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That would be great!

Your first 7 weeks will be highly profitable, get your wins in early because as the season goes on it gets harder. Likewise you’ll probably have to choose between cup and league soon and at this stage it’s a no brainier, fight to stay in the league.

Pick your battles. You can't try hard in every game so only really do so when you have a good chance of winning. Be aware of which teams you're fighting with. Which is really the other teams who are fighting to avoid relegating.

I also agree with Vecx. League is all important. Forget the Cup as soon as it gets too hard.

Also, check your arena pricing after every game. Money is so important.

Cheers fellas.

No doubts this season will be biggest challenge so far.

How do you cope with training, especially with youngsters?

Last edited by Blusa at 10/26/2018 08:16:19

Train youngsters in the cup and in league games you've decided are too difficult to try and win. The weeks you don't have training slots available can always be used to improve stamina or free throws.

Also, accept you may have to focus efforts on fewer trainees than before, if you want to stay up.

Edit: once you are established in the EBBL, you may be able to get away with playing a 22 or 23 yr old trainee in a competitive game.

Last edited by Elmacca at 10/26/2018 09:16:48

Not very well last time I promoted. One of the reasons I went down was because I was training three young players. Now, two seasons on, that shouldn't be such a problem but its very difficult. Two position training in weeks when you have less difficult games at least means you're not faced with playing a trainee for 48 minutes, but that's about all that helps.

Surely you can't train 3 youngsters if you want to be competitive in the league..

PS. Give my Barik back!!!!!

Also don’t judge teams and players purely on salary, there be hidden monsters here!!!

Nice to see this active in the past few days, the forum was so quiet last season. I checked at the end of the season and I think there were 19 (maybe 29) posts in here? That's the lowest for seasons. I was definitely part of the problem when I've been pretty active on the forums before. I'll attempt to get re-engaged! Maybe we needed new new blood.

My current team is a mess though...yet I still have the highest salary in the league :D idiot. I got promoted with high TSP / low salary players, went with that kind've method in Utopia too and now I'm well, not there.

I was trying to win the league last year but falling to 3rd (saving enth. for max playoff enth.) meant I sold a few oldbutgood-ies just before the playoffs (and was still somehow matching Zalgiris away with less enth. through 3 quarters!). Zalg knocked me out of the cup last year too (after OT), they should really be my current rival. Me vs LIDL has been uneventful recently I'm sure.

Training and winning is hard for sure. As someone else said it's about analysing the 3 games you've got in the week and picking which you want to win and managing enthusiasm well.
I won two cups while training at least two players each week a few seasons ago. They're now 24 and 26. The latter is definitely good enough to hold his own as a starter now, but even the 24year old is still a weak link (hey, that might be my dodgy training I guess). I trained 3 players most of last season, one 18 (sold him for 500k after buying for 2k, I'll take it..).

Last edited by Bergkamp at 10/26/2018 14:11:00

Great to be back and read all these posts! I was not expecting to promote and my team is in shambles.... however, I will try to win a few matches! My only advice is: choose your battles carefully and never underestimate anyone! Good luck to everyone!

(I'll post the s44 preview and poll soon, just a heads up so two of us don't do it at the same time!)