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2201.12 in reply to 2201.11
Date: 10/23/2007 2:26:19 AM
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The draft worked the same way.... Perhaps it's easier to code...

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2201.13 in reply to 2201.11
Date: 10/23/2007 3:19:44 AM
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Cool, nice to see not just the Great 8 but the whole NBBA will be more competitive.

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2201.14 in reply to 2201.11
Date: 10/23/2007 5:57:47 AM
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because we felt it was a better indicator of who had the stronger team... though there was some debate about the relative merits of either...

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2201.15 in reply to 2201.11
Date: 10/23/2007 6:23:21 AM
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Playoff performance doesn't really do a very good job of ranking the teams other than the playoff winner.

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2201.16 in reply to 2201.14
Date: 10/23/2007 6:31:01 AM
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yeah. i realize that bot cleanup is more important anyway. looks like my team will have to get to the Big League the old fashion way: with a vengeance that knows no bounds.

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2201.18 in reply to 2201.17
Date: 10/23/2007 7:30:24 AM
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So this is going to be a seasonly thing and not just because right now we don't have as many users as we will?

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2201.19 in reply to 2201.17
Date: 10/23/2007 1:09:18 PM
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The way you word it there does leave a flaw in your system. Before the season started it was understood that the winner of the playoffs promoted. So in all feasibility, a team could have clinched a playoff spot a few games early, played "Take It Easy" for their last few and lost them, dropping their regular season record. If they would have known that maximizing their regular season record alone could have gotten them promoted, they would have managed the last few games differently.

Obviously this is a little of an extreme hypothetical, but it is reasonable. Hopefully this bot cleanup either doesn't have to become an every season problem or the rules for promotion to take additional spaces are set in stone from hereon out.

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2201.20 in reply to 2201.19
Date: 10/23/2007 3:54:12 PM
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We hope that this season will definitely be the largest such bot cleanup in buzzerbeater history, and that the top few divisions will soon be filled with loyal long standing teams.

I definitely see your point, but I just don't know how to fix it. I didn't like the bot cleanup idea at first because of this problem...

we aren't going to do any bot cleanups except in the offseason, as moving teams mid season would create ill defined standings etc..

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2201.22 in reply to 2201.20
Date: 10/23/2007 6:10:00 PM
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We hope that this season will definitely be the largest such bot cleanup in buzzerbeater history, and that the top few divisions will soon be filled with loyal long standing teams.
I definitely see your point, but I just don't know how to fix it. I didn't like the bot cleanup idea at first because of this problem...
we aren't going to do any bot cleanups except in the offseason, as moving teams mid season would create ill defined standings etc..


I believe this has been discussed elsewhere, but the HT model seems to work for removing teams when owners quit playing.....

I think now that higher divisions are predominantly or all owned by actual owners, it makes the HT format easier to implement. At a given point in a season, you "reset" the un-owned teams players and set them as a "bot" and then let them start their slow (or speedy) descent to the bottom divisions.......although I know BB has set the computer controlled teams to be "competitive", it shouldn't be possible for "bots" to promote....

the one-time bot replacement was a good thing, but as BB grows, having a logical way of assigning new teams is a necessity as is having un-owned teams reset. Having an annual "bot" clean-up should be unnecessary and ultimately would make the playoffs/promotion less important and almost meaningless....

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