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Imo the minute management needs to be abandoned completely - best lineup should play every game - period.

It's not like you would see players switch between starting - being benched and not playing a third game at all in real world on a regular basis.

That would make the game much more easier and appeal to the casual gamers we try to attract and retain.

well, if you can't manage your minutes then then either you are weak manager or most likely your subs suck. Why do they suck is not mine, Perpete, Marin or community's problem and we are not those who care or have to solve it.

As always very professionally and elegantly put, GM-Nik0. You have just won yourself a new Pillory thread which I had decided to put on hold, so that your brilliance and politeness can shine brighter than ever.

Now, if you would be so kind, please check the GS for the following 3 teams and let's have a constructive discussion about who sucks more at GS management please:
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/91040/players.aspx
(91040) despite buying a scrub on mediocre GS just last night...
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/276019/players.aspx
(276019) despite buying a guy on inept GS just last night...
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/44959/players.aspx
(44959)

Are we really supposed to take seriously someone with 3 players on Average GS and 4 on Respectable GS going into the 4th week of the season? I would also be interested in knowing your thoughts on tanking managers patronizing and insisting in educating others on the forums, thank you.

Why is the whole drama?

The drama is because there are users on forums who either can't understand or can't express concepts in an intelligent, honest or civilised way in proper English, GM-Nik0.

Other than that, there is no drama. There is a ligitimate concern that this game had only one situation where the coach was doing substitutions efficiently and they removed it to fix a different issue. If they had taken away blanks and left the substitution pattern in another form nobody would care. Really. Nobody. However this affects:
a) How money is redistributed for managers who have NT and U21 players
b) We now have one less substitution pattern compared to before and one less way to manage minutes
You, as Perpete or Marin, can keep feigning ignorance. I'm not the one who raised this issue, if you had read this thread or the other, like we would expect from any GM, you would know that other managers brought this to everyone's attention before blanks removal was tackled. You can check my game logs and you will see I have used blanks a handful of times in the last 250 games I've played, so you are hopefully able to figure out on your own how much I'm missing blanks.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 2/13/2015 9:37:08 AM

In basketball many teams do not chase offensive rebounds, either situationally or in general if they can score efficiently on single shots. there are different camps of thought, but in BB I think we can definitely find room for giving up on offensive boards, even if its not a fullcourt game and you get no really defensive benefit from it like in real ball..

Crashing the boards and giving up more fast break points or giving up OR, but going back on defense faster would be a really nice addition to the tactic page (it would mean a trade-off between OR and better defense), but seeing how wacky OR are in the GE this is completely unrealistic.

IMO defensive assignments should not be based on opponent offensive settings. They should be based on skill match-ups and controlled by the defensive and adjusted every possession to fit ideally the skills of the defenders, as in real ball.

This would be ideal. Anyone knows what happened in the past when leaving defensive assignment blank?

And sorry about your mediocre scouting skills.

Yeah, you should thank Captainteemo! Anyways, math is really really simple. My main team is 7.9 average (and I bought a guy yesterday on 5 and I have an injured player at 5), my second team is 8.2 average (and I bought a guy yesterday who was on 4), your tankatatron team is 7.4 and you haven't bought a player for months nor you have any injured players. How comfortable are you with integers and decimals?

it is one of the first thing you ever learn in BB (I think)

Of course, but some people who are still close to Respectable in their 4th week perhaps need to take extra lessons.

Once again - if after 2 years here you don't know how to manage your forms, that's not my problem neither it's Marin's fault.

If you haven't understood what I wrote, then I can repeat it as many times as it takes. Several people mentioned subs patterns being inefficient, unrealistic and bad. The only sub patterns which were anywhere near efficient and realistic were the ones you got when playing blanks. So this was actually already in the GE, but now it has been removed together with blanks and we got nothing in return, exactly as many claimed it would happen in this very thread and the previous one. If you can't comprehend this simple concept, I can try in French, Italian or German, perhaps that would work better. As I've already shown you, perhaps you should refrain talking about GS with barely acceptable GS on your own team to show for, especially to someone who has been using coach pick from depth chart for the near totality of my bb life.

Now if you do have something to say about NT/U21 merchandise balance or about how tanking ruins this game for many (see other people's comments in this thread and elsewhere), please go ahead, always happy to hear reasoned opinions.

Last edited by GM-Perpete at 2/13/2015 4:58:52 PM

Thank you Perpete this is great news from Marin. It took me quite a long time to find the actual thread, so I will link it here for everyone's benefit: (267318.1)

Perhaps you should have a chat with some of your guys and try to understand when regular users disagree with you on your opinion of them (see Foto or whatever the name was).

That's true, but I mentioned him because his name emerged repeatedly in the past and I didn't want to name any current GMs who have similar bad reputation, since this would have started a flame war.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 2/14/2015 6:36:44 AM