...and team chemistry shouldn't be resetted at the end of the season...

I haven't read every single post, but I haven't seen this mentioned, so I will:

why not a roster limit of 15? The first two weeks of a season this would be 18 to give teams time to incorporate their three draft picks into their plans.

If you can't play with 15, even with three injured players, you don't know what you are doing.

you can try to train more players what about teamtraining stamina freethrows, also 15 with 3 injuries doesnt work well you probably get gameshape problems...
and if you unable to sell your drafts within the first two weeks you fire them?
doesnt sound good to me...

you can try to train more players what about teamtraining stamina freethrows, also 15 with 3 injuries doesnt work well you probably get gameshape problems...
and if you unable to sell your drafts within the first two weeks you fire them?
doesnt sound good to me...

No news there. I didn't think it would sound good to you and your ilk. That's why it is a promising idea!

Other than that, I don't see why the developers should influence influence market prices of players, or how this relates to actual NBA salary cap regulations: trades do not (and unfortunately cannot) exist in this game, and transfers do not exist in the NBA.

Ah...just as earlier you said I misquoted you, you now misquote me. I never said that those specific regulations would apply, in fact I specifically mentioned the fact that they don't.

I was merely pointing out the fact that regulations to the market are the norm not the exception, not that those exact regulations were applicable. (Which I also stated in the last post)

Look at european sports instead if you prefer to use a model closer to BB. They have regulations in place as well. I only used the NBA as the first example of a regulated sports market that came into my head.

Your mention of the BB 'soft salary cap' actually makes my point for me. All the things you mentioned are designed to do exactly what you say they do. Day trading makes them moot. A players earns his way to a top division where the income supports a better roster, and he can be outdone, by a division 4 player with a few extra hours per week, financially because of day trading.

I think the difference between us is that you think this is a good thing while I don't, because once again we arrive at the problem of day trading becoming the only meaningful strategy if you want to contend long term.

because once again we arrive at the problem of day trading becoming the only meaningful strategy if you want to contend long term.

That's just simply not the case.