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197341.5 in reply to 197341.4
Date: 9/29/2011 8:56:14 AM
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That was actually kind of what I was planning down the road... Replacing most of my current players with American versions that fit my new vision. Only non American staying around was George's training buddy:)

The German, I'm guessing?

I was leaning towards some sort of outside oriented team... Balance defenders at all positions with outside oriented scoring.

I hope I'm not taking you the wrong way here, but I hate it when people say that they're trying to build an outside-oriented team, or a LI team, or whatever. What you should be focused on over the long haul is building a team of guys who can all score from pretty much anywhere, and can defend pretty much anyone. If your opponents know what's coming, they can and will beat you.

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197341.6 in reply to 197341.5
Date: 9/29/2011 4:04:11 PM
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I agree with you....If you are 1 sided it is very easy to get beat. You have to be able to have a team that can play multiple tactics that way you are unpredictable. Being predicatble is the worst thing a team can become.

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197341.7 in reply to 197341.5
Date: 9/29/2011 10:05:05 PM
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Yes the German. And good point, will try to keep it in mind in all my purchases. Made my first purchase towards the new team today:)

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Date: 9/30/2011 6:53:12 AM
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I agree with you....If you are 1 sided it is very easy to get beat. You have to be able to have a team that can play multiple tactics that way you are unpredictable. Being predicatble is the worst thing a team can become.

A really good example of this is USA Elite (23172). He has an utterly phenomenal team for the salary, but everyone and their mother knows what type of offense he's running, and most have been successful at stopping it. The fact that the whole league never has to guess if he'll whip out a R&G or something makes his club much easier to plan for.

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197341.9 in reply to 197341.8
Date: 9/30/2011 10:03:44 AM
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I've had a fair amount of success with a 1 dimensional offense ...

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197341.10 in reply to 197341.9
Date: 9/30/2011 5:54:26 PM
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I've had a fair amount of success with a 1 dimensional offense ...

You've also occasionally whipped out PTB and LI to some success, including the latter in your last B3 game (though unsuccessfully).

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197341.11 in reply to 197341.10
Date: 9/30/2011 7:10:17 PM
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That's a good point, but I do think there's good reason to design a team with a particular tactic in mind. Imagine how USA Elite would fare with the same model but an extra 200k in salary upgrades.

From: darykjozef

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197341.12 in reply to 197341.11
Date: 10/1/2011 7:29:26 AM
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That's a good point, but I do think there's good reason to design a team with a particular tactic in mind. Imagine how USA Elite would fare with the same model but an extra 200k in salary upgrades.

Also a good point. As for the team build, the only problem I have with a one-dimensional team is that a single modification to the match engine can destroy your entire team, rather than just nerfing a single element of it.

For instance, what if the BBs decided to reduce the effect of OD and increase the effect of ID?

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197341.13 in reply to 197341.1
Date: 10/1/2011 11:24:21 AM
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I have recently gone through somewhat the same exercise althouhg I am not in a full re-build because I want to hang around D.III. You definitely need to set some goals for your new team. If you want to make it to D.II then you need a minimum potential of all-star for a passable starter at the D.II level (probably an exception here or there). Use your experience from past seasons to determine if you need to re-balance your training. I had a solid defensive team (on of the better ones in my league before I started re-building) but had trouble scoring, especially from the perimeter, so I am trying to focus a bit more on offensive skills in training now. I am also trying for more balanced players that aren't confined to single positions. So I am moving away from bigmen with poor OD that will only be able to play C. Or guards with poor JS/JR that can only play PG.

I am not following the US born route. I find it confines me too much and I have never drafted a player I thought it was worth training

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197341.14 in reply to 197341.12
Date: 10/1/2011 12:19:10 PM
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I sure hope that doesn't happen any time soon, I'd need to do some major restructuring. But I don't foresee any major changes to tactics in the near future, so if a team is training bigs, buying guards with OD/PA/DR/IS that may be lacking in JS/JR will often be a good decision.

Last edited by SM at 10/1/2011 12:20:33 PM