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Date: 3/19/2014 1:48:47 AM
Kira Kira Koseki
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Second Team:
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Well, despite the impossibility of creating an utopia, I have nonetheless put my name on the list now. Next step; coming up with a name that's just as funny as "You Should've Dunked!" :P

From: Mr J

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Date: 3/23/2014 2:31:32 AM
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Must admit I'm getting a little excited about the 2nd team. Really just eager to know when we'll get access to etc...?

Have many peeps decided on a strategy yet for their new team in its first season or is it the...'I'll wait and see my team first' thinking most are employing?

There seems to be two initial paths:

1. Tank, train and build; or
2. Buy cheap oldies and go for it!

Other options? Mixture between the two?


From: E.B.W.

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Date: 3/23/2014 2:36:24 AM
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I'm hoping for a nice trainee to start out with so I don't have to try to purchase one and then I will most likely try to promote up by buying 26-29 year olds that are cheap but efficient and work from there. The nice thing is, for the first however many seasons, you do not have to win your league, just be in the top part of your league and you will still promote. I plan to try to utilize that.Teams that go all out in the first few seasons will not be able to make it to the top league and stay there, people who tank and save money and train will take awhile to get to the top, so there is a fine line.

Murray/Harris/MPJ/Grant/Jokic - 2020 NBA Champs
From: Mr J

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Date: 3/23/2014 2:42:45 AM
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I'm hoping for a nice trainee to start out with so I don't have to try to purchase one and then I will most likely try to promote up by buying 26-29 year olds that are cheap but efficient and work from there. The nice thing is, for the first however many seasons, you do not have to win your league, just be in the top part of your league and you will still promote. I plan to try to utilize that.Teams that go all out in the first few seasons will not be able to make it to the top league and stay there, people who tank and save money and train will take awhile to get to the top, so there is a fine line.


Good logic, EBW.

Peeps will also have to consider:

* greater demand on trainers = higher prices
* greater demand on older, efficient players = higher prices
* importance of Utopian players = merch boost

And a lot more...

Either way, it's going to be a great experience and I think a healthy challenge for manages...

From: Nick22

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Date: 3/23/2014 3:03:21 PM
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I'll probably do something similar to EBW, looking for a PAS or so big man to train up as I go for promotion. In my dream world, everyonr would have guys under 10k for a season or two, maybe with restricted transfers or something, but obviously people will be pushing hard to promote so I'll have to invest more money than I'd like. I'm still going to focus more on building my team than promoting at first though.

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Date: 3/23/2014 4:50:55 PM
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I'm going to go about it just like I would if I restarted and ended up in an established IV league. I'll look for some budget trainees, and if I can find some Utopian players with good skills and cheap, which will never happen, maybe pick them up. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to let myself buy "foreign" players because there's really not going to be trained Utopian players yet, or if I'm going to just take the hit and wait and worry about promotion a few seasons later.

From: E.B.W.
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Date: 3/26/2014 12:15:54 AM
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What division do you think Utopia will be starting in? There are 64 division two spots (which has already been passed) and 256 third division spots open (which is probably about where we are at in accordance to who has bought the Utopia feature, if I had to guess), but I'm not sure how many people have signed up for Utopia and whether or not BB will just leave room open if more people were to join Utopia in the future. I would guess probably the 4th division, which has 1,024 spots open.

Murray/Harris/MPJ/Grant/Jokic - 2020 NBA Champs
From: redcped

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:34:20 AM
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What division do you think Utopia will be starting in? There are 64 division two spots (which has already been passed) and 256 third division spots open (which is probably about where we are at in accordance to who has bought the Utopia feature, if I had to guess), but I'm not sure how many people have signed up for Utopia and whether or not BB will just leave room open if more people were to join Utopia in the future. I would guess probably the 4th division, which has 1,024 spots open.


Maybe I misunderstood. It seems like the logical move would be to put all the teams in Division III. Presumably there would not actually be any DI or DII at all. Then there would be bot teams filling lower divisions so we can at least have a Cup that lasts a few weeks.

Would there be a reason to start all the owners in D-IV? Seems like we'd all be spread out and playing with mostly bots the first year, and there wouldn't be much point since we'd mostly promote and end up where we could have started out.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:35:58 AM
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The announcement said that all teams would start in Div. IV.

From: E.B.W.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:38:48 AM
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According to Alec we are starting in D.IV.

Murray/Harris/MPJ/Grant/Jokic - 2020 NBA Champs
From: redcped

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Date: 3/26/2014 11:54:31 AM
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So if you spread out 100-200 owners across 64 leagues, it seems like it won't be too hard for an active owner to promote at all.

In fact, we should virtually all promote the second season because there won't be enough active owners to fill a D-III even.

I suppose there might be a late flurry of signups and more coming later that will alter the equation. Or they could pack us all into leagues of active owners only and leave the rest of D-IV as all-bot leagues.

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