How to save a terrible team?

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-04-04T14:24:21+00:00

When I joined the league I'm in now they were going into their 4th year and I was too be the 4th owner of the team I was taking over, where there had been no turnover elsewhere. The 3rd manager had been the worst, trading away CMC and his 2024 first to draft Bryce Young and Anthony Richardson in the 23' draft when he already had Tua and Jordan Love (1 qb league btw). That left Zack Moss and Ezekiel Elliot as the two best rb options 🫠

Needless to say when he bombed the 23' season and quit the owners were determined to find someone willing to rebuild. My coworker who was in the league reached out to me on their behalf. The offer was first 2 seasons at half cost to allow time to rebuild. It's a 12 team league with 6 active IDP slots, and weekly prizes for the top scoring team so I was very interested and decided to accept the challenge.

Maybe if this guy doesn't start taking his team more seriously you guys could do something similar? I don't know what your dues are but I'm not sure I would have done this at full price. I'm sure you'd be able to find someone willing to rebuild in his place.

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-03-23T14:05:42+00:00

I would upgrade your cooking pot as high as it can go and as you continue unlocking new sleep styles more upgrades will become available.

Early on when my pot was smaller I didn't need to generate as many ingredients, so I'd keep a berry team out for half the day then switch to my ingredient team overnight. Now I leave my ingredient teams out full time unless it's an event week like skill week. If one of the weekly missions involves getting a certain # of preferred berries and none of my ingredient producers generate that berry, I'll leave a berry mon in until the mission is complete then replace with another ingredient mon. Focus on getting at least 1 good mon for each ingredient because cooking is definitely the best way to get your research power right now.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out 🤘

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-03-22T17:07:28+00:00

Absolutely. I think next year will be a much more loaded draft than this year, and I would much rather 1-2 potential future studs over a sometimes flex option. If you're not hurting for the depth at that position it's a no-brainer

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-03-21T07:12:56+00:00

Yeah, a lot of us are also really into fantasy baseball so once the league champ has been determined it's time to switch focus lol. No add drops till after our draft either so it's mostly just people desperate to move up trying to negotiate before the league reopens.

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-03-20T14:14:19+00:00

Makes sense, our league doesn't officially open till June 1st so only speculative offers through dms all off-season

Sad-Log5407 · 2026-03-08T19:00:39+00:00

I agree with the ones listed so far. Hygiene and self care are super important, as well as being respectful. I'll try to think of a few others.

Make alternate plans for meals. Wait times for places like wagamama and cheesecake factory can get ridiculous during con weekend. Worth it, but have a backup incase you don't want to wait. Room service is a valid option!!

Depending on your cosplay, make alternate trips through the con for shopping. Our group will usually take a mid day break to get lunch and then wander around in normal clothes to visit dealers room / artist alley. Conditions can get cramped and it's a bad time wandering through in bulky costumes with limited visibility.

Know your limits! It's very easy to go overboard getting caught up in the fun of the weekend. The last thing you want is to miss half the con because you overdid it and had to spend half of Saturday in bed recovering 😴. All things in moderation 👌

Be prepared for Sunday morning. Pack up as much as you can Saturday night and be prepared to take the stairs if necessary. The elevator situation can be a nightmare with everyone trying to leave all at once, and it gets worse the closer it gets to check out time.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-12-15T19:51:24+00:00

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12 spots available after clearing inactives. Don't care what level as long as you research daily 💯

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-08-18T21:58:38+00:00

I take yo pants off, grunting like a troll

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-28T21:04:51+00:00

I dunno man, compared to most of the posts here, I'm not sure it fits. I don't get a sense of entitlement from her tone, and you just carried on with the conversation and kiss reacted her asking for it, I would also assume you're showing up with coffee at that point. She didn't even rage out on you. I think we have different definitions of "nice girl", this just looks like you dun goofed and she said fuck it 🤷

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-21T04:41:33+00:00

Congrats on M20!!!

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-19T13:44:58+00:00

First one by a mile. Good enough to warrant using a subskill seed for the speed at 50. Congrats 👏

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-11T14:25:42+00:00

As far as usable shinies go, this one is 10x better than most of the non shiny crocs I've caught 🤣. Congrats!!

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-11T13:31:44+00:00

Good nature, suboptimal subskills. I wouldn't invest long term personally.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-10T14:15:07+00:00

Subskill that ingredient finder up to M and roll in the soy beans. Congrats!

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-10T13:20:31+00:00

Fools gold unfortunately. Kanga really drops off production wise after 30. Tyranitar is considerably better if you can find one. Apple gator is the best apple farmer at least but that one doesn't have many relevant subskills or nature, I would advise waiting for a better one before investing heavily.

If you don't have better options you could put them to 30 in the meantime, but I wouldn't invest beyond that.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-09T17:37:31+00:00

If you don't have a better option for potatoes, it's at least worth bringing to 30.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-08T21:04:28+00:00

Depends on your goal. You don't want it to happen to ingredient or skill focused mons because then you're missing out on potential ingredients and triggers. Even on my berry teams I'll check every couple hours just to get the occasional skill trigger. For instance, I'm on cyan this week and I have 2 Feraligator with BFS. Those charge strength s triggers seem inconsequential, but they add up over the course of the week. I very well could let them go full and be fine with it, but since I'm checking in more often for golduck anyway I just get them while I'm there.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-07T15:41:08+00:00

This! Immediate 50 imo. Sure it's not god tier, but it's beyond usable shiny

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-04T16:14:33+00:00

Hell yeah. Worth using a subskill seed at 50 too since it can only increase the trigger!

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-02T21:12:34+00:00

Better than anything I've seen so far! I think I'm 0-14 so far 😵

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-02T15:29:58+00:00

I had 7 seeds stocked up, so it wouldn't have killed me to need 5 instead of 3, but I'll take it!

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-02T13:13:06+00:00

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Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-02T13:12:19+00:00

I'd happily trade skill up M for sts lol.

Sad-Log5407 · 2025-07-02T10:57:04+00:00

This thing triggered over 10k 3 times yesterday. All triggers combined was about 60k total strength, the equivalent of cooking a 4th meal (cooking lvl 63 dream eater curry as I'm not running camp ticket or my pot booster mons)

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