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Oh ok thanks for the info

I'll put you to win it all, let's see if my new voodoo doll works

A new victim?

@ TheRainmakers: i did not pay attention that only Supporter could create a topic with poll, I will try to do it next season.

now, looking to the red side, i have the feeling there are less diffrence between teams this season and the ticket for PO a long journey but stil my objective

Buzzer-manager is live again ;)

I have a question for you guys, what do you think about the new engine changes? Will they finally end the LI dominance?

I didn't even know about the changes. Could you please link me a thread where they talk about it ?
Are they already live ?


Thanks a lot

I do hope the changes can bring some more efficiency to outside tactics, which hare really hard to set up in my opinion. Just take a look at Switzerland's starting SG, who's currently for sale. He's 20 JS and 17 JR, which is amazing, and he shot a poor 27% from long distance over the last season. What does it take to cross the 30% line ? A 20-20 player, which is extremely rare ?

It is in the news from the season announcement:

"The new game engine upgrade was not tested last season like it was announced, but that will be done this season, starting this Thursday. Note that the new engine might be tuned during the season and the effects might vary."

There is not really a forum because no one tested it or no one knows what it will look like. They will test in PL games normally.

The beauty of Buzzerbeater is that a well built player is always stronger than someone like that guard, his IS (9) is just too weak, his PA even if it is 13 might also be too weak (If i remember correctly Joe gives his go to players +16 in PA!!!). Because he has high JR he will jack up 3's like crazy even if it is a bad shot, he shot 77 shots from 3 last season no one of my players shot +70 shots from 3.
The other thing is OD is a bit overpowered you just put a Guard with OD 18 on him and he will struggle, he may drive to basket but cant make the shot because of his weak IS,

I just saw the whole team is up for sale and have a look at his french player, he has JS 19 and JR 18, that guy shot 54,8% from the field and 45,6% from 3. There you have your build :P. Meanwhile he has lower PA 11 than the swiss guy but higher IS 13, this kind of contradicts what I said about PA but reinforces what I said about the IS, you need IS if he drives.

I dont't know if you know Nachtmahr, but he did a lot of test, I promised to translate all his tests but didnt go through with it (sorry Angie :P). But what he found out f.ex. is that a good shot depends on 2 skills and not just one. He said f.ex. that a guy with JS10 and JR15 shoots worse from 3 than a guy that has JS/JR 13/12, the closer both skills are the better they shoot.

The post about Nachtmahr is somehwere on the belgium NT forum.

last year, my PG and SG had better performance in PL then II.1 but PL was not really strong. This year it starts the same way but with stronger opposant...i am going to follow-up

Day 1 (Saturday 12 September 2020) : Performances by https://www.buzzer-manager.com

Night results
LV Clips 102 - Aubel Nation 87
De Scheetebeezekes 98 - BC Benfica 78
The Golden Era 119 - THOMAS COOK 101
Estrellas Absurdas 94 - Beerschot AC 69
TheAmbassadors 118 - ccf packers 111
rode duivels 92 - BouffAssist 111
armstrongs 91 - Collège Saint-Louis Basket 112
TheRainmakers 111 - Kriflonius 120

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 120 : Kriflonius
Rebounds : 55 : BouffAssist
Assists : 35 : Collège Saint-Louis Basket
Steals : 14 : THOMAS COOK
Block Shots : 6 : BouffAssist, Estrellas Absurdas

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 43 : K. O'Kelly (BC Benfica), A. Flores (Kriflonius)
Rebounds : 24 : J. Siepert (TheAmbassadors)
Assists : 10 : E. Arhan (TheAmbassadors), S. Temmerman (The Golden Era)
Steals : 4 : I. Shareef (THOMAS COOK)
Block Shots : 3 : O. Goncharuk (TheAmbassadors), S. Maye (The Golden Era)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : M. Seminck (Kriflonius) (17 Points, 9 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Shooting Guard : P. Pries (Collège Saint-Louis Basket) (29 Points, 8 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 32
Small Forward : A. Flores (Kriflonius) (43 Points, 3 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Power Forward : J. Siepert (TheAmbassadors) (34 Points, 24 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49
Center : R. Roos (TheRainmakers) (25 Points, 11 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33

MVP of the evening
J. Siepert (TheAmbassadors) (34 Points, 24 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49

The bad performance of the evening
G. Schuil (armstrongs) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)R. Carnoy (rode duivels) (2 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -4

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : I. Shareef (THOMAS COOK) : 8 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : V. Meerschaert (rode duivels), M. Rizo (ccf packers), J. Dejonghe (TheRainmakers), K. Van der Aerschot (LV Clips), M. Bulteel (Aubel Nation), D. Vanbrusselen (The Golden Era) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : M. Seminck (Kriflonius), R. Roos (TheRainmakers) : 53 Minutes

The shooter : E. Misiunas (ccf packers), L. Dzhulai (De Scheetebeezekes) : 4 Three points

The best performer : K. Otçu (TheRainmakers) : Rating : 15.5

The worst performer : R. Schreiner (Estrellas Absurdas) : Rating : 4.5

Day 2 (Tuesday 15 September 2020) : Performances by https://www.buzzer-manager.com

Night results
Aubel Nation 126 - De Scheetebeezekes 113
BC Benfica 112 - The Golden Era 106
THOMAS COOK 77 - Estrellas Absurdas 100
Beerschot AC 74 - LV Clips 124
ccf packers 85 - rode duivels 70
BouffAssist 110 - armstrongs 94
Collège Saint-Louis Basket 78 - TheRainmakers 90
Kriflonius 92 - TheAmbassadors 113

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 126 : Aubel Nation
Rebounds : 59 : Estrellas Absurdas
Assists : 33 : The Golden Era
Steals : 12 : THOMAS COOK, LV Clips
Block Shots : 9 : De Scheetebeezekes

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 51 : K. O'Kelly (BC Benfica)
Rebounds : 22 : T. Nasir (TheAmbassadors)
Assists : 13 : K. Lambinet (LV Clips)
Steals : 5 : N. Daerden (The Golden Era)
Block Shots : 5 : V. Zdanaitis (BC Benfica), T. Mpakoyiannopoulos (THOMAS COOK)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : P. Cerato (De Scheetebeezekes) (25 Points, 11 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 25
Shooting Guard : K. Lambinet (LV Clips) (29 Points, 6 Rebounds, 13 Assists, 2 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47
Small Forward : K. O'Kelly (BC Benfica) (51 Points, 9 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Power Forward : J. Siepert (TheAmbassadors) (26 Points, 21 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Center : J. Hoornik (The Golden Era) (28 Points, 14 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 1 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49

MVP of the evening
J. Hoornik (The Golden Era) (28 Points, 14 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 1 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49

The bad performance of the evening
T. Hofman (TheAmbassadors) (0 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)S. Tumadiang (THOMAS COOK) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -2

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : B. Buck (De Scheetebeezekes) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : R. Roos (TheRainmakers), S. Laffineur (LV Clips), K. Aalten (De Scheetebeezekes), A. Gaudin (Aubel Nation) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : L. Dzhulai (De Scheetebeezekes), P. Cerato (De Scheetebeezekes), L. Masoliver (De Scheetebeezekes), B. Buck (De Scheetebeezekes) : 53 Minutes

The shooter : L. Dzhulai (De Scheetebeezekes) : 5 Three points

The best performer : K. Wouters (Estrellas Absurdas) : Rating : 16.5

The worst performer : T. Hofman (TheAmbassadors) : Rating : 4.0

As promised here comes the economic breakdown :)

Variation of the TV contract:
Season 49: 123,000 / Season 50: 132,666 (+7,8%) / Season 134,377 (+1,29%)

This is the first hint that the league is still strong meanwhile we don't have such a big jump as from Season 49 to Season 50, the TV contract augmented.

The average salary at the start of the season is 351 556 (according to BB) (Δ +8,05%) / 335,299$ according to a calculator (Δ +7,14%). The median salary is 357,838$. The players salary floor is 251 284$ (Δ +1,29%). I guess the difference between BB and the calculator is because BB applies the salary floor while calculating the average salary while I took the true salary.

The highest salary comes from Collège Saint-Louis Basket (484,346$) (Δ -6,31% compared to shoes last season), followed by TheRainmakers (455,974$) and LV Clips finishes the podium with 446,970$.

The 3 bottom salaries come from promoted teams, their salaries are way below the salary floor so I guess we will see change there in the future. BC Benfica (169,338$) / rode duivels (148,679$) / Beerschot AC (126,679$) are our 3 bottom salary teams.

I would like to add that last season i did the post after the 1st economy update and some managers decided to change their roster after it so I did it this time for the 2nd economy update.

Last edited by BigT at 09/21/2020 04:33:25

The preview will be a little different this season. In order to avoid jinxing teams, I will just rank them by salary. I know it’s less interesting, but this preview has an effect on some teams (:
There seems to have been less ‘late’ transfers than last season, so waiting for the preview wasn’t really necessary.
Also, this preview will span over three posts, since I wrote too much ...

Blue Side
IN: Estrellas Absurdas (BBBL), THOMAS COOK (III.1), BC Benfica (III.4), Beerschot AC (III.11), De Scheetebeezekes (III.16)
OUT: Shoes (BBBL), Omaha BC (III.1), Knokido (III.4), LOST4 (III.7), Houdeng Donkeys (III.15)

1. LV Clips: 447k [+31k]
You know it’s serious when Bull2213 buys a player. León Echacán is the first non-drafted player in LV Clips that has been on the court. With his older generation player reaching retirement, I assume this is the last real chance at a championship without extra transfers, so it makes sense to create to best opportunities to succeed.
With Lambinet and Landsbergen reaching their final forms, a more than decent schedule vs red side and a salary difference of 70k with the next team on the blue side, not reaching the division final would be a disappointment.

2. Estrellas Absurdas: 378k [NEW]
Having AnGi77 in the division pleases me for 2 reasons: 1) an OG BuzzerBeater user joins our ranks and 2) she has given R. Malou a home for the past seasons. The aim now seems to be training youngsters for the GGP, something she was already doing in his Utopian team (and previously Gulpen for the NT).
For this reason, it appears the aim is to avoid relegation as well as promotion. Will the BBBL rubber band snap after 3 short stints? If I was a betting man, I’d bet on Estrellas Absurdas trying to go for a run in the cup.

3. The Golden Era: 355k [+69k]
The biggest salary increase on the blue side is laid away for Warriorground. A big part of it comes from a transfer after the preview of the last season, but the rest is due to training of, again, a GGP player. Leigh will be a beast of a player in ANY league.
With the average age of the starters, all the building blocks are there for multiple opportunities to get a first taste of BBBL in one of the coming seasons, and with a schedule similar to that of LV Clips, The Golden Era is a great dark horse pick. However, starting 2-3 doesn't help and wasn’t expected.

4. Aubel Nation: 320k [+42k]
Veoz has already made the intentions for the team clear in this forum. Top 4 to avoid relegation games. While it definitely is possible, some new teams are happy to take that spot away. But winning against the two strongest competitors for POs, the tone has already been set. And with a win over TGE, who started the season poorly, a third place is not out of the woods just yet.



Last edited by Krifl at 09/29/2020 10:10:11