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Honorable mention

he must have that spezza curve on his shoes

Bears 4-1

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Hello there. I've been a GM for now more than 4 seasons (starting in mid S39) and I enjoy it so far. I would have liked to go through the draft process with my current player (Lord Karnage), but I'm glad to help my team to succeed. As you know, my last player, Niklas Lindberg, was a first gen. 701 recruited me at season 32 so I haven't been there forever. I don't know much of the league history and how it was before, my I feel petty confident to have a decent understanding of the league. We currently are in a semi crisis where TPE inflation seems to be a problem. Personally, I don't see it as a problem that much, changed have been made to fix some of it and I think it will do the work. A veteran member came back (brooks) and went with a surprising suggestions where the leagues needs something new and get fresh. It was surprising because veterans members seem very conservative these days (Victor, sterling, Smarch, Kendrick, etc.) Anyway, I'm not here to talk about that, my title might give you a hint on my next topic. Since I'm GM'ing, I already went through a rebuild and now my team is actually starting to compete to another level. So I had to go through a selling period and stack up some picks. Helsinki is in a good way to achieve the same next season. Anyway, as you know, i'm a bit of a "big head", so it wouldn't surprise you if I say that I'm pretty happy with my work so far with my team. But, even after all this work, I knew that I will have a major problem at some point. Some might call that "cap hell". What is cap hell ? Well, you have so many good players in your team that you can't fit them all under the 32M cap. There's some way to get around that (deadline deals, getting under the TPE bracket), etc. but if you already have those players in your organisation, you have a problem. So to fix this, you might have to do some cap dump as I did. I traded Kowalski and Ruutu, who both showed some inactivity at the end of their run with me. Therefore, I had to trade those 2 for a 3rd round pick (which is absolutely nothing). Imagine if those 2 would have been active again...it would have been a pain to find a way to fit all those active and good members. Here's my point, even with all the trades I have done to get my team at his current level, I came up with some major problems with the cap, so I had to make a huge step backward to fit everything. So why all those efforts ? I could be semi active and just do basic trades with no real gambles and I would have stayed with a basic team and probably under the cap. What do we really need to be a successful GM here ? Here's my opinion : "Cap space and timing" Yes, only that. Skill isn't needed. Let me explain myself. We saw how cap space and timing is the only thing needed. The Bears and the Legions had (or decided) to go through a rebuild process. The problem is, there was simply not many buyers, and by not many, I mean like 1 buyer. Therefore, the price went down rapidly and GM who acquired those players had a great bargain. I won't point fingers, but you might already think of some team who got great players for not much. Lets take place as a buyers now. As a GM, I know who is selling and who isn't. I'm speaking to those guy and trying to get a deal done...but it's simply impossible because well managed team just doesn't have cap space. So what sellers have to do ? Some player in their prime doesn't want to stay 3 years in a team that is rebuilding. We can all agree on that, therefore, the rebuilding GM is somewhat forced to trade the player (we have some notable examples here this season) and since there's not many buyers who can afford those players, average team can afford them and suddenly become contenders out of nothing. No offense to them, they have to deal with the market and GM have to take those occasion. Even if you are an average negotiator, the buying team will have, most of the time, the strong side in the negotiation because there's just other other options available. I want to create discussion here, but still, I feel that I could just scrap everything with horrible trades, not working to develop my intern prospects and just wait other GMs to do so. I just will take advantage of the market at some point in the off season and this will be enough to have a good team. This way, I could fit under the cap, get player for a cheap price and still be considered as a "good gm", and that's folks, my honest opinion. Sorry for the horrible grammar and phrase structure. I hope you guys will get my point here.

2 germans with a somalian that doesn't look good.

time to retire

I need to change slaughter to someone with a "K" name so I could say that I have the "KKK" reunited again KLOSE IT IS

Koenig Karnage Slaughter as my 3 forwards

isn't that 3AM for anyone living in vancouver ?

the title needs more lenny

finally

well done girlz

nice win girls

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where's the spiderman thread when we need it