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Good to see you active again! Seems like others have covered a lot of stuff so I'll just speak to the viability of a non-LI team.

I've more or less run an outside team the entire time I've played BB and have put a lot of energy into determining the most salary efficient aspects of player builds. There are a few stats that I go out of my way to punt at different positions to keep costs down and that's resulted in a pretty decent, cheap team. I'm not entirely sure how viable this team is at the NBBA level as I've spent my first two seasons building up $$$ (a fraction of what you've amassed) with a cheap roster while I finish polishing off my trainees Glass and Rojas, but next season I'm firing my trainer, doing team training all year and will be looking to add another elite piece or two in hopes of winning a title so I guess then I'll know if the model actually has staying power.

I don't think there are too very many other high level USA teams trying this (hrudey is rebuilding and World Idea Toys went bot a couple seasons ago). It would be fun to see you give an outside-based offense a shot and at the very least it would allow me not to be all by myself at Three Point Shooters Anonymous meetings.

Has it been buffed to make it a bigger contribution to defense? Is SB on guards a big thing now? Love the JR change too. Outside-focused defensive PF anyone?

I'm not sure if I would say it's buffed, but more people are starting to see it's useful. SB on guards hasn't caught on yet. I'm with you on the outside/defensive PF.

Haha, sounds like a plan! I'm going to BBmail you about those stats! ;) I'm guessing one of them is Handling, perhaps another is RB, but I do love some Guard RB! Out of interest, do you think IS is important on your outside shooting guards (or any of your positions for that matter? My dominant LI team was all about the super-high IS/OD on my guards, well, that and a top-10 world SF.

Last edited by Calum at 06/28/2015 23:42:43

I like IS on my guards but only because the cost is basically free. Really everything is a matter of the cost per skill point which of course is different for every position. There are a few skills that would be nice to have but just aren't worth it because you could be spending that money more efficiently elsewhere. I don't want to go into full details in this thread but definitely message me regarding that and I'd like to pick your brain on some stuff as well!

Being someone who has ALWAYS squandered their payola I know about hunting down those values in the discount racks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes and there are still come ups out there, though some of them do smell like R-Kelly's sheets.



Question is. is there time to pull off a coup here and now??? If you think so, go for it, I personally have always gone the George Allen route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QI8s4XdLo and those are the cats you can get for a song this time of year.

Three games to overcome with six to go, if you can get there everyone above better start getting real nervous.




Last edited by Coach Lambini at 06/29/2015 11:40:54

Thats the budget I want to get to before advancing to nbba.

12) Players with higher stamina can play more minutes than players with low stamina and still have good GS

Interesting one. Do you have the evidence for this? I seem to have missed it...

It was announced by Marin. Whether you believe it was significant or not that's a different issue as we don't know how big this change was.

I have 2 players with 9 stamina and I can safely say that it's not advisable to go over 70 consistently even for this kind of guys. I think around 60 is your best bet for any stamina level (I only have 5 and above though), maybe around 68 for 8-9 stamina and 55 for 1-2 Stamina.

However we'd need to pool data and make a statistical analysis to be able draw robust conclusions.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 06/30/2015 16:47:27

So no longer the 48-76 minute deal...

That's odd, though, cause I've had players play a hell of a lot of minutes and turn out fine the next week. I guess that's the random factor.

I said consistently...play them a lot of minutes every week and see what your odds are of getting them to proficient :)

My guy (21226157) (9 stamina) this season alone:
7, 61>7, 52>7, 71>7, 72>8, 84>7, 70>8, 49>8, 72>8, 70>8, 65>9

I think he's the starter with fewer weeks at proficient I've ever purchased.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 06/30/2015 08:32:18

They've been on 8 and 9 most of the season. They're a bit shabby at the moment because I didn't realise that I would have two cup games in one week, so I had to play a lot of them extra minutes.