Subject: A new low

B10 pales in comparison to the mighty B2. :)

33.9 baby. it's why I'll probably end up stuck in B league again. Competition is too good, for the second season in a row I'm struggling to get a favorable promotion matchup.

@islander1 how can you blame the strength of your league if you win the division? You are the self professed master tactician! Just win your qualifier and quite crying!! ;)

(oh and do not go saying that because you are a lower seed you got a tougher draw. my draw got harder after moving up two places)
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Well in principle the lower your seed the tougher your matchup. Your matchup worsening is the exception, not the rule.

If I were in a softer league I'd go undefeated and auto-promote, or at worst face a 7 seed from A.

tactics ultimately are limited by on-field talent *shrug*

I can get my guy a breakaway but I can't tactically tell him to shoot from 30 yards out for no reason over and over. I can't tactic my 48 skill goalie into not having shots constantly go in off of him. It's amazing, my 30 year old solid-good keeper did a better job then this guy. Makes no sense.

This is why I was so irate about the crap 'loss' earlier this season. I knew I'd be lucky to beat the Pronghorns twice in one season with the talent I have at striker. I expected one loss from him, and got it last week.

Give me a team equal to everyone else and I like my chances. However, thats simply not the case and my GMing skills over here aren't quite as good as over on HA.

After this is what, my third season here? I still don't fully understand this economy. What I do understand about it, I simply don't like/find enjoyable.

Having no significantly sellable youth pulls isn't helping matters either. I've pulled 'snake eyes' on every talented player in distribution.

Really, this game is more of a headache then fun now, but I'm hanging on until at least my team goes south. If I can figure some way of economically keeping it going, then I will.
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Only because JoJo quit... choked under pressure........ got scarred.

lol yeah, didn't you beat him into retirement? thats always fun to take credit for :)

but yeah, if Jojo were active, I imagine with the present roster B10 would be tougher.

It's a very tough division. I can empathize. If you took JOJO and Salisan (CPU) out of our respective divisions I think we score about the same.
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For sure, top 7 look equal.

edit: changed are equal to looks equal. Tactics mean more than ratings.
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well we've got one team that really underachieves, that's NJ Rangers.

Other then that, everyone pretty much plays to their level.

Pewsum's actual ratings are higher then the average now (42s). So are mine (39s). I'm sure you have teams like that also though.

The Blizzard are much better then their ratings I think. Panthers is (now) one hell of a CPU team. Panthers was a former A team that umm.. well, they were a worse GM then me haha. his team never really improved. Was a good tactical guy though. Barely beat him for the title last season.

There is a couple teams i'm not real familiar with. Honestly I think JOJO would of won B10 this season. The point was the prestige thou, high ratings more prestige.


we kinda side tracked this post lol

/hijack