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Most certainly, the Big 8 is extremely tough again... possibly tougher than before. I guess we'll have to wait a little longer to see just how good Libertines really is... and the rest of the Great 8 too.

A little tougher than before?!? Ouch! You should have seen the league in seasons 12 through 15 . . . One those were some crazy years!

Were they? I believe I recall reading that this was the toughest Div. IV league last year, so... wow.

My guess is that Season 15 big 8 was better than the season 16 version. But partly, the Great 8 got better between those seasons as well. This year's big 8 looks like it has 5 pretty tough teams in it, rather than 4 last year? But the Dawgs were nigh unbeatable last year, and I don't think there's anyone that overwhelming. But again, Great 8 has continued to get better.

Well, we're about to start the Big 8 vs Great 8 matchups now, so I guess we'll see just how the two stack up against each other this season. I must admit, I don't anticipate a great stretch of the season for myself, not after tonight's second half.

UGH, don't remind me about them...God Dawg's you had to bring up the seasons I had to go Hibernate...Ewww. They made me wish I was back in Div III....Anyway, This season (no offense to anybody) I actually believe is weaker than the past few seasons. Though It might be more competetive...At least with a chance that we could split. It's still a fact that it's a moment of pride to be in the Big 8...Which is why I stay over in the Great 8 so I can just sit in 3rd place and grow my trainees.

How's it lookin from up there Dawgs?

BRUTAL.

I could not have landed in a worse situation here . . . very difficult league, very experienced and active managers. Plus, I was an idiot at the beginning of the season and sold a few of the wrong players . . . some of my key players last year were 32 and 33 years old. I tried to get younger too fast and lost my depth.

I am hoping to survive this season, after which my roster should be back up to close to where I was last year. However, this is a very tough league . . . so I am holding on by a thread.

The biggest difference between IV and III, in my opinion, is the knowledge level of the managers (no offense intended). EVERY manager in my league understands the importance of managing gameshape and enthusiasm. That means there are no 'weeks off' where you can train a center at PG to pop their passing or OD . . . which makes it very difficult. I have spend the first third of the season training a few players out of position - and I am sitting at 1-7 with a payroll of $175K.

I cannot overstate how important a large arena is to the longer term development of teams in BB. Having that constant revenue stream is absolutely essential. Teams simply cannot survive at D.III without at least 11,000 seats or more . . . its just not possible.

Yeah, getting to 11,000 is rediculously expensive...I'm going to be staying in Div. IV until I'm in the 15,000 ish range...with young players XD. Div IV is where you can make money with relatively low quality players....

Wish you luck man =)

Yeah, getting to 11,000 is rediculously expensive...

Yeah, particularly when you add 1000 lower tier seats at a time!!!!

You have a CRAZY amount of LT seats now . . . my recommendation (for what it may be worth) would be to add nothing but bleachers after this addition until you get to 13K bleachers. Bleachers go for $13 or so at D.III . . .

awesome Hopefully I get up soon. very tough opening glad to see the great 8 like the east get better i hope to improve my Defense soon will see

yep I didn't log in time but while I use TIE that's my friend told me to do I use more stuff now :)