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A new season is beginning to take shape.

My only goal is to reach the play-off final again, and promote if my team is capable. Other than that it'll just be the basics like training, building the arena, following NT/U21 etc.

Look forward to hearing everyone else's plans, and best of luck for this fresh season!

My goal for this season… survival. Now I’ve reached the top I want to stay there.

I am also going to be running for the u21 role so if I get elected I will be working hard to improve our junior training system and trying to be successful for our NT teams.

Finally, my own training goals for my 2 trainees for them to keep growing and become great players.

To remember to login and set the lineups. Probably have c****d up my trainees already but will try to salvage them as much as possible.
Try to be more active in general.

Well Wolfe led the country in scoring last season, if he has good defence to go with it he should be pretty good. If he doesn’t already have good OD I would guess he’d train pretty quick assuming his 1v1 skills are high due to his high scoring.

I can’t remember Albrighton’s skills off the top of my head but had a good defensive start, he just could do with some better offence.

Hi everyone, how are you all doing?

I have just joined this game and looking for a decent manual/ advice about the game. Is there anything like that on the forums?
Also was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me how many minutes ideally does a player need in order to get the best game shape, please Thank you.

All the best in this new season whichever league you are in!

Thorus



Last edited by Thorus at 01/13/2022 18:02:59

Welcome!

I have a short beginner guide in my signature where I tried to cover the "first steps" a new manager might want to consider.

Bubbles BuzzerBeater YouTube Channel is excellent: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFW6YNUb5UT0JF5yB1ynAbQ)

There are these forum threads, which are old but (if I remember) still mostly relevant:

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And of course the manual.

For game shape I believe about 60 minutes is recommended, with 50-70 being fine. I also read higher stamina players are able to get away with a few more minutes. There is a random element so it may deviate slightly even if you manage the minutes perfectly, but aim for that and your players should consistently be in GS level 8 or 9.

Good luck!

Welcome!

48 minimum, 80 maximum but the golden zone is about 55-70 imho

First day of a new season!

Should be an interesting season in the EBBL with some teams aging, others maybe selling up and eager new teams looking to survive. Division 2 could be strong this season as other than Bromley and Los Miktos I don’t see many relegation teams selling players so will be looking for a quick return.

Good luck everyone!

Thanks Testduo and Vecx!

The more you look into this game the more it seems like it will take an age to get anywhere.
The arena money for a complete full size stadium on level 4 and then capacity increasing.
That is a lot of money if you only have one home game a week?
Are they forcing us to try and make money on the transfer list from buying and selling?
Or promote and then relegate then promote?
I am so glad there is no real money to buy cash in this game, as I wonder how many people would just get fed up and say here take my money 🤣
Thorus

At the start finances will probably be easier than you expect:

* You get regular cash bonuses for the first few weeks as a new manager.
* You have no salary floor for 24 weeks, meaning you can keep wage costs below normal levels.
* Winning BBM and cup matches will give you extra income for the first half of the season.
* III is filled with bots and inactive managers, leading to easier wins and bigger crowds in the future. You're a bit unlucky in this respect as III.1 has way more human managers, but on the plus side your games will be more interesting.

Gate receipts are a bit low at the start but they should soon pick up. If I remember I started with $60-70k revenue per home game, now it's $140-180k without changing division. I wouldn't advise trying to daytrade on the transfer list, it can be done but I found evaluating players difficult at the start (and still have a lot to learn).

You are right it will take a long time to max out the arena + infrastructure, but in the medium-term if you build some extra arena capacity that's all you need. Then you can slowly build the remainder over time. After a season I think you'll feel comfortable with how you are progressing

Trick to winning early on is to try and avoid heavy staff salaries, resist the temptation to fill your team with young players thining you can train up players at the start, training is very tough early on, slow and costly and unlikely to reward you as you expect. Your best bet is to pick up salary efficient players (high TSP and skills and low salaries).

As you suggest you need to build your arena ready for D2. The arena trick is to build the Bleachers first, get them up to 10k but no higher until later in the game. Maximise your income by hiking your prices to the point you are about 95% full in each type of seating - this takes a bit of trial and error and the more your country and world rank goes up, the more you can charge.