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One of the aspects of this game is options. Most teams elect to go with the 5 backroom boy slots available (and of course today you can go higher, its just that only 5 are effective). Teams have the option too of selling those player (rather than having them become BRBs). You can also coach a player to become a BRB if you want.
One of the questions is: do we need more? The answer is....well candidly I'm not really sure what the answer is. However I'm introducing a couple possible new BRB ideas.
Currently teams have SBY players (6) that start at SL 2, QNL 0.
The proposal is that if you have a Youth Director BRB, then any SBYs you create will start at SL 2, QNL 1.
At times, and we've all done it, we might have situations where:
a) we forgot to coach an SBY or play them in a session
b) we have an APP that gets injured and unless we've coached/played them fully to that point, they run the risk of never achieving SL 10.
This BRB, by starting SBYs at a slightly higher level would prevent that from happening and gives the player a better chance to reach their potential.
A side effect I see is that teams COULD sign all 6 SBYs and then sell them at 15k each (since with that 1 QNL they'd have monetary value). Most teams however keep at least 3-4 SBYs a season so perhaps its just the 1 or 2 that could fit the above scenario. And maybe that's reason enough to make the 5th and 6th SBY cost 15k to sign IF you have a youth director?
Anyway, obviously there's some aspects to finalize. The poll is here to see if there's any traction on the idea to merit further discussion and finalize something (again if there's momentum on it; if not, it goes back in the dustbin).
Readers Comments
Doesn't do anything for me to be honest, the gain seems so small that it's not worth it
I would have found him useful last season though I don't know if I'd pictures him over the other 5 BRBs I have.
Could we make the Youth Director work like the NMR mulligan, but only if he has been on the roster for the whole season? In other words, no Week 10 conversion for this one.
I can see this being a Session -2 BRB only. Example... I sign my BRB Youth Director - I then sign all my SBYs, getting the +1 QNL bonus. I then sell my Youth Director to free up a slot for another BRB.
I like the idea, but let's talk it over some more.
Just to clarify, only players can be sold or traded, thus the BRB in this instance could not be sold/traded. So once they were assigned this role, they maintain that role until they retire as a BRB.
Based on the voting and comments we will implement this new Youth Director BRB for season 5 of U2 and 15 for U1. So the BRB will not be in play for this upcoming season and won't be an option at anytime during seasons 4/14.
The rule will be implemented in this manner:
1) The Youth Director BRB will be another BRB option
2) He will have the same aging approach as other BRBs (starts as Age I, moves to Age II, then after that is retired).
3) The Youth Director will allow UP TO 4 SBYs to start at SBY SL 2, QNL 1 (rather than the current QNL 0).
For the most part teams use no more than 4 SBYs in a season and I didn't want to see this become a "add 2 SBYs then sell 2 SBYs at 15k each". Thus only up to 4 get the QNL bonus. Of course a team will still be able to discover 6 SBYs in a season. However, once they have discovered 4, the final two will start at SL 2, QNL 0.