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I've come up with about 100 name choices now. Some funny, some not.

But on 2nd thought, that's exactly what the patriarchy wants. Instead by reusing our team names, we can help deconstruct the oppressive BB hegemony & oppose their institutional desires. And be decolonial & radical in the face of cis-gendered patriarchal gatekeepers like Hrudey. Others like SaulTNuts have seemingly noticed this, & join me in rejecting BB assimilationist practices as well as the hierarchical heteropatriarchal racial nationalism endemic in BB.

#cancelHrudey
#iStandWithShikago

Man, that got me fired up! That's exactly why I didn't change my team name for my Utopia team! Well, that and I was too lazy to update my Logo/Banner.

#TooLazyToUpdateBanner
#iStandWithShikago

Awesome! It's now trending on BB.
We have to unlearn imperialistic constructs like anti-laziness. To show solidarity I've also used the same type of slash in my 2nd team's name.

#iStandWithShikago
#SolidarityNotImperialism



Last edited by shikago at 4/2/2014 8:17:03 PM

Well done...I love the slash!

#SlashAntiLaziness
#Slash2ndTeamName
#iStandWithShikago

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Oh wow, those are great!

And for only 33% of my starting money... I can join your movement...

How many of you are actually trying to compete this season? I admire those that do. It just seems like, with the market inflation and lack of a salary floor, it makes sense to train a skeleton squad and expand your arena with the weekly profits.

Decided to go ahead and sign up.
No great trainees. A couple starter potential 18 year olds and 21 year old star/all-star guys. Will still train them if i ever buy a trainer. For now it's stamina and free throws.

For overall strategy, not really worried about being great. When they first announced this as a second team in another country I was planning on having a team in Senegal, so I'm thinking I might do sort of a themed team and only buy players from Senegal or just from Africa. Then have a team of Africans + home grown draft picks.
Just something silly to play with.

I'm going to buy players that aren't overpriced and see how well I do. Does that count as competing?
I have to admit that you're right, skeleton tanking sounds like a great plan. But I just finished doing that on my real team

I need someone with more time than me to verify where a team would need to finish to promote in Utopia. So there will be 16 D3 Leagues with 16 teams each (there would be 16 D3's, right?) for 256 teams. 79 D4 Leagues that will each have one autoqualifier for the winner. That leaves 177 other teams to promote. So roughly another 2.25 teams per league. I'm guessing it will be done like bot cleanup and the best records would promote.

Would it be more profitable to promote and go skeleton crew in D3?

Quite possibly. Also factor in that everyone is going to start with 0 draft points, so if you save them up at 2 per week, you'll have 54 to spend on that draft.

If you do just enough to promote, you will most likely have a mediocre D 3 roster anyway (by USA standards) because very few teams will have enough money to invest in an actual D 3 quality roster. And, those that have quality players are most likely older players and will drop skills quickly.

I think the best way to go is to try and hold your own until just before the allstar break and then look for bargains on the TL and try to do enough to promote. From there, it may or may not make sense to tank D 3 or to try and push ahead to D 2.

I personally look for economic advantages before I run for a title. So here are my thoughts on prospects:

1) Win title in Div 4. Those that do will carry the best economic advantage into Div 3. Three reasons: 1) extra playoff games. 2) better ticket sales in Div III. 3) Further advance in Cup. Essentially this format is a race to the top.
2) Advance via bot. Economically viable because this season has abnormally high amount TV contract. If I would have known this I would have attempted for #1. But as such I already went for a tanker setup.
3) (My strategy) Tank in Div 4. Build arena and hopefully land a good prospect with the first pick in the draft. Add to roster after season is over and attempt to go 22-0 the next season. Two position train and sell off some prospects for cash.
4) Miss the bot promotion, but make playoffs with a cheap roster earning enough cash to win a title next season.
5) Spend too much on roster additions, miss bot promotion, not get a good draft pick, etc. Which will be a majority of the teams IMO.