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Before yesterday i had never used a forum on anything in my whole life. i had to post a lot to defend myself (like im doing right now)

First lets make some assumptions.

1) You want to promote.

2) You want to train.

3) You want to make some money.

These seem to be contradictory aims but I think they they are not. Training helps you win and winning makes you money. So to me it all begins with training.

League IV.18

Last season you started half way through the season, no idea what you did but you lost a lot and havent expanded your arena at all. Disaster!

Crabby Men dominated last season but are promoted, GoatRiders also are in division III now.

R-Square 18-4 are around but look very weak.
Team CSC 19-3 also have a pathetic roster.
But relegated demon soul look very strong.

There are only 7 human teams in your league so you can act accordingly.

I may as well go through them all. This is just looking at their current roster, it is your job to do a more thorough scouting.

Big 8
Ulvie Stars 18 players 1 good. Easy
Flayling Fannypax 11 guys and something about them to me smells of competence. Danger?
Team CSC somehow went 19-3 with their top player being an old 8k guy.

Great 8
demon soul = danger! Been around since season 13 and have an incredible roster for a division IV team. $38,000 C, $19,000 SG, $19,000 SF etc. They will be very tough.
The BuzzerBeater Team (you) look pathetic but have lots of potential Aussie trainees.
R-square also look easy.
Beefys Pies have half their roster up for sale so you should note down their players in case some don't sell. Also read my bbmail on this issue but we cannot discuss this on the forums.

So it looks to me like you should be easily able to win 16-20 games with no effort at all. But if you want to have a good chance to promote you must go 20-2 (2 losses to Demon Soul) or to be certain to promote you need to beat Demon Soul.

More coming

Last edited by yodabig at 11/8/2011 4:37:21 AM

Your team.

11 players is reasonable but can be tight in the cup to keep good game shape.

Team Evaluation

Good players:
Gerald Ullman 12k SG 20 starter. Solid. The only solid player.

Potential Trainees:
Almost everyone. The good thing is if there are mess ups with training whoever gets minutes can use them.
Ed Brar 6k 19 allstar 6'0" SG
Sebastian Hijano 3k 19 MVP 6'1" SF
Graig Astle 5k 19 superstar 7'3" C
Whitney Rambuka 5k 20 superstar 6'7" SF

These guys are totally unsuitable as a training group. You spent $105,000 on Graig who I think you said was to be your focus and then later spent $150,000 on Ed whose only redeeming feature is his training potential. How will these two guys train together?

Next step is for you. Who is your focus? Name one player. But one of Ed and Graig must be sold.

It would also be useful to know hom much money you have so I can suggest some trainees for you.

First thing thank you so much for the help. I truly appreciate it and it's way more than I ever expected! :)
I would just like to explain some of those purchases;
- Rambuka is a created player that I was given
- Gerald Ulman I bought because I wanted someone decent who could score and get me started
- Next was Astle who I intended to be my focus. As he had good height and decent primary skills. However his secondaries and tertiaries are pretty atrocious
- Brar at first was just a player who could play well for me at pg and sg if I needed him to cover in that position. He is a better all round bball player than Astle by some bit.
Now I am not really sure who to focus on. I have got two players at 6ftand 6.1ft, rambuka who is nice all round player and then the big c?
At the moment I have 100k

One 7ft centre caught my eye but I'm not sure if he is a good move to make for my final 12th player. 25k with MVP potential, Aussie 19 year old. What do you think??

I think you're a young team and shouldn't blow all your startup money on players. There's an arena that hasn't been touched and needs to be upgraded too ;)

You can only effectively train a few players at once. So, you need to get some developed players, as well as some young guys. I'd sell off one of your trainees, and get a couple of older guys. If you go 30+, they get a lot cheaper - these are the sorts of guys you can buy that will win you up to Div III.

For me, there are two priorities for you right now.

1) Promote at all costs. The higher you go, the better the money - significantly better. The quicker you promote, the quicker your team gets good and your arena gets bigger.
2) Pick 2 guys to be your main trainees, and a couple of others as your backup trainees. Put everything into those main guys, always make sure they get 48 mins per week. There will always be issues with minutes which is why you don't have more than 2 main trainees (at least, if you're doing single position training - which is what I highly recommend).

Okay thanks guys. I hear what you's are saying and taking everything in. I'll try to achieve all the advise everyone is giving me.
Now I'm feeling better ;)

What Dire and Rabid have said is 100% correct. That is why I am suggesting choose either Cs or PGs to train then sell the others to raise some cash to start building your arena. This game is very much about money and your arena is the main source of it.

Where would I start to build up my arena? I was thinking with the $ I have atm I would perhaps invest in 500-1000 bleachers as they are cheapest and hopefully winning regularly in dv4 (with the exception of demon soul) it would be easier to sell more of them to fans...
Good idea or crap idea from the new kid?

I am still waiting to hear who is going to be your "star" trainee. But then you need to get three trainees organised, maybe another rotation player, staff and arena all as soon as possible, by tomorrow if possible.

Here is my look at things.

Ullman is a great SG keep him there.
You only have Graig Astle who is good to train as a C (the starter potential guys aren't worth it, really nothing less than allstar is). So I wouldn't train bigs, instead I would sell Graig Astle and buy a cheaper but better player.

Training PGs
Ed Brar 6'0" 6k 19 allstar
Sebastian Hijano 6'1" 3.5k 19 MVP and your draft pick. He was your first choice. You knew you had a 7'3" trainee but you drafted a 6'1" player so you really made your decision then.
You have at least three other guys on your team you can train as well (Whitney Rambuka is the least worst) or but I would suggest just spending a little and for abou $20-50,000 you should be able to get a 19 year old Aussie allstar or better potential trainee. If you are willing to spend $100,000 there is a great Aussie 19 year old for sale right now.