Subject: "Transfer" price for magical coach

Highest bid: 860 416 $ [FC Fantasmas]
End of bidding: 2007-06-26 18:36



Apostolis Kostantinoy, age: 55,
wage: 37 400 $ country: Hellas
magical coach

Training effectiveness:
unearthly of stamina, good of keeper
unearthly of pace, unearthly of defender
unearthly of technique, unearthly of playmaker
unearthly of passing, magical of striker

... and still bidding!

High bid currently: Highest bid:
1 140 500 $ [Daru Team]

Is there any economical reason to bid that much?

depends on how far u plan ahead,

that cost will return after 1o seasons or so.

figure u save 10k every week with this coach compared to ur current one, 160k/season

10 season is 1.6m, so once again, depends on how far u plan ahead.

nope.

you're way better off using the coach search engine to pull one :)

@robfol

Guac seemed to be "hinting" a while back that coaches may not be signed for perpetuity or skills may decline. I cannot recall if it was one or both he alluded to.

I think he only alluded to a future retirement age...but thats been 'talked' about for a couple seasons now.

i have never heard of skill decline in coaches, and that makes perfect sense to me.

the only reason against, would be that a coach may retire before the investment payback kicks in.

As for trying to get a coach off the transfer market vs pulling one, its a risk asessment issue.

you have to decide if the pulling fee might be worth the risk(in this case i would pull, for 36k/pull).

However a magical coach with that low of a salary+i very good skill distribution (goalkeeper skill is the most expensive one, and least desired because of that +not many owners train goalies) is hard to pull (ask guac:)), so this bidder might not think the risk of pulling is acceptable.

well, thats my opinion, and its longer than i thought it would be :)
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I think the bidders just have more cash than sense. After all, if your sitting on a ton of cash, then why spend all the time trying to pull what you want when you can just buy it...

Of course I can't ever see myself in that position in this game, but I bet some of the teams that have been here since it started probably have a fat bankroll.

I've never heard of skill decline on coach, so it wasn't that :)

And everyone knows that no coah has retired yet, but i really doubt greg will allow 80+ year old coaches...

Come on guac, you are from Philly. Connie Mack did it!!!

as an A's fan I take offense to attacks on Connie Mack.

Attacks? All I said was the geezer coached in his 80s! You know, kind of like as long as Steve Carlton pitched and Tim McCarver caught (and now rambles incoherently on TV)

did carlton pitch later than moyer? or nolan ryan? surprised you'd use him as an example, i don't recall him being mid-40's...

Carlton was 43 when he hung it up...

Steve Carlton

We could have just used Roger Clemens as a present-day example.

Satchel Paige might have been the best example, though. He was 59 when he pitched his last game.