Subject: II.1

To each their own, but I would say that you should accept the losing for a little while and use that time to build your infrastructure. Being in division 2 will bring you more money and better young players.


Soon enough, you will start winning some games and before you know it, you will be a top team in your league.

If you got promoted to a higher league, it's cuz you won a lot down in III.X (which hardly has a reason to exist anymore considering the dwindling player base).

From experience, you get a lot more out of playing a season where you have to actually manage your team (set tactics, try not to fatigue your players in the wrong moments, etc), than just cruising by winning most games by a landslide while not even trying.

You'll get more money, better youth pulls, and I'm sure you'll be able to win enough games to remain in II.1 for the next season. So don't just quit when it's getting interesting!

10 games in and i'm right where I expected to be, near the bottom

I had a look at your team, and you have potential to improve drastically in this very season alone. I have outlines how to do so below, but feel free to play the game however you desire. My point is just to help you enjoy the game more so you stick with us!

The first thing you should focus on is dropping your number of players down, You only really need 3 lines to play, so fill those with a good load of high exp veterans that go for pretty cheap on the market (whose salaries are not astronomical). 1500+ OR 28-30yos are dime-a-dozen. Their CL doesn't matter. They're there to carry you through building your arena.

It's tempting to build up the sports academy and training facilities first, but the truth is, keeping youth to train them from scratch is REALLY expensive, and can only be sustained by having a full arena and 15k+ attendance at each home league game. Plus, no 15yo academy kid will amount up to much until you have level 15 in a lot of facilities, so there is no point. If you get one with like 80+ Avg Quality, put him on the market ASAP and make a bundle. It will propel you forward!

So cut the staff you don't need, 2 coaches is plenty and until your facilities are top notch, they don't really help *that* much anyway.

Save your money to get each section of your arena to the triple-floor multi-level ASAP (which I see you've been doing).

Managing 17-20 1200+ OR players will cost you about as much as what your team is costing you right now, and you'll win many more games that way (which means more income and faster progress).

I hope this helps!

I wish I had gotten these tips when I started out

I went the hard route in hockey and was still figuring it out when you joined! lol

I had a better run at Handball (which has been rough. I'm actually still building. Because cashflow issues.)

I would add to build up the HR facility faster than other facilities, because that will be directly in line with your income from sponsors, which is a big deal. Money is the name of the game all the way until you have nothing important left to build. Only then are you equipped to compete with others on player development.

A guy like this one:
Nikita Novikov will cost about the same as 3 much lesser player a day (but you have the extra roster to afford that kinda move), but he will bring in a lot because putting him on a line will instantly make that line more likely to be useful, even if the other guys are meh. His contract is LONG so you know his salary won't go up any time soon. His CL is low so no one will outbid you much, and he has exp and is a UW so can play on either side.

Thank you for the help

RMW press release:
Yesterday (yesterday when all my troubles seemed so far away) I picked up Johathan Reed who left the team on 2013-05-10.
His market sale is still a team record of $120,669,839.
Johathan will now end his career with the team that he started with.
Despite being 37 years old he still has some quality playing time left in him.

Thanks to canucks357 for his opening bid of IIRC $50,000,000, much appreciated then and to this day.

Cool thing! I hope Johnnie Aiken comes back home to my team someday.

Actually, he's a RFA now... let's try our luck with a little bid.

Not sure how many people follow the forums anymore, but I'm back after a few years out of the game. Looking forward to next season, since this one is over for me essentially already.

Welcome back wjloewen

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