Warrior General Games

So, I'm getting the itch to own a real team. I wanted to test the waters to see what interest, if any, there is for a slow build team owned by me. It would be a long term project designed to have us competing at the highest possible level at the ends of our careers. Here's the gist.

Team Plan: Train intense when applicable.
Season 7
- Super-slow build.
- Get cash from 6YP
- Get cut asap to save 6YP cash. . Train top two attributes.
- Dummy Team Owner gets on waitlist for a team.
Season 8
- Dummy Team Owner purchases a dummy team.
- All players sign to day40-ending contracts on dummy team.
- Slow-build on that team.
- Real Team Owner gets on waitlist for a team in a currently nonexistent league.
Season 9
- Real Team Owner signs all players released from dummy team.
- Dummy Team Owner returns team back to GLB and joins real team.


I've already got two people willing to be the "dummy team" owner, in case someone falls through. The goal would be to be level 13 with 3 boosts left at the end of season 8 and field a team in a capped league season 9.

I'd be running the show on defense, and will talk to lonewolf about offense. I'm not sure how interested he is, so if someone is really gung ho about taking on that challenge, let me know. The only things I ask are that you be a booster/CE buyer and that you buy into our team "philosophy" as far as builds go. No, I would not (nor would I allow my OC) to try and dictate builds, but I would ask that you be mindful of what we have in mind. If you'd like to be on defense, I don't need LBs and you should start training agility and spew unless you're a DT.

I would really love it if you are interested to want to make more than one player. They don't have to be the same position or even the same side of the ball, but I would like to make this more of a tight knit community and I think it's more easily achievable with maybe 10-20 guys.

I'm sorry if this pisses anyone off (my posting it here). If you're interested, PM me so this thread eventually bumps off the front page. If there is significant interest (ie:commits for 12-15 players) in the next couple of days, I'll get a private forum.

Cheers,

Bleeds

I could make one or 2 guys, already have 4 players on a slow build team this season.

How'd that peewee team you bought last season go... oh sorry for bringing that up

You should own a team bleeds, you'd be a good dictator

Ok, ouch, and ouch.

I was out of town for the peewee team announcement and release. Eat my ass. Hehe.

I'd love to have you on board, Bender.

I guess people could post position preferences in here.

Black River has already started a program exactly like this.
If you look at our roster, we're loaded with Level 1's.

Though they look like waterboys, they're actually slow-build players for Season 9.
The Rats will be around for 2 more seasons, then will be re-born after that.

The beauty of it is that we here in Black River will be set with cash after this upcoming offeason, so I'll be able to give the players all of their equipment money before they even get to their new team. The new team will be able to spend ALL of it's money on the Stadium.

So you're keeping them on the roster, killing off the high level guys next year allowing the lowbies to get exp, and then swapping the lowbies over?

I like it, but we plan on keeping 6YP intact as well.

Isn't there rules against full 'team' transfers? I was always hazy on that stuff.

Not if an owner sells the team and everyone gets offered somewhere else, right?

Don't ask me.

woah. S9 superslowbuild is a lot of patience.

*edit* sorry I thought that meant 9 seasons into the future.

Sounds like a good I idea to me. I would be interested in building a few guys for this. Let know if what you still need.

Originally posted by BleedsOrangeAndBlue
So you're keeping them on the roster, killing off the high level guys next year allowing the lowbies to get exp, and then swapping the lowbies over?

I like it, but we plan on keeping 6YP intact as well.

No. We're getting another team that these players will be signed by.
These guys are just getting paid by me to train. At the end of NEXT season, they will all sign with the new team.

The Rats may or may not stick together. The whole idea is that we'll recycle our teams every 4 seasons so we don't go broke buying FP to boost. This gives players the option to retire their RATS and use the FP to boost the new guys.

Most likely half of the team will stay intact, so I'll fill those spots with FA's.

The most fun with this seems to be the first 4 seasons. Building. Winning. Advancing.
After that, it's too business-like. Screw that. I like the fun part of the first 4 seasons better.
Agents get to build new players. Owners get to build new stadiums. The fun is recycled, and because we're retiring players, we won't have to spend nearly as much FP "Keeping up with the Joneses" to compete.

Originally posted by Scotty Boras


The most fun with this seems to be the first 4 seasons. Building. Winning. Advancing.
After that, it's too business-like. Screw that. I like the fun part of the first 4 seasons better.
Agents get to build new players. Owners get to build new stadiums. The fun is recycled, and because we're retiring players, we won't have to spend nearly as much FP "Keeping up with the Joneses" to compete.



I agree, after your player gets to around level 25-30 the game just seems to slow down as an agent. Once the stadium is complete it's pretty much autopilot for the team owner, except for trying to sign free agents. Maybe down the line there will be stadium improvements, like buying a dome or adding a new jumbotron.

Saying that, I'm hoping to keep the Lions together for a while. I've signed on as owner through Season 9 and as long as I can keep a good part of the team together (and as long as we can keep winning a few games) I'll stay around.

Originally posted by bigred97
Sounds like a good I idea to me. I would be interested in building a few guys for this. Let know if what you still need.

I need a FS, DE, CB, TE, FB, and maybe a QB, and then we're done.

Let me know for certain and I can get you into the private forum.

Originally posted by wooden_bender
Originally posted by Scotty Boras



The most fun with this seems to be the first 4 seasons. Building. Winning. Advancing.
After that, it's too business-like. Screw that. I like the fun part of the first 4 seasons better.
Agents get to build new players. Owners get to build new stadiums. The fun is recycled, and because we're retiring players, we won't have to spend nearly as much FP "Keeping up with the Joneses" to compete.



I agree, after your player gets to around level 25-30 the game just seems to slow down as an agent. Once the stadium is complete it's pretty much autopilot for the team owner, except for trying to sign free agents. Maybe down the line there will be stadium improvements, like buying a dome or adding a new jumbotron.

Saying that, I'm hoping to keep the Lions together for a while. I've signed on as owner through Season 9 and as long as I can keep a good part of the team together (and as long as we can keep winning a few games) I'll stay around.


lol jumbotron.

iF you're a coordinator L40 is where it is most fun in some ways. You've gone through a lot of promotion/demotion so you have even competition (like A5, but not everybody is like A5). Really bad builds start to catch up by L40. Really bad stadium building starts to catch up. In some cases, your team's builds are finally balanced so you can try either run/pass or blitz/zone - and same with the opponent. It's not all bad - if you like parity that is. L13-30 has more build emphasis, L40 has more scheme/gameplanning emphasis.

L40 becomes more challenging for FA's though since ppl lose interest in the game. Replacing a L40 is much harder than replacing a L13.

Originally posted by dimmy finster
L40 becomes more challenging for FA's though since ppl lose interest in the game. Replacing a L40 is much harder than replacing a L13.

This is the exact reason for my new plan.
I'm on several teams where the average is L40, and it's hard to keep people interested, and once you DO lose someone, it's almost impossible to replace them.

I guess our theory is that the chase is more fun than the catch.
We're going to keep an "ERA" log. It'll list the accomplishments made by the team during their era. Tournament wins, conference titles etc.

The first team in will be the Rats.
So far, 1 tournament win and 1 conference championship.