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Originally posted by JonHuntsman2016
Huntsman's General Manager Guide

Hello, I'm President Jon Huntsman. Most people know me as one of the most dynamic and successful General Managers in the GLB. I've decided to create a helpful guide in order to teach others my secrets to being a great General Manager. Everyone knows that managing involves making great deals and out coaching the other teams. You are responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit making results for your organization.

Playing to win the Game

Most people don't understand how incredibly easy it is to be successful in the General Manager position. Usually in order to make a team great you have to start from the ground up. When we build a house, we do not build the roof and work down, we dig deep and we start from the practical facts. It is important to be well networked in GLB. When I take a General Manager role, I message a handful of my friends and decide who is going to help me in where in building my team. always know whom you are working with, never bring in new people. New people are a threat to the structure of your team because they may go out of your orthodoxy. a good coaching staff always agrees and is always being innovative. Sometimes I allow members of the teams players roster to serve as the assistants on the coaching staff. Example, I might make the agent of the teams super star quarterback the ass. OC. This allows you to make new connections as you will work on the team together and some of these people will go on to serve as the non assistant coaches on other teams you GM. Set your style. The New York Yankees are only as good as their pin stripes - that's why their great. Be great all the time. Create a great program and you will gain a following of people who will always want to play for you, coach for you, and most of all win for you, and winning is everything; you play to win the game.

In the Defense of the Wildcat Playbook

I love to coach rookie teams. Everything is new, everything has a new car smell to it, it's fantastic. One of the main challenges of the rookie season is the sub-par passing game. quarterbacks take time to develop and it's usually a good idea to get your points on the ground. I'm always looking for ways to work around a passing game as a General Manager - but hold on, if the whole idea is that it's easier to score running, why not have a rushing quarterback in a wildcat offense? This gives you a 5th rusher (don't forget your FB)changing the game dynamically. You have three half backs, probably one fullback, and the quarterback rushing, rushing is the main way to score points and you play to win the game so everything works out pretty well. I think as glb2 progresses we will see more teams using the wildcat playbook.


Investing

How much is a good team worth on glb? are you willing to take out funds for those flexpoints? I owned a team once and I personally think the cost of the game is ridiculous. If I were an administrator, I would cut the cost of the game by about half of what it is now. But spending money is how you make money, or at least good dots. Word of advice, owners should spend lots of flex points creating players. agents on the team who have several players might deserve an assistant coaching spot, but as a GM, never bring more than five of your own players on the team. You should be well networked enough that you can get other agents to create players for you. Reward them with coaching jobs but don't fill up the important slots as you will need the playbooks of your coaches for great game plans.

Conclusion - Why Winning is Everything

I've won hundreds of games on glb. It's fantastic to win. I hate losers. But over the years I've found some things that can get in the way of winning and being the best team.

- Inactive players: always cut these players. Most people don't know that CPU players are more valuable on the field than inactive players. these people are losers and their agents gave up on the team mid season.

- Conservative play calling: always play to win the game regardless of the situation. one of the worst things you can do in this game is "play not to lose" its terrible, usually doesn't work, gives the other team more points and ball possession. Blitz often and when you do pass the ball trust your receivers to make the plays

- Losing: Never do this is possible. Losing is the worst thing in the game and is terrible for your team's season.

I hope this has been an informative playbook for your season as a General Manager. Good luck and remember there's nothing other than winning.


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Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Is there a reason why we continue to allow "California Psychics" to steal money from dumb people?


Stealing money from dumb people is what capitalism is all about. Are you some kind of communist or something?
 
InRomoWeTrust
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Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
While we're at it, is there a reason why Democrats and Republicans haven't united across the isle and decreed that state lotteries are an insult to the people they represent because the laws of mathematics doom those who play them?


I had a poverty conversation with Romowoman last week about the lottery being a tax on the poor and the lower middle class. The government may omgerd over lost education dollars, but it'd be a nice stimulus.

There was an article a while back that talked about how the extreme poor (under 15k household income) spend about 10% on lottery tickets every year. If that same 10% was spent in their neighborhood we'd have a better America.
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Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
I had a poverty conversation with Romowoman last week about the lottery being a tax on the poor and the lower middle class. The government may omgerd over lost education dollars, but it'd be a nice stimulus.

There was an article a while back that talked about how the extreme poor (under 15k household income) spend about 10% on lottery tickets every year. If that same 10% was spent in their neighborhood we'd have a better America.


and about 7-8 yrs ago when NC finally voted YES to lottery, the way they passed it through was to call it the "Education Lottery"

our schools have gotten steadily worse since then and the lottery has brought in BILLIONS of dollars
 
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Originally posted by foshizzel17
and about 7-8 yrs ago when NC finally voted YES to lottery, the way they passed it through was to call it the "Education Lottery"

our schools have gotten steadily worse since then and the lottery has brought in BILLIONS of dollars


Oklahoma calls it that too, promoting the hell out of "raising money for schools". Which is a crazy angle, since part of an *education* is supposed to include learning that its FOOLISH to play the lottery.
 
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Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
I had a poverty conversation with Romowoman last week about the lottery being a tax on the poor and the lower middle class.



It absolutely is.
 
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The lottery isn't a tax on poor people... the lottery is a tax on stupid people.

Just so happens poor people tend to be less intelligent than rich people.
 
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but if i win the lottery i'll finally be able to provide for my 37 kids
 
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Originally posted by Vuijox
but if i win the lottery i'll finally be able to provide for my 37 kids


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Originally posted by Knick
The lottery isn't a tax on poor people... the lottery is a tax on stupid people.

Just so happens poor people tend to be less intelligent than rich people.


That's racist
 
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Originally posted by foshizzel17
and about 7-8 yrs ago when NC finally voted YES to lottery, the way they passed it through was to call it the "Education Lottery"

our schools have gotten steadily worse since then and the lottery has brought in BILLIONS of dollars

I understand why you say this because the North Carolina media has been pushing this narrative and most people don't actually bother to research the things they hear, but it isn't true: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/newsroom/news/2014-15/20141007-01 2014 was the first time North Carolina high school students had ever beaten the national average in one of the SAT's components. As the link notes, AP participation and scores also improved. From the media description you would think that the education budget had been gutted as well, when in reality the state has spent more money per public school student in each of the last five years than any other year in the state's history except for 2009 (when state spending in general reached its all-time high and set off a budget crisis). The education system in North Carolina has been rated poorly by various outlets, primarily because of low teacher salaries, yet the actual results have been improving. Note that this is not intended to be a blanket defense of the N.C. legislature or N.C. Republicans, many of whom are complete idiots. I'm simply pointing out the facts on the off-chance that you might be interested.
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Originally posted by jdbolick

I'm simply pointing out the facts on the off-chance that you might be interested.


.......... quit raining on my preconceived notions.........
 
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Originally posted by jdbolick

I understand why you say this because the North Carolina media has been pushing this narrative and most people don't actually bother to research the things they hear, but it isn't true: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/newsroom/news/2014-15/20141007-01 2014 was the first time North Carolina high school students had ever beaten the national average in one of the SAT's components. As the link notes, AP participation and scores also improved. From the media description you would think that the education budget had been gutted as well, when in reality the state has spent more money per public school student in each of the last five years than any other year in the state's history except for 2009 (when state spending in general reached its all-time high and set off a budget crisis). The education system in North Carolina has been rated poorly by various outlets, primarily because of low teacher salaries, yet the actual results have been improving. Note that this is not intended to be a blanket defense of the N.C. legislature or N.C. Republicans, many of whom are complete idiots. I'm simply pointing out the facts on the off-chance that you might be interested.


Yeah, we've had the same thing here for quite a while. In the beginning we had some issues with how politicians were handling the money (lottery money that was supposed to go to the schools was being 'pooled' and bled off for other things)... but some serious griping by the teachers and schools, which led to people getting angry, and now it's pretty good. I still think not every single dollar that should go to schools does... but things are much better than they were.
 
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Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
L-O-L. New Jersey winters may be wet, so you get plenty of slushy roads but they are far from bad.

<<<Lived in NJ for 20+ years so don't even.


Well, I have only been here a few years, but we have had a lot of snow and some really cold weather. My yard was a solid sheet of ice last year for over 6 weeks because it never got above freezing during that period and an ice storm froze everything right before that stretch. I also only made it into the office 1 day during a particularly bad week for snow in late March this year.

I'm not pretending I live in the Yukon, but I can't get away with a car designed for AZ weather either.
 
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