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If you search through my posts I have a history of irrationality and going off the deep end.

Rationality and humility is less interesting anyways. You and stogey put on a much better show then, for instance, JuicePats and Dhoff:

JP: You're old and stuff!
Dhoff: What? Can you speak up?

All this was reflected, in longer cup runs and essentially more money

Thats a good point, the cup runs did provide a substantial stream of money to the teams that took advantage of it. Clearly some teams, esp Stogey and I, have focused on that and reaped the rewards.

Yes. IMHO, bigger than what I have vs. a season 5 team, since I cannot take advantage of FA's or increased training.

I'm not getting the FA thing having as much of an effect. Though I see your point about increased purchasing power allowing the advantage of a deeper team for a cup run.

As for the increased training I see that as a benefit for a team that started before season 5. They drastically increased the training speed, IIRC, around season 3 to increase salaries faster. I think they gradually reduced the pace of training a 2-3 times after that, so that teams starting later would start training at a slower pace each time it was reduced.

I helped a couple other teams pretty closely during season 4 and all were able to pick up 5 decent young trainees at that time and progress very well. Personally, I never focused on having the best young trainees. Usually I aimed for the best players that were still reasonably trainable, so I'm not sure having the best of the best trainees was ever the worth the premium paid for them. Esp considering FA's and the rapid growth of teams kept the prices on good players lower then they could be.

I'm not saying your wrong about the part I quoted above though, there's a lot of data (some we have, some we don't) to take into account.

Last edited by brian at 08/26/2009 12:38:10

If you search through my posts I have a history of irrationality and going off the deep end.

Rationality and humility is less interesting anyways. You and stogey put on a much better show then, for instance, JuicePats and Dhoff:

JP: You're old and stuff!
Dhoff: What? Can you speak up?

It's that old bastard's fault, he had to go and be born on the same day as me (literally the same day in the same year).

I'll just assume that you agreed with everything I said, since it is now Wednesday.

If you search through my posts I have a history of irrationality and going off the deep end.

Rationality and humility is less interesting anyways. You and stogey put on a much better show then, for instance, JuicePats and Dhoff:

JP: You're old and stuff!
Dhoff: What? Can you speak up?

I don't remember this.

Oh, Juice, what are you doing for our birthday this weekend?

I don't remember this.

Juice, you're hanging curve is now ready.

I don't remember this.

Well, your brain starts to function poorly when you're so old, when Moses said "let there be light", you threw the switch.

Oh, Juice, what are you doing for our birthday this weekend?

I was thinking of going to Ted Kennedy's wake, but I dunno.

I was thinking of going to Ted Kennedy's wake, but I dunno.

You used to party with him back in the day, no?

I bet he was partying this past weekend.

Enjoy the early start and the extra money

No matter how you put this - it will always come back to it.

You win, congrats
You win and gloat, you had an advantage
You win, gloat and then rub it in - you get CT'd when you should of gotten TIE'd
You win, gloat, rub it in, get CT'd, complain about it, you look stupid because you should of never offered in the first place


You lose, your a joke of a guy because you couldn't even come out on top with a head start.

Last edited by Digging for Change at 08/28/2009 15:48:59