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Anybody ever had any experience deliberately/purposefully draft a high starting skills player (A+) but low on potential (2 ball, 3 ball)? I'm looking at a few seasons down the road and training high potential players will not suit my policy to keep a high salary team. Most probably the highest in 2, 3 seasons will be 30k+. Or the whole roster will look like that. I know it will not be good for big games, but that is how I intend to play for the next few seasons.

Or if you were in my position, get a lower starting skills player, then train and use him, and sell him once his salary has become abit over my team's requirements and long term plans?

Maybe could share your experience drafting one intentionally with a plan in mind.

Thanks.

Last edited by Ashurri at 9/23/2011 12:31:18 PM

You are always better off with the high potential players as they give you more flexibility and sell for a lot more. If you are worried about wages then try to balance the skills. Considering how effective they are a SF will have much lower wages than a PG or a JS monster SG and a properly rounded PF will have much lower wages than a C.

Draft? No.

Buy from market? Yes.

Like others have said before me, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to deliberately choose a worse player in the draft. I imagine you would do this because you prefer to train your players for your own roster and don't want to sell. I would think you could find this type of player in the second round instead of purposefully throwing money down the drain in the first.

Now if you are talking about the player market, I have definitely done that, with my current team and previous iterations. I can get a quality starter-all star player who is ALMOST capped and finish him off how I prefer for much cheaper than I could with a similar player of much higher potential. Every team needs those 10-25k type players that come off the bench or start in special situations. I prefer to train all of my players to fit my needs for financial reasons and because it makes me enjoy this game more.

YES. Definitely.

A+ with 4 potential balls beats A- with 5 potential balls.

If plan on having more than 3 trainees then it's a no-brainer, since you will never reach his cap.

I've been training 2 positions since I started this game, now my players are well rounded and I'm beating teams who pay 3x more than me for their starting 5's salary.
I have a couple of MVP's who could just as well be perennial-allstars, it wouldn't make a difference to me because I'm not selling them.

Thanks guys. I kinda get an idea how to decide abit better now.