BuzzerBeater Forums

Another possible bad news

(322520.22)

What nobody understands is why you are here opening these threads. These things are always preceded by a BB-. And even less about a change that will happen in the coming seasons, as if you were the one who set the times and the pace of the game. From what I see, I think you have trouble understanding something quite simple: You are just one more, you are not special. Nor are you an official channel even if you try to be one.

People don't want to talk on Discord, they want to talk here, comment and debate with the owners who are the ones who should change the game. This is not so difficult to understand I think.

I guess the new owners don't know about your ways because they haven't been around long, but a large part of the BB community doesn't respect you and believe me, I'm pretty sure you know the reason why. If you really love the game, you would step aside. You don't have to and shouldn't do the game communications yourself, it's a label that unless it changes officially, it's not yours.

I have nothing against changes and the advancement of the game, like everything else, is necessary in this life, but this is not the point.

Simply, as many users say, you have no role and you take advantage of the change of owners to get in a little more. And I repeat, it's not personal, it's about the character you're trying to create here. It's not the place, not in this way.

Last edited by Tim Thibodeau at 6/28/2024 5:29:20 PM

Two main problems with the current salary formula is that:
- IS is free for SF, which makes no sense considering that ID (a defensive skill that is used to stop SFs with high IS) costs for SF.
- OD is free for PF, which makes no sense considering that JS (an offensive skills used to overcome PFs with high OD) costs for PF.

In other words, the thing that needs fixing is that IS should cost for a SF position just as much as ID does, and OD should cost for a PF position just as much as JS does. No need to make OD cost for C. It should stay free just as JS is free for C, and if you train a C with high OD, their salary formula will naturally at some point switch to a PF position. Same goes with IS for guards, if you train a player with JS/OD/IS 20+, they would probably be SFs, just like how players with JS/OD/ID 20+ are SFs now.

Of course, you can't just make IS cost for SF just as much as ID does, without tweaking the rest of the salary formula for SF as well, otherwise all the current top guards would be SFs with 400k+ salaries. So SF formula needs the most tweaking, and PF formula needs some changes as well.

Other positions only need some minor tweaking, like balancing the salary formula between PG & SG position so we would have roughly equal amount of players in both position, while right now there are 2-3x more PGs than SGs, at least at high levels. Probably reducing a little bit the cost of HA & PA for PG would be a good start.

^
|___ This man knows his sh*t. Listen to him, please.

Some more remarks:

When balancing the formulas, do not just make those skills cost more. Make others cost a bit less as well. Crappy players need to be paid less and top players need to remain roughly where they are now salary-wise.

Together with salaries, adjust potential formulas accordingly. Otherwise we are destined to see some crazy stuff.

Reflect those salary / potential adjustments in the BM tool, so that we know what we are doing training-wise. I do not wish to spend 8-10 seasons training players blindfolded...

Last edited by mink0ff at 6/28/2024 6:09:54 PM