Tanking

[BullsGM-old]

I'm fairly new to sim ball, what is the fine line of tanking?  Obviously the Sixers, Kings have crossed that line but would something like making one of your best players be a 6th man be unethical?

[RaptorsGM]

No, it wouldn't IMO.

What the Sixers and Kings are doing is wrong, but there is no way to stop it.

Last year I semi-tanked, so I have nothing against it.

[JazzGM-old]

yeah but...i could understand for maybe the last 2 sims or something like that, but this is still a little early for that. Maybe we should run a poll or something eventually as to how we'd want to handle this.

[BullsGM-old]

For instance last year I thought about semi- tanking since the Nets and I were so close but didn't because I didn't know it was allowed or not.

[RaptorsGM]

Nets posted in the Western Conference Depth Chart forum that there will soon be some sort of rule on it.

You probably just want to wait to see the rule, then follow it

[JazzGM-old]

Nets posted in the Western Conference Depth Chart forum that there will soon be some sort of rule on it.

You probably just want to wait to see the rule, then follow it

yeah i foresaw problems coming, I had PMed him prior to this thread

[KingsGM-old]

I'm fairly new to sim ball, what is the fine line of tanking?  Obviously the Sixers, Kings have crossed that line but would something like making one of your best players be a 6th man be unethical?

not 6th man, they're on injured list..haha..look, i'm a sore loser and i hate to do this, but really that's my only chance and no, it's not too earlie. i'm 27/35, 20 games to go. even if i go 10/10 (highly doubt that) i'm still out of the playoffs. i badly need a fill at the 3rd spot or some kind of depth. lottery is my only chance

[RaptorsGM]

Or you could try to make a trade. How many have you made? 1?

[CavsGM]

I thought about tanking last year when my team was sucking, but decided just to stick with my lineup. I think it's alright for a team to tank when that's their choice.

[NetsGM]

We'll have to come up with something for definitions for what constitutes tanking.  This is ridiculous.  Thanks to JazzGM, I hadn't gotten to the DC's yet (I FINALLY finished cuts/signings and trades, still doing positional changes and dc's).

[CavsGM]

That's true. KingsGM must have the least amount of transactions for any team, if not one of the least. Doing nothing for two seasons is not the way to go if you want your team to improve.

[HornetsGM]

I think tanking is BS

Imagine this scenario: A gm doesn't feel like putting in the time to make good trades and instead decides to tank for 3 straight years. He puts the top drafted players on the IL and only comes to the board to check in and say "same" in the depth chart...

This is an extreme example, but where do you draw the line?

[KingsGM-old]

Or you could try to make a trade. How many have you made? 1?

man don't tell me about the trades, i've been shoping brad miller,webber and bibby all over the place. i've talked to some 10 or 15 GM and everybody turned my offer down. i even wanted to give miller for some kind of exp and 1 pick and it didn't work. it's not my fault nobody wants big sallary in return.

[RaptorsGM]

Or you could try to make a trade. How many have you made? 1?

man don't tell me about the trades, i've been shoping brad miller,webber and bibby all over the place. i've talked to some 10 or 15 GM and everybody turned my offer down. i even wanted to give miller for some kind of exp and 1 pick and it didn't work. it's not my fault nobody wants big sallary in return.

Kings, let me be frank with you. Your offers are very often one sided. Your sided. Other GM's don't want to make trades that hurt their team. That's the long and short of it.


And of course, it's been rehased a thousand times, but when someone offers you something and you just say "no thanks", it doesn't get a deal done.

[NetsGM]

90% of trades get nowhere.  of the remaining 10%, i'd say 90% of those get changed muiltiple times.  

It takes time.