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We're still too quiet then...if you're not posting about BB, at least tell us what you're doing in the real world, or in other online adventures!

I just made a decision in selling off my 2 highest salary players...Will likely home advantage in the playoffs I could've tried to hold on, but I felt I needed to change things up. Definitely risky at this stage, limited time to buy + get new guys into game shape, but we'll see how it goes. If I didn't think I'd win it all anyway I've not lost anything...Johansson injury definitely badly timed though :(

GG in the cup Gully, close one that, I thought either of us could win. Based on the semis lineup you are now the favourite.

I'd think Doncaster is the favourite. He has the best GS and has thrown the last game. I think it's pretty much a given he'll get garbage time against Gully in the Tuesday game which means he can get very good minutes again this week (because he will know whether I'm going for it or not, so chances of him ending with subpar minutes should be low). Gully will have a little more Enth, sinc ehe will PON the next cup game.

I have a little bit of a dilemma: if Verhelst does not recover from his injury by Thursday (which he should, hopefully), it will be very hard for me to beat Doncaster and I won't know this tomorrow. Also if Batley doesn't sell tonight, there is a good chance that if I win the next league game I will go 2 games up on Gully and Zalgiris (always hard to win @ Elmacca, it will be tight). However, I'm not sure if playing on the road without Verhelst against Optic Fibres would be a more difficult game than playing on neutral ground against Doncaster at peak GS.

I'm surprised that I won the last 2 games (the cup and league game), but Banuelos is now the player with the third highest TSP on my team and Brona is the 5th. Banuelos will be the second highest after Marichal at the end of the season, barring injuries. I'm in that sort of period when your trainees get better than some of your starters and you don't notice since you train them week in and week out.

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Needham hit 150 TSP last week. His last plan (that may be slightly conservative after all) involved an extra IS to 151. I'm not sure it will happen this season but IS has already been trained since the last pop. After that I don't know what to go for. ID sounds like the obvious choice since it will have sublevels from IS training and elastic pull from IS, not to mention that Needham is 6'8''. He's 28yo so it's possible to train him for another 2 seasons and hope for pops.

I'm not against selling him to a good English manager to wrap him up, but I'm afraid he will cost more than people are willing to pay and I will have to waste money to keep him from going to some foreign team if I put him on the TL. I suppose we will have to see if this guy (40886524) sells and for how much. Needham is not better than that guy as a guard, but he is 3 years younger and even after the IS pop he'd only be around 130-140k salary (he might switch from SF to PF formula when that happens but he will still be 97%-100% capped according to Buzzer Manager).

GG in the cup Gully, close one that, I thought either of us could win.

Thanks. I actually thought it was over at half time but should have known better. Would be stupid to call it revenge for last season's semi but it did feel good.

Based on the semis lineup you are now the favourite.

I usually try to transfer the favourite tag to someone else but I don't think I could argue convincingly. Certainly the bookies would have the Wasps as favourites. Wouldn't make us good value though.

Ouch it was Vecx not Elmacca :P

BB surprised me so many times, it can be so unpredictable.

Verhelst is the key, if he won't recover Thursday, then with GS currently I have, I should make it to the final.



Last edited by Jakub at 07/28/2020 16:24:36

After a slow start, I'm starting to get to grips with EBBL and I'm happy with the improvement in my squad. I do however sport a high wage bill and my team isn't living up to its expectations when that's taken into consideration but I'm definitely enjoying the challenge.

One other thing I am enjoying is the battle from 4th - 8th on the red side. It's so tight down there and every game and point look to be key approaching the back end of the season!

Last edited by js8 at 07/28/2020 16:52:05

He's back but unfortunately I went for the league game, possibly with wrong tactics, and I will not have a kamikaze go at the cup. The final should be a good and tight affair, good luck to both.

Regarding Needham (43467139), if someone is interested in buying him (in a season or later) please let me know or contact Vecx/NT manager. I'm happy to give his skills privately and facilitate a transfer to someone who can keep GS up and finish him up by extracting those last few pops and train his ST and FT. I may end up promoting back to D1 in Utopia, but my team is effectively a farm and I can't buy Needham with my main team due to the rules. I just want to let people know, so they can prepare if interested.

Hi everyone, sorry have not been active in the forums. With the current situation, work has almost doubled.
JS8 it is good to see you back!

Just looked back and realized that I have been playing this since season 12. Most of which I played every now and again but did not take it seriously. For a long while, I just trained players for the U21 team to start with. However, since I managed to get Galloway into the NT team my attention has been focusing on trying to train players for that purpose. So I am just mainly positioning my team every season to get the best use out of the economy and draft when needed (like this season). So I am happy going up and down from D2 to EBBL and back down again.

Hope you are all doing well

oh my, Jakub: I basically told you I was gonna throw the game!

Good luck to both finalists for next week.