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#40259	10/03/2016 11:45:51 am
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	How do you make money at this game, enough to develop your team without going in the hole as soon as you start playing! Right now, I am better than minus four million in the hole. Not sure what or how I went wrong! Second, can lineups be set for cup games? Only see lips, raps, or spring training.

#40264	10/03/2016 12:09:55 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	The Cup uses the normal League lineups. So you will need to change your league lineups if you want different guys in the Cup. Malone was costing you almost 4 Million. So cutting him was good. Hood, Conley, Coleman. All those old guys cost money and won't be around to help you when you advance. As a LL-6 team you really want to concentrate on youth. They are cheaper and have more upside. Canales, Izquierdo, and Alfaro are probably not worth their price tags. The other thing is that you have too many seats in your stadium. It costs a good amount of money to maintain all those unused seats. Your have 25,000 capacity, but your season average was 16,524. Outside of some Cup games, you had 20,000 in one game and managed over 19,000 in three other games. I'd put your seating down to 18,000 to maximize your profits. Your stadium is costing you a lot in maintenance.

#40310	10/04/2016 5:29:35 am
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	ok, well, the 3 players (old-timers you mentioned) are gone. I will see if I can reduce my seating. Hopefully, it's not too late. Thanks again Rock, you come through for me once more. Appreciate it.

#40324	10/04/2016 9:34:16 am
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	well, too late to change my seating so guess I'll have to eat another of season of losses, did get rid of Canalis however. Kept Avarro because of my current pitching status.

#40327	10/04/2016 11:21:40 am
FurySK Joined: 02/07/2015 Posts: 299 Inactive	At 25,000, your ballpark really isn't costing you too terribly much. There are some teams that aren't very active in D.V and D.VI that have 50000 seat venues that simply will not be getting near capacity and are wasting dollars. I'm fairly certain you can sign guys out of FA that are at the minimum. Additionally, every little 200k counts amongst minor league players that won't really have an impact in their current setup. C Omar Menendez - no contact comment, no power comment, negative fielding comment, 500k saved. C Scott Cody - will max his fielding at a middle of the road amount. Really only would serve a purpose as a defensive replacement SS given his lack of comments. 1B Xavier Caballero - Never be a decent hitter = never hit for much. Theres no point in keeping him around on that alone. OF Howard Middleton - You can find better guys in FA when you recover money. While theres nothing in particular bad about him, he's not going to turn you into a long term D.IV team or greater, so in order to save some dollars. Those 4 players that aren't counting too much towards your future cost 1.1m a season. If you are budget crunching save money for better players.

#40328	10/04/2016 11:24:55 am
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5201 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	Would also recommend getting a different manager. Yours is an "old style" manager who has a lower skill ceiling than the new guys available. He's also making almost 3X what a new manager would cost you.

#40442	10/06/2016 8:49:57 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	ok, so if I release these four minor league players, where do i look for replacements on the free agent list? aren't they strictly for major league use?

#40444	10/06/2016 9:02:47 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Nope. You can find minor leaguers on the FA and waivers. Just set your search to look for guys under 25.

#40497	10/07/2016 12:46:28 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	to the poster who mentioned my getting a new manager, what criteria would you recommend. I think the poster was from the legends, something about dinosaurs.

#40512	10/07/2016 4:35:19 pm
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2238 New York Lancers V.4	I'll save Rock a job, least I can do:- You can reference the last post on this thread to see what the manager reports mean. BTW, managers don't grow. Their scores are set when they are generated but appear as all 10s at the beginning, only to reveal their actual results over time. This guy is an excellent teacher, ideal for a developing team. If you count down the ID numbers from there (ie. 2679 backwards) you might find someone better.

#40621	10/11/2016 11:57:34 am
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	ok, so, if i go looking for a new manager (have hired one already by the way), can I only see managers who are available from my league? The gu you mentioned, Michael somebody, can't remember his last name, did not appear in my long list of available managers! Also, how can you go in order via ID numbers, either for players or managers? The manger mentioned had an ID of 2679 but I could not go in chronological order to find one. They were all at random!

#40622	10/11/2016 12:27:03 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	To go backwards in order you need to go up to the address bar and manually change the web address by decrementing the number by one. If you search for all available managers, so won't show up because there is a hard limit on how many are shown. You can just follow the link posted and hire the guy directly if you want him. I like guy with good development skills. Other than that its up to you. Check out the thread posted for more info.

#40623	10/11/2016 1:16:06 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	I am not quite sure I understand what you mean by this. Which addresser and which number? What do you mean by decrementing the number by one, the guy's ID number? His ID was 2679 so you mean 2678? This is a bit confusing to me, sorry.

#40624	10/11/2016 1:42:32 pm
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2238 New York Lancers V.4	You have an address bar, yes? For typing in web addresses, like www.google.com, yes? If you follow the link again to the manager I listed:- http://brokenbat.org/manager/2679 You'll find he is still available. As Rock says, go to that link in your address bar, and change the number at the end to 2678. That will take you to the manager previous, and so on from there. The point of this is to find the "new" managers, not the ones found in the New Manager search function. You'll find better ones this way. Is that clearer?

#40625	10/11/2016 2:07:34 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	yes, actually I did find him that way. However,what if you don't have a specific manager in mind, how do you find one without using the search new manager page?

#40626	10/11/2016 2:10:10 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	That is where decrementing the number in the address by one comes in. Put in http://brokenbat.org/manager/2678 and then http://brokenbat.org/manager/2677 and then http://brokenbat.org/manager/2676 and so forth. Or you can just use the search function and just look for guys with decent reports. You just have to sort through more junk that way.

#40627	10/11/2016 2:17:50 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	no dice on buying this guy directly from the link you posted. I just tried it. Still shows me with the same manager I had before. Not complaining just giving a report. Anyway, thanks for the help.

#40628	10/11/2016 2:23:43 pm
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2238 New York Lancers V.4	That's because #2678 is already taken. #2679 is not - you can only hire the ones that are free.

#40633	10/11/2016 3:13:44 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Let me try to explain this a different way. Most things in Broken Bat web addresses end with a number. All the managers are listed from the first one created through the last one created as brokenbat.org/manager/1 ... brokenbat.org/manager/2679 What they are suggesting is work backwards through the numbers from the last one created (2679) until you find one you like that hasn't been taken yet.

#40636	10/11/2016 5:29:35 pm
bullet67 Joined: 06/12/2016 Posts: 51 Inactive	ok, so let me ask this; once i log into my own team page, I then go to addresser, type in the website given for manager search and then keep retyping in that address decrementing the number by one each time until I find a manager that suits my needs, correct? Then, when I'm asked to hire this manager, if untaken, he immediately goes to my team?

#40646	10/11/2016 7:40:45 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	That is the most efficient way to do it. But if it is easier for you, there is nothing wrong with using the normal search and hunting through the managers that come back. Just make sure to grab one with some reports about how good he is.

#40691	10/12/2016 7:21:38 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1	And yes the manager is immediately replaced at no cost. So if you find a better one later you can hire that guy instead. No extra cost.