Subject: I.1

General is 291 5 star
Media I have not signed but 2 star is 305

Is anyone going to run for the U21 team?

I decided to run because nobody else had signed up.

If anyone else wants to run, send me a message before the end of the day.

It looks like the current manager signed up but didn't write a presentation, which appears to prevent the manager from showing up as a candidate.

I sent a message to the current manager, though it might be too late at this point.

Holy crap, no wonder I can't compete. I'm sitting around $10MM/wk for general, and $10MM/wk for media after moving up to D.I. Sad part, only bumped up about $2MM from D.II for general and lost about $1MM in media. Was wondering how the heck you guys built your facilities up to level 15

... i told you on page 198 of this thread how the sponsorship money system works... and recommended that you spend some time in division II for a bit in order to rebuild your OTR.

Sponsorship money is honestly so heavily tied to OTR it's crazy. Even though you annihilated everyone in II.3 and are promoting back to I.1, your OTR is really, really low at 382.83 (compare that to some of the other people who posted on the last page).

It's like i said before... it's way way more important to consistently win (at whatever level you're at) than anything else. The reason that I have one of the best infrastructures in the world without ever stepping foot in division I.1 is because of that.

It's one of those "balance issues" that many games have. Part of excelling is sometimes figuring out how to best play within the system that you're given.

ya know?

Yeah, I remember and actually posted this based on that comments I saw on pg 198 (not realizing that I was 3 pages behind the thread). I went real low and 5-1 the whole season and never adjusted, but yet here I am. Unfortunately, I'm in-between D.I and not good enough and the D.II and too powerful that unless I throw games, I can't stay in D.II (which I can't because I don't have the young low level players on my team to substitute).

This being said, I get the reasoning behind OTR being the driver but there should be some cap that the #1 isn't making 3 times more than the #14 team just because OTR is 100 higher.

I agree with your comments on OTR "reform," but I still say that you would've been just fine staying in II.3 had you committed to playing solely your players that were 18 and younger (and possibly even going to the market to buy some more young talent to flesh out that age group).

I failed to advance to I.1 despite playing 3 guys that are top 10 players in terms of OR pretty much every game this season. It happened because pretty much everyone else I played had ORs of less than 1000.

I didn't really "throw games" (in fact... i never even played below NORMAL energy during the playoffs). That's the key though... playing at higher levels of energy than needed all season actually helps more come playoff time, because your team is tired. Playing on VERY LOW almost made it a forgone conclusion that you'd promote.

If you don't want to promote, the sweet spot is playing your ass off (higher energy) and doing awesome in the regular season, and then limping through the playoffs.

ha ha ha, so basically the opposite of my typical strategy (low during the season, higher in Playoffs). To be honest, I'm at the tipping point with this game. I mean I get what you're saying but at the same time it doesn't seem fun to sit and milk the D.II realm just to get OTR when in fact I'm like #11 in the US for OTR (and only what, 20 points lower than you at #2). I think the issue is probably what we've talked about earlier.

Handball for US is just not progressing so the European teams will always have more competition, better sponsor $, better local players, etc. I saw someone they said combining US, Canada, and Mexico which would then put us on more even playing grounds but the fact we look like we're about to lose D.III because of the lack of coaches isn't making this game too interesting to me.

I'll hang in there until my subscription expires, can't bother with logging in, or re-gain interest to want to build and because top 10 in the US but right now I'm just not seeing it.

yeah.. regardless of how you decide to go from here, you definitely stuck it out longer than most.

I will very readily admit that I am a VERY patient manager. I've done the ultimate slow play when it comes to this game (I'm just now REALLY starting to see the groundwork that I laid several calendar years ago start to pay off big time). I'm planning on advancing at the end of this season, and competing to be a top 4 team in I.1 going forward...

But it's definitely kind of crazy to me when i think about it now... I drafted Ted Keenan three long-term girlfriends ago.

Listed all the players for sale. Good luck.

Joseph Delaney is back for a low 8.4M Good to get him back on a team again.

mehhhhh... see this is why i don't feel like I can sell U.S. born players...

Ben Peters is 78 AvQ, 600+ OR 16 year old with 6/6 CL and he just sold for less than $200k to a team with miserable training facilities.

He likely would've been on the youth national teams if I had held onto him, but I'm just swimming in fees for being over the player cap, so I'm really trying to trim back.

(It'd be much easier to do if when I sold players it wasn't akin to sending them to the graveyard...)

hey... does anyone have any interest in Lamont Russell or Ronald Buffman ?

Both are decent prospects with good starting OR, I just don't really need either of them (basically just drafted them because they were the best available - Lamont Russell was an "A" rated draftee).

Anyways... I'm just hoping to not have them go to waste like Ben Peters (above), but I don't really want to spend the fees for carrying them (I'm above the player cap so each of them is costing me over 100k a day even though their contracts are in the ~4k range).

both are 5/6 so not really worth it