Welcome to BuzzerBeater.
Looking at your roster, I can tell you a few things. You should always have around 11 or 12 players on your roster. This helps with something called Game Shape, which is really important in BuzzerBeater. Each week, you should try to play every player, especially the really important players on your roster, between 55-75 minutes (you can check how many minutes each player has played by clicking on the Weekly Stats section). The highest Game Shape can be is proficient (each of these adjectives also corresponds to a number and proficient is 9) and right now your players are below this. If you hold your cursor over the the player's GS you should get what level it is (hold your cursor over Jérôme Robin's Game Shape, which is pitiful, and it will say 2). Remember, 9 is the best.
As for training. Each week you set what you want to train. Click on this to see what each type of training does
(78242.1). In order to get full training, the player must play the position that is being trained for 48 minutes. When you click on Manage My Team, it will tell you how many minutes each player has gotten of training that week. A player has gotten maximum training when it says 48+ (which just means a full 48 minutes instead of like 47.75 minutes). Your best trainee is probably Jérôme Robin. Personally, I would wait until after the draft and then buy some good 18 year olds and start training them instead. A good trainee to look at getting would be an 18 year old with at least allstar potential and $3000 salary (btw salary is a rough, but relatively good measure of how good a player is). Wait until after the draft though, because if you buy an 18 year old now, after the draft they will be 19.
The Draft is confusing and difficult to prepare for well. Read the top of the draft page to understand what each thing does. You're a little late this season to be scouting, but for next season, think about saving up 10 draft points and doing the Scouting Combine. Then you can sort your draft least and just put 18 year olds at the top (you can get both 18 and 19 year olds in the draft and 19 year olds are way worse). This season, just hope to get lucky.
Yes you can only scrimmage once a week and you should rotate players because of the Game Shape stuff I mentioned.
Squad Nationalities are not very important, but they do come into play a little bit with merchandising (which is one way your team makes money). You make a little more money if your team has more players from your own country, but don't worry about this at all. It's negligible. There are no limits or requirements for nationalities.
Last edited by J Dizzle at 7/22/2011 3:21:36 AM