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From: Dmitri

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263457.14 in reply to 263457.13
Date: 10/17/2014 19:53:20
Delta 9
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Questions:
-Who's the odds-on favorite to win the NBBA Title? Eugene, Bullish, TNT, Tucumcari or someone else ?

-Did anyone get a decent draft pick ?

-How will the blank lineup prevention affect things ? I think it will level the playing field a great deal ...

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263457.15 in reply to 263457.14
Date: 10/18/2014 07:34:47
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-Who's the odds-on favorite to win the NBBA Title? Eugene, Bullish, TNT, Tucumcari or someone else ?


way too early to tell; too many teams still fiddling with rosters and rebuilds. ATL has just sold everyone who brought The Hawks to the dance and is at ground zero. Tucumcari is removing salary -- to be replaced? AZ has eight players on his roster earning less than $10,000 a week -- where's he going? Our newbies are sitting on promotion cash and probably more and, from what i can tell, have not yet bought their NBBA squads. But to give an answer, TnT has an unchanged killer team; right now, he's the guy to beat.


-Did anyone get a decent draft pick ?


i saw that Saul got an 18 year HOF he is asking $4.25 million for

-How will the blank lineup prevention affect things ? I think it will level the playing field a great deal ...


this i would like to see your thoughts on why you say this. i did not know so many teams were using it.

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263457.16 in reply to 263457.15
Date: 10/18/2014 10:29:35
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ATL has just sold everyone who brought The Hawks to the dance and is at ground zero.


Don't mind me, I'm just passing through. A minor miscalculation resulted in my spiraling finances. I'm going to just collect some money and try for a quick bounce back.

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263457.17 in reply to 263457.15
Date: 10/18/2014 11:02:29
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Second Team:
Euphoria Seekers
Well, from what I hear the blank lineup is still in effect (thx Yuck). Thanks goodness - my team is (or was) built on depth and frequent substitutions. When you fill in the depth chart, backups hardly play

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263457.18 in reply to 263457.15
Date: 10/18/2014 20:43:26
Beware of Dogs
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-Who's the odds-on favorite to win the NBBA Title? Eugene, Bullish, TNT, Tucumcari or someone else ?


way too early to tell; too many teams still fiddling with rosters and rebuilds. ATL has just sold everyone who brought The Hawks to the dance and is at ground zero. Tucumcari is removing salary -- to be replaced? AZ has eight players on his roster earning less than $10,000 a week -- where's he going? Our newbies are sitting on promotion cash and probably more and, from what i can tell, have not yet bought their NBBA squads. But to give an answer, TnT has an unchanged killer team; right now, he's the guy to beat.


Same players, yes. Same skills, no. OTOH, I do like the hefty discount I get from all of these aging players.

Last edited by TnT at 10/18/2014 20:43:49

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263457.19 in reply to 263457.15
Date: 10/20/2014 14:18:32
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AZ has eight players on his roster earning less than $10,000 a week -- where's he going?


Rebuilding, doing a complete overhaul. It's time, my core is all 34-37 years old. Going to try and make an outside team. Would be interesting to make it back to the NBBA and win a title with a completely different type of team. Not sure if anyone's won it with an all inside team and an all outside team before.

It'll certainly be more fun to watch games and be happy instead of sad when my players chuck 3's.

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263457.20 in reply to 263457.19
Date: 10/20/2014 16:02:57
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i guarantee you we will be hearing from Hrudey within 48 hours about building an outside team in BB . . .

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263457.21 in reply to 263457.20
Date: 10/21/2014 11:04:52
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i guarantee you we will be hearing from Hrudey within 48 hours about building an outside team in BB . . .


I think he'd much rather hear from someone who could build a *good* outside team. ;)

From: AZ

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263457.22 in reply to 263457.21
Date: 10/21/2014 14:28:51
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I think I remember reading in a separate thread how you were building your outside team. Yours was an interesting idea. Mine is sort of similar, in the aspect that I'll be training the Bigs as well, but the builds will be different.

I've got a test case going right now in Utopia. But those trainees are limited, and won't be as good as I'd like.

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263457.23 in reply to 263457.22
Date: 10/21/2014 16:45:56
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if you don't mind, and i hope hrudey contributes his thoughts and experience, what do you think it would take to produce a good outside team? theoretically speaking.

i am guessing such a team would exploit JR much more than we are used to. but JR in combination with what? DR? and aim for a run-and-gun? DR and HA? run-and-gun or motion? team PA? and run a low post or Princeton? and does the ratio of JR to JS matter, or, rather, how much does it matter? i would love to create a team that is looking for 3s, but i don't know how to build that into the DNA of the squad (JR 17, JS 12?)

to me, the advantages are in the math. if you could create a team that shot threes at 33%, that team would produce points at the same rate as one that shot 2-pointers at 50% -- and very few NBBA teams shoot 50%, but many of us are in the 20 - 25% range without really trying. this suggests to me 33% is an achievable goal.




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263457.24 in reply to 263457.23
Date: 10/21/2014 17:12:01
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It would have to be more than 33%, because they won't take exclusively 3 point shots. They'll be some long two's, some attempts at the rim, etc. So if it's 33% from 3 and 50% from 2, it'd be even. But since jump shooting teams are typically (I think) in the lower 40's for average FG%, the percentage from 3 would have to be higher.

A few seasons ago (probably like 5 or 6) I saw that Poland's NT had a PF that was shooting a couple 3's a game in league play, and hitting them in the high 30's percentage wise. That's sort of what got me thinking about this.

For the longest time, I don't think Silverbacks had a big that was over 60-70k in salary, and most of his bigs were half that. They were all specialists with only rebounding, some ID, no IS or SB. So he put his payroll towards much more expensive guards than normal.

If through training bigs, we can save on salary, and toss out some NT caliber guards...might the overall 3pt and 2pt FG% be good enough?

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