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Not surprised all the people missed, it was only 24 hours between sims and its the holidays.

Wow, nice sim for the Hornets, winning 13 of 14. Looks like I've found my frontcourt rotation.
Livingston and Melo both made the all-star team, which is always nice, even though it means nothing.
However, Melo suffered a major injury, a broken jaw, and will be out 8 more days. Better now than at the end of the season...

I would never have expected being 1.5 games behind the Nets, but it's definitely a nice surprise.

That's not bad, 13 of 14  :lol:


I'm suprised tough seeing Tmac winning 3pt shoot out,  i had 2 guys on sophs game vs rookies (Shultz didnt make All-Star this time hehe), im kinda suprised how CPU chooses MVP of All-Star games (both R/S and A/S), rarelly the guy who really deserves it wins it.

The Wizards started the season on fire but then went on a horrible slomp. Now on a good run although not as good as the hornets run, still very good in my opinion winning 13 of the last 16. Like 2 nights ago wizards were in 2nd to last place in the division but now have climbed to 9th in the playoff race. Quite a surprise  :D

Also, just wana say ... MerryChristmas, Happy Hanukah and a Happy Kwanzaa to every1 in the league. And a Happy New years as well.

Open the sim with 5 straight wins then Boykins torned his hamstring and still going to be out 14 more days.  Hump fills in nicely but got into foul trouble and later on sprained knee still out 3 more days.  Overall went 7-5, could of done better if not for the injuries.  Nice holiday break, happy X-mas everone. :cheers:

I forgot what it feels like to have a really good sim :)

After going 9-8 the last 2 sims I wasn't all that impressed, but this 12-3 sim has gotten me homecourt advantage in the East, just 1 game back of 3rd. My 21-4 record at home is tops in the league, I believe.

Anyway, I don't feel like crunching the stats for 15 games, so I will just do a game by game breakdown.

Raptors 112 Bulls 98 -- Yao went off with 43, 12 and 7 blocks. In total I had 6 guys in double figures, including Leo Sanders who played 11 mins off the bench and went 5-5 for 10 points. Max had a good game with 15 pts, 7 asts, 6 rebs. Dickau also played great with 13 pts, 9 rebs, 7 asts. Great to see the team total for assists was 29.

Wizards 80 Raptors 75 -- Ouch, at home no less. When you have a young team, you have to be prepared for losses like this. Shot just 35% as a team. Yao was the leading scorer with 21 pts and 16 rebs. Jefferson added a double double with 13 pts 10 rebs, but shot just 5-14. However, the big reason was Max went down with an injury just 3 mins into the game. This was the 2nd straight sim that Max has gone down, which is unfortunate.

Raptors 86 Magic 76 -- A tough, scrappy win by my guys. Yao came through with 35 pts and 10 rebs to lead the team. Garcia was able to chip in 10 pts and 11 rebs in JUST 17 MINUTES. Arbogast logged 44 good minutes at PG, scoring 9 pts and dishing 7 asts. His defense on Mangrum was acceptable.

Raptors 117 Pacers 95 -- HUGE 22 point win over division rival! 5 players scored 14 or more points for me. Yao led the way with 35 pts 9 rebs. Perry had a great game with 18 pts, 6 rebs, 4 asts, 4 stls. Arbogast logged another solid amount of minutes, getting 15 points and 9 asts. This was probably the biggest win of the season as I try to hunt down a top 3 spot in the East.

Raptors 80 Sixers 73 -- Another great defensive win. This team is showing me that they can win a defensive game OR an offensive game. Yao had a phenomenal game with 25 pts, 21 rebs and 7 blks. And finally, FINALLY Jefferson showed his true colors with 21 pts, 16 rebs and 6 blks. I am really hoping for Jefferson to develop into a better defender to eventually succeed Yao at C. Arbogast had another good game, proving that I have THREE starting quality PGs on this team.

Raptors 106 Pacers 90 -- WOW. Another HUGE win over the Pacers! Yao carried the team with 41 pts and 19 rebs. Jefferson had his second straight good game with 17 pts on only 9 shots! Dickau and Perry were both strong on the glass, getting 9 rebounds each. No wonder Jefferson only had 5. Arbogast turned the ball over 8 times, welcome to the big leagues, kid.

Raptors 96 Wizards 82 -- Yao had a triple double, only the 2nd of his career, with 43 pts, 16 rebs and 10 blocks. Dickau and Jefferson both scored in double digits. Another defensive win, which is great. The addition of Jefferson seems to have helped the defense quite a bit.

Raptors 120 Pacers 79 -- WHAT!?!? A 41 pt win over the Pacers? That's it, I'm tanking so I can finish 6th and face the Pacers in the first round. A 41 pt ROAD win against a top 5 team in the league, that is just amazing. Yao had 41 and 18. Jefferson added 22 and 6 rebounds. Ahhh.....now I see that O'neal was injured for this game...and 1 of the other ones, that's a bit of a buzz kill ;) Max was back for this game, and had 16, 6 and 6.

Raptors 110 Cavs 94 -- Yao had 39 and 19 to lead the way. Max chipped in 16 pts and 11 asts, while Dickau had 18. Overall the team shot 50% which is great, Max makes a huge difference in that regard. Jefferson was able to hold Rookie - Sophmore MVP Strait to 11 pts on 5-16 shooting.

Clippers 107 Raptors 102 -- Ahhh, 5 pt loss to a top 3 team. Perry got torched by Maggette. Yao had 39 and 13, and Dickau had another really solid game with 13, 8 and 7. This kid has the potential to develop into a consistent triple double threat.

Raptors 109 Grizz 98 -- A good win against a good team on a bad streak. Yao had 41 and 14 with 6 blocks to lead the way. Max chipped in with 20 pts, 10 asts and 5 rebounds. Jefferson had 12 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists.

Raptors 106 Hawks 95 -- One of those must win games for a young team with hopes of making a run. Yao had a great game with 46 points and 12 boards. Perry stepped it up, out playing Kobe to get 19 pts, 7 rebs, 4 asts, 5 stls and only 1 turnover. In contrast, Kobe had 15 pts, 1 reb, 3 asts and 3 turnovers.

Raptors 113 Heat 112 -- A big overtime win against TD and co. Yao fouled out in only 31 minutes after getting 19 pts and 11 rebs. And his backup, Sanders, came in to play a HUGE game with 21 pts on 8-13 shooting. Sanders was clearly the differnce as the rest of the team shot terribly. I thought Sanders was a great 2nd round choice when I drafted him, and I still think that now.

Raptors 112 Spurs 80 -- It's great to get these blowout wins where you play great offense AND great defense. Yao had 38 and 12 to lead the way. Dickau chipped in with 21, 5 and 5. Max had 15 pts and 12 asts. Jefferson shot poorly, but was still able to get 13 and 6. However, he struggled to keep BJK off the boards.

Hornets 106 Raptors 85 -- Tough way to finish off the sim, but this young team is never going to beat a top team on the road. Yao and Max both played well, everyone else did not. Again, Perry got killed at SG, I'm wondering if his height is preventing him from playing adequate defense. I'll have to change his position to see what his D goes to.

I was notified by Sonics that his roster didn't show up.  So I went back and tried re-oututting the html, and was left with a very vague error message from FBB that said "error outputting html, please save and try again".  I tried it a few more times and got similar errors.  So I then took the file, put it on my laptop, tried outputting html, same error.  Tried simming 10 days, output html, same error.  Tried simming the rest of the season, on day 95 got "subscript error 9" or something like that.  Tried this a few times, wouldn't let me go past day 95.

Since I tried this on both computers it appears the save is corrupted.  Tomorrow I'm going to go back from my save from day 51 and re-do the sim.  Let's all hope and pray that it works.

At best these 20 days are going to have to be re-done.  At worst the sim could be lost.

Looking at the All Star stuff....


No idea how Max doesn't get in the 3 pt shooting contest when he is shooting 46.5% from downtown.

Who is Mitchell Hernandez??

Good to see Max starting at PG for the Sophmores. He had a good game.

Was hoping to see 1 of my rooks make the team, but oh well.

Yao leads the East in scoring despite getting ONLY 6 SHOTS. Thanks, Livingston. No Emeka??

doesn't hoirnets have a copy of the file?

What does that mean?

Did my rookie just played for the all-star game? :D

KINGS!!!!!!

I can't open my team's page. It's only a blank page, nothing more.

Since i went 9-1 in last 10 games i really hope we won't have to cancel the entire sim and re-do it again. :?

both marion and JO had injuries for 6-8 games

still could manage to beat some quality teams behind artest.
finished the sim with 4 wins in a row after both came back.
because of the injuries i couldn´t sent any players to the allstargame
hope this sim can be redone  :D

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I upload a copy of the save to the ftp after every sim, so the copy up there is the same corrupted copy I have.

I keep a before and after save of every sim, so the league should be fine.  But there's is zero (0) chance of that last sim counting, since I can't continue with the current save.

Damnit.  I went 8-0 :(

can you tell us when the sim will be redone?

Bad sim for the Warriors.  Can beat all the team I should be beating, but never beat the top team.  This is a serious problem.  Some lineup alterations are going to be made to see if the problem can be solved.

Great All-Star Weekend for the Warriors this year.
Both Dirk Nowitzki and Kirk Hinrich start, and Kirk Hinrich comes out with the MVP trophy.

The sim will likely not count, it has convinced me some changes might be necessary to compete for the championship.

Either tonight or tomorrow morning.  Most likely tonight.

Wow, what a luck
 :roll:

Redoing the sim can't provide a worse result for the Celtics. We went 5-7, but 6 of those losses were horrible ones: 3 happened in OT (2 of those at home), 2 more by 3 points and one by 6 points to the Clippers. Only the Magic beat me convincingly once.
In the 5 W's my average win margin was 16pt meanwhile.
 :?

Anyway, I'm in trouble without a third scoring option besides Lenard and Chauncey and without Swift not good enough defensively to hold down my opponents. So some lineup changes are a certainity ...
 8)

Oh and btw, thanks NetsGM for losing the AllStar game.
 :wink:

I mean it's nice you let TD get his farewell tour and all but with Yao next to unstoppable how can he only get 27 minutes. But props to Antonio Lenard for tying Yao and TD for top scoring honors.

The re-do sucks for the Hornets too  :( , but as long as the entire thing isn't messed up then I'm not worried.

God damn!!

Not now!! Kings are first in Pacific!! :evil:

Ahhh, as long as the sim isn't lost....

Hell, if it is, we all get to rebuild again...it's not the end of the world either way.

Ever since Yao won the All-Star Game MVP a few years ago, he has never been able to get minutes or the ball in that game. I mean, he shot 5-6 this game. If a guy is shooting 83% from the field, and your team is losing, AND he is the best scorer in the game, you'd think you would go to him more often.

Maybe the Knicks will do worse than 5-3 or whatever they went. That would be a nice compensation.  :)

Nets, does the corrupted save have anything to do with the draft preview?  That is, will the draft preview get reset too?  If so, isn't there a good chance that the ratings on the draft preview page will change?

Nope, draft preview is exported from FBCB.  After it's exported, it can be re-imported 1000 times and stay the same.  Draft preview won't be affected.

Shit, there is no way i can repeat this sim:

Win over Nuggets by 22 and 18 , Grizzlies by 30 and 21 +. Just complete destruction of the opponent.

Damn! :?

Results back up.  All is well.

Hm...

5-3 rather than 8-0.

Now the #2 seed in the east, Dalembert injured.

Thanks, FBB.

You think that's bad. I go from 12-3, 4th in the East, 1 game back of 3rd to 8-7, 6th in the East, 4 games back of 3rd.

FBB is more luck than skill.

Dunleavy had a nice sim 7.

14 pts, 8.8 boards, 2.8 assists, 1.8 steals, 46% shooting, 46.6% 3pt as a non-option.

Of coourse, Dirk made him his absolute b*tch.

But outside of Dirk the next highest scorer against him in the 2 sims was 13 points, so not bad overall.  Oddly my offense failed me these two sims.  But my rebounding kept me in it.

Fuck, I hate FBB. Let's compare.



Well I had another bad sim, and I'm very unimpressed again. I'm actually tied for 4th in the East again, but my now record of 18-7 at home is nowhere near tops in the league.



This time I still won, 86-85. Yao had 22 and 17. Max still had a good game with 22, 6 and 4. However, instead of having 29 assists, I had 18.



This time I won, 107-98. Still shot poorly as a team, but at 39% instead of 35%. Thankfully, Max did not go down with an injury this time, and Yao had a much better game with 33 and 13.



Still won this game too, 113-73, a blowout. Yao had 44 and 16, and Jefferson had his breakout game here, with 23 and 14. Max shot just 1-10 but had 13 assists.



Instead, the Pacers get me by 3, despite my guys holding them to 6 points in the 4th Q. Yao had an even better game with 34 and 20. However, Perry did not contribute, and Max failed to score a point.



Well, no, got tooled here again. Still a defensive battle, but Sixers take it easily, 90-80. Every single player on my team except for Sanders has a very, very sub-par effort. Terrible.



Ok, still tooled the divison rivals and they HAD JO this time. Won this game 101-77. Yao filled up 31 points and 19 rebounds. Max broke out of his slump with 19, 8 and 5. Jefferson scored 19 points on only 5 shots, way better than before. Perry also had a great game.



Well, still won this one too, 86-77. Yao didn't manage his triple double, but did have 28 and 15 to lead the way. Jefferson was very solid, as was Tayshaun, who started in place of an injured Dickau. Great. Max had another 1-10 game, just beautiful.

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So half way through the sim, I'm at 5-2, when last time I was....6-1. However, I have now lost Dickau.

And now to look at the second half of the sim, where the real fun begins.



How in the hell can you go from winning by 41 the first time, to losing by 29 the second time, A SEVENTY POINT DIFFERENCE. FBB is on crack. Of course, was still without Dickau, as Tayshaun took his place and did nothing. Yao had 42 and 14, Perry played well, and everyone else deserves to be shot, most of all Max.



Yeah, still won this game too. This time Yao had 51 and 13, a great game. Max shot 1-11. Holy fuck, what the hell. Jefferson, Prince and Perry all had decent games.



Still lost, just not as close this time. Dickau returns to get bruised by Brand. Jefferson and Dickau both had decent offensive games, and Max had another terrible game.



Still won this game too. The best part was FBB finally shows some consitency as the results were pretty much the same.



THis time I ruined the Hawks by 50. Yao had another great game of 51 and 17. Jefferson, Dickau and Max all played allright. Perry was again great defensivly against Kobe.



This time I lose by 11, getting outscored by 15 in the final frame. Quite a few good individual games by the guys, but nothing together team wise. 4th Q collapses are something I really don't need right now.



It was a blowout win again, except this time I get beat by 15. A 47 POINT DIFFERENCE. This time around Dickau still plays well, but Yao plays terribly. Sanders had a decent game off the bench, and Max played well. Jefferson shot 2-13, and again Kim killed him on the glass.



Made it a little closer this time, but lost Perry. Nothing else to comment on.


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So for the 2nd half of the sim, I go from 6-2 to 3-5. I love you FBB. And instead of having no injuries, I lose my starting SG for 5 more days. Fuck.

I guess I can't be too angry, I'VE SEEN WHAT THIS LINEUP CAN DO, AND IT'S A 12-3 SIM, NOT A 8-7 SIM. SO FUCK RIGHT OFF, FBB!!

No Max in the 3 pt again.

Still don't know who Mitchell Hernandez is.

Max doesn't start this time, But has the most assists in the game.

Still no rooks, but none really deserved it.

This time Yao leads all scorers with 25 before fouling out. Still no Emeka.

On a much more positive note, Merry Christmas, or for some of you, Happy Holidays.

Guys, remember, I don't want to sound like anyone's mother, but it can't be said enough...this is the season where there is always alot of drinking, and always alot of driving to be done. Please, please don't mix the two. All of you guys are valuable to this league, if one of you gets thrown in the slammer, the league might fall apart. But seriously, don't do it.

Other than that, Happy Holidays, guys. Have 1 for the RaptorsGM. And if you don't drink, have a virgin eggnog on me.

And know that I will have 1 for each and everyone of you :)

WOW! This team is just sick! 15-2 in the last 17games!!! Mavs got my number twice.

thanks for the redone  :lol:

without the injuries and some luck i could win a lot more games.
short recaps:
@nuggets W Artest 27 leading all with 6/7 from 3P
@wolves   W JO 43/13 against KG good to have the normal Jo back  :wink:
wizards     W again JO with 29/13/6/3/4 great all around game
@raptors   W another great game from JO 31/13/8/5/3 my pgs hold max to 0pts in 35 mins :shock:
warriors    L a great game but a loss; i am not sure why. My starters outscored his even rocky played kirk even with 21/11 possible the weak FT shooting but also ruffin going for 18/14/5 but it was close enough for some positive views
@raptors   L a blowout; the raptors pardon YAO deserved this win - he fouled all of my bigs out (no one could stay more than 25 mins in the game) FTs advantage at the end 49 raptors 16 pacers
hawks       W Jo leading the way with 48/10 marion went to the IL in this game
hornets    W like last time without marion but this time with JO 27/9
sixers      W still without marion but artest and Austin (maybe he rembered getting no contract from the sixers  :wink: ) shot combined 7/14 from the 3P
raptors    W another try by YAO to win a game from the FT line but this time JO 28/8 could counter and had some help from Artest 24/5 and Rocky 24/5 a solid win even without marion again max had his troubles
Grizzlies  W i really like the def effort my team showed against the grizz
allowing only 35% from the field JO 26/11 and Artest another great outside game with 21 (marion is still hurt - great to see my team can take some injuries)
@bucks    L a blowout loss; my team wasn´t even on the floor only JO with some success
mavs       L great teamplay by the mavs congrats; marion came back with 28/9 and JO 23/20
sixers      W Jo with 24/10, marion 27/4 and foster...  :shock: 20/20
bulls        W both JO and Marion with 27/10 amare had almost a triple double with 27/8/10blks wow
@suns      W Jo with 28/14 held the suns under 40% Fg%

so overall i had some winning series of 4, 5 and now i have 3 in a row
i finsished both sims with 12-4 great
but the next sims will be even tougher: i have 12 games in 12 days ... :?
next sim 3 times the nets why??? last sim 3 times raptors now nets come on give me a break  :wink:
if i can stay in the top 3 after that i will be very satisfied.

i wish all of a Merry Christmas, or for some of you, Happy Holidays.

bods please help me out. can you explain me this:

i checked some of your scorings, by the way i feel sorry for sammy going down twice in a sim.
but the problem is this: if i figured your depth chart right
C: Dalembert, Darko, Dalembert
PF: Emeka, Gooden, Gooden

how could it be that in the last game of the sim aginst the bulls emeka played at C and Darko at PF
Emeka Okafor C 41 4 17 0 0 3 7 13 3 3 1 1 4 11
Drew Gooden PF 32 3 7 0 1 3 4 18 3 3 1 2 3 9
Darko Milicic PF 20
in the rest of the sim emeka played Pf
FBB is really crazy  :?

Tinsley and Forston played great. Bibby was out for some time and Tinsley really fullfield all the expectations. Although i had even better sim and was first in pacific, the warriors had even sicker one and now they're the first. Got to catch them until the end of the season.

So let me start with this complete domination:

+ 26 against the Clips: Hoffa with 54pts/18rebs, Bibby 18/13 and Forston 18pts and 13boards. I'll start this man, he's superb.
+ 8 vs the Suns: Hoffa again with 50/13. The whole team was 50% from the field and 50% from the 3pt land. :)
+32 vs the Sixers: Tmac 47/7/6, Hoffa 26/10, Fortson with 17 boards and again astonishing 58% from the 3 pts land.
+25 against the Sonics: Mcgrady 39/9/13, Bibby 25/7, Hoffa 21/10/5, Turkoglu with 12pts in 15 minutes. 54% from the field, 61% from the 3  :)
+13 vs the Grizz: Bibby 17/13, Fortson 13/12 and off course Tmac with 26 and Hoffa 23/6. Posey had strong game too with 18pts and 6 boards. Only 46% from the 3pt land this time.
+14 vs the Nuggets: Hoffa 35/19, Tmac 29/9/7, Tinsley with 8pts and 11asists. Easy W.
+14 vs the Blazers: Player of the game - Danny Forston with 18pts and 15boards. Tinsley with great overall effort: 7pts, 5steals, 6asits and 7boards. Nice...
+ 1 only vs the Suns: Tinsley had his best game so far as he chipped in with 11/12/5. Hoffa was his usual self with 35/11 and Camby with 4 blocks and 11 boards.
+12 vs the Grizzlies: Hoffa 33pts/17 biards, Tracy 29/7/11, Forston 14/10 and Camby with 7pts, 4 blocks and 11 boards. Outrebounded the Grizzlies by 18. I like that.
+13 vs the Rockets: Hoffa with nice 49/13 and whole team was 53% from the floor. I'm really shooting well lately.
+16 vs the Sonics again: Hoffa and Tmac combined for "modest" 63pts, 24boards and 5 steals and Forston with 4 blocks and 13 boards.
+ 30 against the Sonics again: Bibby came back with 23pts and 16 asists. Add to that Hoffa and his usual 37/19 and Tmac 25 on 55% of shooting and 55% from the 3 and Sonics never had a chance.
...and the last game of the sim complete destruction of the second placed Nuggets team. Crushed them by + 29. Tmac and Hoffa were at the top of their game. Hoffa with incredible 31pts and 22boards and Tmac with 36 on a 15/19 shooting ( :shock: ).  Bibby had a strong game too with 21/10 as the Kings went for 53% from the floor and this time 70% from the 3. We're not taking them much, but hit almost anything we shoot.

Great performances and a great sim for the Kings. Now, lets take that 1st seed. 8)

4th best in the league at 69% winning record. We need to go up even some more.

Because when sammy went down I switched my depth chart to:
C: Emeka, Darko, Emeka
PF: Gooden, Darko, Gooden

Went from 8-6 to 5-9...despite the big turnaround inthe Raps game.  Haven't analyzed yet but definately not what I had hoped for.

did I announce it can't get worse? Well, I was wrong, it can easily get worse.

I get the same record as before, finishing the sim 5-7, but the way this was "accomplished" has me shaking my head.
In the first part I went 1-5 (instead of 3-3) losing 3 times to the Magic (who went 4-6 the rest of this sim, nuff said !!!) and to the Nuggets and Bulls, who I all beat the first time.
In the second part I only lose two close ones (Hawks ??? and Clippers) and beat the rest of those beatable teams.

Still, I'm searching for some creditability in FBB. How can a team I blow out one sim do the same to me when we re-do the sim when we both use the exact same game settings and lineups (we weren't allowed to change them, I hope, for god's sake) ?
 :?

No, wait, let me continue with the other side of the domination medal:

-12 Mavs. LeBron torched Posey for 42 on 18-27 shooting, TMac with a subpar 23/5 and another home loss
-3 @ Mavs. TMac with a great 38 (on below 50%) but Kris Humphries completely dominated Hoffa: 33/14 on 55% shooting (vs. Hoffa's 15/12). Ouch ...

(btw, as far as i remember you lost at least  one, if not both Mavs games in the first sim too)


Completely agree. this is a heck of a team.

If you can avoid the Mavs in rd 1 you might even get to the 2nd roundd and win the title ...
 :wink:  :lol:  8)

Your argument is pretty much the same as your team: laughable.


btw good luck in the lottery (it's Christmas time afterall!)





 :lol:  :lol:

Sim 6 best ever for me 4-0, sim 7 terrible (why the hell i was changing rotations), went 2-6, lots of close games lost, team remains at #8 tough, it's gonna be tough battle.

Early re-sim winners:

Warriors +6
(what a turnaround, they really really lucked out big time here. Instead of being 2 games behind the conf lead they now have a comfortable cushion to Kings and Clippers)
Lakers +4
Pacers +3
(and took the division lead - for the first time in AGES !)
Magic, Sixers, Mavs +3
Kings +2
(they had a fantastic first sim, even for their skyhigh standards, and amazingly did even better the 2nd time around. And still lost ground to the top)

and the losers:

Nuggets -3
(no dramatic droppoff but the lose 9 GAMES on the Warriors in one re-sim)
Hawks, Nets, Spurs -3
Raptors, Wizards, TWolves -4
Hornets -5
(call that a negative swing: from 1.5 games out of the division lead and 4 games ahead of the Pacers they lose 8 GAMES (!!!) on the Pacers here and drop 4 behind them)


And talking bout losers, count me too:
First, my Celtics did finish with the same sim record but due to those crappy losses to the Magic i'm now not 2.5 games behind the 8th playoff spot (and 3 games behind the Magic at #7) but 3.5 behind #8 (and a full 6 games behind the Magic still at #7). AAARRGH !!!
And second, for whatever reason my guy Lenard was NOT INVITED to the Allstar game this time. I mean can anyone explain this ???

(well, at least the East swept the crappy West this time winning all three All Star Weekend contests and my soph Escamilla still was part of the winning Sophomore team, so it's not all bad...)
 :lol:

huh did i miss something? on day 68 emeka played at pf  sammy had his second injury and you lost after that day 69 emeka played C

if i remember right there is no change during a sim allowed  :roll:

thanks for the answer and the good work you did i wish a merry christmas.

during sim?

celtics- Lenard should at least play for .50 team to make the all star.

 :)

I was exactly 2 games better during the first sim, way below .500 and he still made the AllStar team. And there was Trevor Wells from the last place Knicks on the East squad too ...
 :?:

Yea, I was only 1 game out the first time the sim was simmed, the second time around i'm 6 games out of the 8th spot, don't like it but hey i'd rather have that happen then have to lose the league

Well that really sucks. Oh well.

If you would like to run the sim, I will allow you to update your lineup when an injury occurs.  Deal?

Jesus christ.  Everything I do gets put up under a microscope.  One of your guys improves in a TC, people claim that you're cheating.  Meanwhile Ben Gordon and Shaun Livigingston turn from scrubs to beasts, nobody says a peep.  You "reach" and draft Lincoln Lord over Arbogast, and people say you must be looking at the ratings, even though you spelled out your reasoning entirely.  You make a good trade and people say you're looking at players ratings.

Let me ask you this.  Would I have spent the MANY HOURS on the stats program if I would simply look at the ratings?  Would I continue to tabulate stats in excel, convert them manually to mysql commands, and update the database?  The whole point of the stats endeavor is so that you can get a better feel on a players abilities (particularly defensive) than what is represented on the ratings.  If I would cheat and simply check the real ratings within FBB, would I have spent the time to do so?  Would I have allowed other people access to stats?  Of course not.  That stats program that you guys used took me probably over 25 HOURS of coding to setup.  It takes me probably an hour after each sim to update it.  Now why would I do that if I was checking player ratings in FBB.  I WOULDN'T.

But every friggin thing you do gets put under a microscope.  The commish never has good training camps, he always cheats.  The commish never makes good trades, he always cheats.  Whenever you go on a winning streak, you're fixing the results.  I am about to break up my team for the sole reason that people think I can't be this good without cheating.

I must say it sucks being the commish.

I always beat you in regular season but playoffs is a different story.

Well, the good news for the Hornets is that the Knicks had bad news. What's that thing called german speakers? Shadenfreund?

Nets no problem whatsoever. No one accused you of anything. We all know it takes alot of time and work to get this league running. Changing DC during sim is not a cheating, it's a luxury. Luxury that you certanly deserve.

No problem, let's move on...  :cheers:  :tup:

No, he didn't "accuse" me of anything.  He just felt like bringing it up.

There are just some people who like to be on you about every little thing.

The fact of the matter is it's no fun to win when you're the commish.  Not in the regular season or in the playoffs, because you will always get people who think it's illegitimate.  Whether it be posts that "imply" things, post that flat out call you out, or through pm's (and I've gotten all kinds of them, both accusations and pm's like "boy, it must be nice to have the benefit of being the commish").

It's old.  It's unfortunate, because I haven't found another sim league I like that isn't filled with 14 year olds, or that doesn't always have vacancies, or that is structured at all.  But the most fun I've had with FBB was the first year I was the NuggetsGM, because I was able to win and not always get accused.

hey, in more good news, Shaun was AS-MVP. Take that Yao and Dwight!  :P

I have an idea then. Let's get rid of the people that think it's illegitimate. THey have no right to be in this league.

Ya know what?  NetsGM has made a tremendous amount of moves to build a winner.  Plain and Simple.

It would be better if everybody just stopped bringing up every little thing.

Deal with your team, and thank the commish for doing such a damn good job.

Guys, I don't need rallying cries nor do I need condemnations coming down from posters about other posters.  It's not the time nor place.  I'm just venting, for the most part ignore me.

Well,  sure cannot complain about the re-sim.
team amde a complete turnaround this sim, going 12-1, much better then the 6-7 sim.

Part of the difference was Don Ruffin not getting injured, the rest was pure luck.

Ruffin had a triple double, with 11 pts, 14 rebs, and 10 blocks against the Nets.

Lucky SOB.

 :)

Well that sucks.  I lost three games and took a big dive in the standings.  Boo.

Don't worry bods, a commish is under the microsocope everywhere.

As much as i find the question from PacersGM is legitimate, I believe you answer is legitimate. I don't have any problem with that.

And as i wrote earlier, your Nets NOT winning this league for such a long period shows more of your integrity than anything else ...

Waaaa!!!!! Because of the re-sim of the all-star game, my rook didn't make it..