they have played as many playoff games as you im willing to bet ...
either way they are young and will continue to develop however that isnt what i was saying i was saying you dont need a lot of money to win in this game
and that my friend is FACT!
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they have played as many playoff games as you im willing to bet ...
either way they are young and will continue to develop however that isnt what i was saying i was saying you dont need a lot of money to win in this game
and that my friend is FACT!
finances in basketball really arnt all that ... i run a micro economy just fine ...
A team throwing 3-4 play-off race games has far more impact then a team that sucked all season long.
Kinda had a feeling this would lead to the lottery again.
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The 15 win thing wouldnt be fair You get a bad hand or a few injuries and its hard to win at times. I think we have a pretty good system in place With the telling someone if there player sits on th dl to long and i hope someone sure as heck tells me because i tend to forget stuff alot No telling how many players i lost that i wanted to keep because I left the on the dl in football and forgot about them.
The only way to tell if someone is really Tanking is if they bench there stars and keep them benched for awhile.
<font size="3" face="Sylfaen, Verdana, Helvetica">From what I've found, tanking doesn't hurt finances that badly -- not compared to what you can get for it, and especially not like it would in real life!Quote:
Originally posted by King Z-ster:
I just can't lose on purpose, one, for pride's sake, two, for finances. The worse your winning percentage, the less you can charge for tickets, the less money you make, the less you can advertise, the less you money you make, the less you can train, the less you can offer in bonuses, the worse your team does, the worse your winning percentage................
I tanked for the first season in L36. It was somewhat of a setback to be sure, but I now have the largest stadium and I've had enough cash to buy players and pay bonuses. I'm also fame rank 4.
In L31, I know my team isn't going to win the championship this year. I could have tanked the whole season and not had it hurt my finances much at all. I started the season with a top 5 fame rank, the second largest stadium in the league, and plenty of contracts. Tanking would have cost me what, $20-$30 million? Very little for my team. I certainly can't buy a #1 draft pick for that much.
I agree that tanking is a good strategy. My gut feeling is that it shouldn't be, and since we can't get Scott to change the game, we either have to do something in this "gentlemen's league" or just accept that people are going to shoot for the bottom. Sadly, once one person does it, everyone else with weak teams has to do it too or else they'll lose their "proper" position in the draft.
I'm not saying that this is the only reason for having a lottery, but I do think that a lottery will help avoid a race to the bottom. Sure some teams my throw a game or two at the end of the season to improve their odds, but to me that's a lesser problem than people making the strategic decision to suck for a whole season (or several seasons.)
I suppose if I really had my choice we'd go to an even probability lottery and include all the teams from the worst to the league champs. Then there'd be no incentive to throw a game ever. Another alternative would be to require at least 15 wins per season. If your team can't meet that threshold then you're booted from the league, someone buys out the rest of your seasons, your players are released, and we hold some sort of expansion draft to create them a new team.
<font size="3" face="Sylfaen, Verdana, Helvetica">Hey, no fair! I mentioned the lottery in a post about several different things one could do about tanking.Quote:
Originally posted by GrendelKhan:
A team throwing 3-4 play-off race games has far more impact then a team that sucked all season long.
Kinda had a feeling this would lead to the lottery again.
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To address your point though, anyone throwing games at anytime distorts the "true" outcome of the league. If 3 teams in my division decide to throw games when they're mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, how is that any different from one guy in your division tanking the whole season? And that doesn't even consider the perfectly rational benching of starters that a playoff team will do when they've got their seed locked up.
There are going to be games thrown in the league no matter what kind of rules we implement. I'd much rather see guys just drop the last couple of games rather than have someone gun for the top draft pick from day 1.