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From: Yuck

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Date: 6/26/2014 5:27:44 PM
Cassville Yuck
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You are easily the most interesting fella on this site. Sure to be on an FBI watch list as well.

From: shikago

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Date: 6/26/2014 6:21:14 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
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this FBI?


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Date: 6/26/2014 9:58:47 PM
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Something's wrong with BB when I get a really nice balanced PF/C for only $4k, but I'm forced to pay 10x as much for a useless old guy. (thanks day traders)

But Armand Carod can potentially be the worst player in BB history. Once his ID drops 2 levels & his FT drops 1 level... he's all atrocious.


You used to be such a stickler for doing things the right way, but now you're all about exploiting the whole age/skill drop phenomenon. At least Bloody Eagles had the conviction to keep on doing things the way they did things.

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Date: 6/27/2014 10:37:21 AM
Milwaukee Lethargy
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There's a handful of Lethargy knockoff teams suddenly springing up. I'm not sure why. It's the BB equivalent of something like this, only not as close:
(http://www.buzzfeed.com/hgrant/23-hilariously-bad-knockof...)

Or a Ronex watch, etc...

(I found the "Robert Cop 3" really funny for some reason)



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Date: 6/27/2014 10:46:52 AM
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Something's wrong with BB when I get a really nice balanced PF/C for only $4k, but I'm forced to pay 10x as much for a useless old guy. (thanks day traders)


If he was American I wouldn't mind buying a guy for that cheap even if he was 36. He has been transferred 15 times in the seven seasons so one thing is true, he still has market value, even it resembles the dollar value of $0.

But I'm not going to screw up my merchandise income to scrounge around for cheap vets.

The implementation of Utopia has changed people's perspectives on oldies. It should be obvious that the market value for old players is simply too low most of the time in comparison to young players.

The one thing that makes old players better than young players is having cash wrapped up in the buy price. This is because that money could be used elsewhere especially for teams with a growing arena. Once the arena is finished than it makes more sense to start buying younger players when the market price makes sense.

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(http://www.buzzfeed.com/hgrant/23-hilariously-bad-knockof...)

I feel like a few of those are actual things that were lost in translation to Asia or something.

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Date: 6/27/2014 6:43:32 PM
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The implementation of Utopia has changed people's perspectives on oldies. It should be obvious that the market value for old players is simply too low most of the time in comparison to young players.


what if we had a draft option to draft our grandfathers, ex-presidents, or members of the Chinese politburo instead of another faceless, talentless 19 year old?

has there been any discussion of changing the GE so that these increasingly decrepit players may eventually awaken to eternal life, check into the Motel Deep 6, ring down the curtain and join the choir invisible, or otherwise experience the fate from which there is no escape?

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Date: 6/27/2014 8:32:49 PM
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I'd draft my grandpa. He could build me a really good arena...he'd be layin' bricks not throwin' them.

From: Yuck

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Date: 6/28/2014 1:13:18 PM
Cassville Yuck
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Law - just read the thread Small Forward - the quest for the perfect player. One of the better threads in a long time. You really managed that thread and got some great intel within but the true genius was mixing in the comic relief of Glass. That and my French pressed coffee have totally made my morning. You're a stud.

From: lawrenman

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Date: 6/28/2014 3:21:38 PM
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Law - just read the thread Small Forward - the quest for the perfect player. One of the better threads in a long time. You really managed that thread and got some great intel within but the true genius was mixing in the comic relief of Glass. That and my French pressed coffee have totally made my morning. You're a stud.



Thanks for the compliment! Glass just loves to throw his two cents in...so much speed training.

I was looking to validate my reasoning, but anyway it seems like a good study. I mean look at Silverbacks has just sold Ferruccio Trevelin for $ 4 000 000.

These guys are highly valuable. The problem is you have to wrap up a ton of cash in them. Either through internally training them or buying them trained.

Heck, Silverbacks had to sit on 4M cash for three seasons while training the guy. Not exactly ideal IMO. Not terrible but I guess when you have the cash and nothing else to spend on...which I believe is important to think about going forward. There are a lot more rich teams then there were each season. I just believe most teams after building their stadium will generate cash most of the time. Therefore we will probably see inflation the next few seasons.

But anyway everyone I have bid on lately I have run into someone else that wanted them equally as much--especially in the PF/SF realm. I might just have to go all "Lethargic" and buy some cheap assets. We'll see.


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Date: 6/28/2014 4:45:53 PM
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Law - just read the thread Small Forward - the quest for the perfect player. One of the better threads in a long time. You really managed that thread and got some great intel within but the true genius was mixing in the comic relief of Glass. That and my French pressed coffee have totally made my morning. You're a stud.



Thanks for the compliment! Glass just loves to throw his two cents in...so much speed training.

I was looking to validate my reasoning, but anyway it seems like a good study. I mean look at Silverbacks has just sold Ferruccio Trevelin for $ 4 000 000.

These guys are highly valuable. The problem is you have to wrap up a ton of cash in them. Either through internally training them or buying them trained.

Heck, Silverbacks had to sit on 4M cash for three seasons while training the guy. Not exactly ideal IMO. Not terrible but I guess when you have the cash and nothing else to spend on...which I believe is important to think about going forward. There are a lot more rich teams then there were each season. I just believe most teams after building their stadium will generate cash most of the time. Therefore we will probably see inflation the next few seasons.

But anyway everyone I have bid on lately I have run into someone else that wanted them equally as much--especially in the PF/SF realm. I might just have to go all "Lethargic" and buy some cheap assets. We'll see.


It was a fun thread. I have tried to cut back on engaging with Mr. Glass because he patently refuses to learn from anyone's advice and he's such a special kind of wrong that it is painful to watch at times.

I kind of think that the way to go is to build the players that are unique and expensive and then try to treat the other positions as ones where you can go out and buy guys that are more common builds. I still haven't really ever trained a really good SF, though, and it might not be feasible to do so at this point, but I suppose maybe that's my goal for the next few seasons.

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