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Season 74 Update: Salaries, Hoarding Tax, Training and Our Next Steps

Following your feedback, we have reviewed the changes announced during the last off-season. Here is what will apply in Season 74:

- Salary formulas: We will return to the formulas used in Season 72 and earlier
- Hoarding tax: The threshold will not be reduced to 15 million.
- 3–2 zone: The planned nerf will not be implemented.
- SB training: The change allowing SB training to include some IS training will remain.
- Elastic effect: The reduction will remain. Its impact has been relatively small, and we will continue to monitor it.

We have also begun preliminary work on new salary formulas, with the help of a group of experienced and knowledgeable BuzzerBeater managers. We will share meaningful findings with the community as this work progresses.

Long-Term Planning and Future Changes

At its core, BuzzerBeater is a game built around long-term planning. Whether you are managing your team's finances, training a player or building a championship-winning roster, your decisions often depend on plans made many seasons in advance. Updates to the game should respect that commitment.

The changes introduced during the last off-season were intended to improve BuzzerBeater, but we rushed their implementation and did not give managers enough time to prepare. We take responsibility for that. Our approach did not respect one of the game's most important principles: long-term planning should be rewarded.

We still believe that the salary formulas and the wider economy have underlying issues that need to be addressed. However, we have decided to step back and reconsider our approach.

Our immediate focus will be on the beta of the new website and on making it an enjoyable experience for both veteran and new managers.

Shortly after the new website moves out of beta and launches as the official version, we will publish a roadmap outlining our priorities and goals for the years ahead.

After the official launch, we will also review the economy as a whole, including the salary formulas. Future changes will be guided by fresh aggregate data, community feedback and collaboration with you.

Your feedback has already shaped the decisions announced here, and it will remain an essential part of this process.

We recognize that some managers were affected more than others. We discussed possible compensation, but concluded that it would create further unfairness among the managers affected. For that reason, we will not be offering compensation.

We are sorry for letting you down. We will apply the lessons from this experience to future updates, with greater care for the time and planning you invest in BuzzerBeater.

We are talking with several veterans including ones in CLUB mode

I burned 4 million for arena design and 900k for new arena seats that I didn't needed at all because of this hoarding tax scare. It's frustrating and I feel fooled.

Last edited by Kasyak at 10/4/2026 7:55:08 AM

I burned 4 million for arena design and 900k for new arena seats that I didn't needed at all because of this hoarding tax scare. It's frustrating and I feel fooled.

And I spent 8 mil on a player, trying to get to the 15 mil cap, not to loose money.
Was not planning to buy a player for next 3 seasons, and look now!

Fooled like a 3y old kid.

This game becomes a jok, one day its like this, the other day its like that.
Overnight changes, its not a serious game anymore, maybe a time to say goodbye after all those years.

We are talking with several veterans including ones in CLUB mode :)

Just make sure that some of them aren't his (new BB) buddies, but critics. Or else you will get echo chamber feedback. Also remember that NT mode is played by less than 1 percent of players and if player base expands, it's gonna be more like 0.01 percent :)

Last edited by Aries at 10/4/2026 8:28:06 AM

that arena design is actually a good investment (unless you had different design already). Over next 3-4 years you will get your money back and then start making pure profit

arena seats not worth it though as you already had 20k capacity

I understand why both of you feel let down. Spending several million to prepare for an announced change, then seeing that change withdrawn, disrupts the long-term planning that makes BB meaningful. We should have given managers more time and clearer information, and today's announcement takes responsibility for that.

The proposed reduction to a 15-million hoarding threshold will not apply in Season 74. As explained in the announcement, we will not be offering compensation, because we concluded that it would create further unfairness among the managers affected. I understand that this does not undo the decisions you already made.

We need to apply this lesson to future changes: clearer advance notice and greater care for the plans managers have already committed to.

Different club-management approaches, including views that challenge the proposed changes, are important to this discussion. As confirmed above, club-mode veterans are already involved. Your point about hearing a wider range of views is well taken.

Concrete examples of how a proposal affects club finances, training and competition are especially useful. Please keep bringing those here, including criticism of the proposals. We should assess the effects on the game without making assumptions about individual managers.