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I’ve been an advocate of scrapping the 50-0 when a team decides to forfeit. In competitions such as the consolation tournament or B3/BBM, PD can make a massive difference to whether a team qualifies or not. And you’re right.. it takes the fun out of it.

I guess the issue is, what is the solution? The game can't be played so you can't put a fair score together with out a game. It has to be a set score. You can't make the score too high as it would disadvantage the teams that don't play against a forfeit, can't make it too low as it would disadvantage teams that do play against a forfeit. I feel that the teams that forfeit would generally lose by more than 50 points if they played the game (as they are mostly weaker teams) but it's impossible to say exactly how much a team would win by if the game was played.

I can't see a reason for it.

I guess the issue is, what is the solution?

This is the problem, I don’t really see a viable option which benefits teams that get drawn against a team who forfeits and one who doesn’t. It is a real bug bear of mine though.


Last edited by js8 at 2/1/2022 12:39:45 PM

I believe admins just should release that kind of manager and give a new quick selection in this case. :/ (and make this manager unavailable for elections for 2-3 cycles)

I actually quite like that idea for international sides. Award the runner-up with the reigns if three games are forfeited or something..

We managed to hit the threshold for removal...

(https://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

We actually got a game 3 as the Andorra coach selected a squad at the last minute. Thankfully I was alert and noticed this on my lunch break to adjust the team selection.

England dominated the game from start to finish as expected. The England offence was on fire throughout, shooting 62.% from the field and 60% 3FG. Apparently the Andorran squad didn’t want to play defence as not only did they allow England to shoot such high field goal percentage, they only gave up 2 free throw attempts, both of which were missed by SG Amarsari Singh. The free throw misses didn’t make any difference as England ran out winners 117-68, ironically the same points difference as if Andorra forfeited as previous games.

PG Jonathan Hendriks top scored with 21 points on 10-15 shooting and added 4 assists. SF Kirby Yarwood and SG Amarsari Singh hit 3 3 pointers each on their way to 19 and 17 points respectively. 20 year old Wes Fairclough came off the bench to score 18 points in 18 minutes on his U21 debut. PF Francis Padilla was the top rebounder with 12 to go with his 7 points. The team shared out the assists with 4 players getting 3 assists each with Hendriks and Yarwood each with 4 assists.

England move to 3-0 for the season, tied with Italy as the only unbeaten teams in the group. England next face Malta who are yet to win a game.

Fairclough did very well coming off the bench but MVP has to be the high scorer Hendricks for me.

You lying its called progresion :D look squad helped - not (-50) but (-49) :D