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At the beginning of this season, revenue for the TV contract went down again (after last year's drop),
this time with more than $ 4000
How come the TV contract already dropped 2 seasons in a row now ?

In 2 seasons time, that's about $ 9000 less in fixed income / week.

How is this number calculated, does anyone know ? Is this the same for all countries, or is this different per country ? And if it's different per country, does anyone know the viariables taken into account to calculate it ?

Joe, maybe you know this ?

Last edited by Eagle at 02/23/2016 21:36:34

It's calculated with the 1st economic update of the season

I can't remember the right forumla but it has to do with the players salaries in the whole league. I think they take the somme of all salaries and divide it by the number of teams. As said i don't know if this formula is 100% accurate bit I am sure that it's calculated on players salaries.
As you know many teams on the red side are rebuilding and trying to save money, so I guess this is the main cause

Not really, have you ever seen in real life a TV contract go down?

In european football the TV contracts are currently exploding (in the premier league f.ex. clubs are signing like crazy (also due to a low euro-£ change) but the premier league is currently pretty weak on european competitions)

Next season in the NBA there will be a new TV contract that allows players to get a contract up to 110 Mio (currently it's ''only'' 80 million) (NBA is currently boring, the Cavs will meet GSW or Spurs in the finals, I don't see any team competing against those teams)

I understand what you mean with it's realistic, that's how it should be but it's not realistic :P

Prices have gone totally crazy, not just for players but also for trainers which seems to indicate that the teams have too much cash (yes, that's possible).

With the luxury hoarding tax, teams will be encouraged to spend even more money, meaning that prices should go up even more this season before things stabilize.

That's really difficult to plan anything with such a market, when a single good player will cost you 5 M (unless 34 yos of course).

exactly the reason why i'm trying not to dip into the market right now. However, if you have a good player and you are considering to sell him, then that is a whole different story. now would be a premium time to do so, since you'll be receiving a premium price.

Should be interesting to see how things move on from here. i'm extremely pleased with having taken care of my staff at the end of last season. i was anticipating that prices would be absolutely insane... i'd reckon it will take a week or 2/3 to settle and that the prices will go up just before the B3 transfer deadline. After that, prices should return to a slightely higher lvl than they were last season, since the teams who are just below the 25M area will want to keep that cashflow there, thus resulting in a slight elevation of overall prices (on the top end players. for the lower end market, it will stay the same).

what i'm most dissapointed about is that i haven't seen a single 18y old MVP belgian player on the TL. if you don't get a decent draft, then it seems that you'll have to try and pry them away from there managers after a couple of seasons training. considering that this is problably not the first time, it shows that our futur NT probably isn't going to have a too big of a pool of players to chose from (good news for my draftee :P)

I agree that the rookies are not easy to find - besides being expensive.

Something one should not forget is that the number of active BB players has dropped significantly. Less teams, less players, good players trained. It's the laws of supply and demand.

I'm not sure whether the deciders are willing to lower the TL prices but imo one of the possible solutions would be to provide much better rookies - I mean players who can have an impact straight away or at least who have much better skills. Afterall, rookies coming in the NBA can be used straight away and some even become franchise players in the first season.

Yeah, but that's kind of a "power creep" solution. And training requirdes a lot of commitment : any dumbass can hoard money long enough to buy himself a team to succeed (not to succeed in everything, but at least get some success) but training a player with a fine skill plan and sticking to it no matter the cost while also getting results / trophies / avoidong relegation, etc ... requires some serious skill.

If you take it away by making the lottery of the draft even worse, that's not rewarding for the teams that actually provide good players.

And NBA rookies have quite some time at university level before they are drafted, so it's not as if they were fresh from high school :p

what i'm most dissapointed about is that i haven't seen a single 18y old MVP belgian player on the TL. if you don't get a decent draft, then it seems that you'll have to try and pry them away from there managers after a couple of seasons training. considering that this is problably not the first time, it shows that our futur NT probably isn't going to have a too big of a pool of players to chose from (good news for my draftee []

Just some figures for you from the draft-scouting:
- we had about 120 newly drafted players in our database; we started to contact the managers monday and most mails were already send that evening itself. This had to be done as quick as possible to prevent players to be put on retirement and eventually start the training as soon as possible.
- 66 of them answered (49 from 18y, 17 from 19y)
18y: 6 HoF, 2 MVP; 19y 3 HoF, 5 MVP
- 53 (41 from 18y, 12 from 19y) didn't answered or are not active (no bots). They even should have got a reminder-mail!
18y: 1 HoF, 3 MVP; 19y 1 HoF, 4 MVP
All of these 66 answers were appointed a scout (some already during the same week, the last ones on saterday) and again contact was made during the weekend...
I've especially mentioned HoF and MVP as GM-Athrunzala seems to be interested in the chances his Jean-Didier has ;-)

As to the TL: more then 120 belgian players star+ potential were on that list during last week, and lot of them in one or another way trainable (although not all to U21-levels). I didn't looked them up all, but I don't think more then 30 have been sold. MVP's and HoF's on the list were sold....
Lot of these players on the TL...were exactly listed due to our mails making some managers attentive to their nice players.

So do not hesitate if having questions about our draft to ask them!




Last edited by AnGi77 at 02/24/2016 17:42:14