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I registered to BB yesterday and I fell in love with the game. I am a basketball player currently and I'm a basketball fanatic. Read the Novice guide and the game manual and feel like I'm in great shape to start with my team. Just have a few questions, hope they can be answered.

1. Does anyone have an draft strategies that I could use for the season, I don't want to go into the draft season without any examples or info and do anything reckless. If you do you can reply it on this thread.

2. Can I get regulated to down from the league I am now?

3. I 300,000 dollars right now, what level trainer do you think I should purchase in the TL?

NOTE: I am 3-11 and with the games left I don't think my team is going to get anyone else. I stand 13th overall in my league. I only have 1 prospect who is my best player.



Last edited by Coach Bastien at 10/16/2012 5:32:55 PM

Quite honestly i think you should just tank this season because your going to most likely relegate from the league that you are in right now because you are simply not at that skill level yet. The only difference is if you tank you should get a higher draft pick which could be huge in the progression of your team.
As for the draft strategy i would use 10 points to get a scouting combine (It tells you all the heights and ages of the players) Then from there I would try to find players with heights 6'10" or above who are 18. (DO NOT TRY TO DRAFT A 19 YEAR OLD). This way at the start of next season you could probably have an 18 year old big man to train and a 20 year old big man to train. For the draft you want to try to find a player with at least a 5 ball Star rating and a 3 ball Potential. If other people want to give you more advice on the draft though they can.
For the 300k that you have right now, I would at least 200k of it on your arena (You'll be thankful you did later into the game because it gives you a huge advantage over the other V. and IV. league teams with tiny arenas because you'll be making a lot more money than them a week). The other 100k you should try to find two-three 7k-12k players with ages under 32 because those three players could easily be enough to get you out of V. league if you do relegate and give you time to train your rookie from the draft if you get one along with your 19 year old trainee (who will be 20 next season). I hope this helps i hope i wasn't too confusing

E.B.W.

I dont know if they still relegate you down to D.VI or not, but by basic management of your team you should fall into 6th or 7th, and you'll still likely get a good draftee. I don't like starting just 2 guys and forfeiting games, thats a lame way to play.

I'll answer #1 and #3 together by answering #3.

1) I am assuming Marlow's skillset is actually normal. If you want to mail it to me or post it i can provide you more accurate advice. Assuming he is worth training, you may wish to pick up an advanced level trainer. If he has a 1 or 2 in OD or multiple perimeter player areas (JS, OD, HA, PA, DR..... Jump Range is less dire), then my advice to you would be to TL him and just float by with the guys you have and save up money. If you do that, then spend at least 200-250k on your arena, getting yourself more potential revenue per game. If you feel he is worth it, then step 2. otherwise step 4.

2) Buy an advanced trainer. Theres a fancy calculator on one of the forums somewhere, but long story short is look for a guy with decently low salary thats getting little bid action. A guy getting bid around 90-100k for you right now wont be worth it. those guys are usally the 10k weekly-13k weekly salary advanced trainers. If you can land a 15k salary guy for 1k, might be more worth it to you.

3) Get on the transfer list and start scouting out some 18 year olds that are also either PF's or C's. You'll want a 2nd prospect to develop alongside your primary prospect. Stay patient, and look for guys that are roughly 3500 in salary. For inside guys secondaries, i'd look for guys that are decent in OD and HA. You shouldn't try and grab the 5.5k salary HOf potential guy that costs 250k, you will eventually find one that has a 10k-40k bid. You MAY consider finding someone with the same weakness as you current PF. That would allow you to train both side by side in the same thing, allowing for both to become quality bigs.

4) If you have any less than 200k because of transfers, then you've kinda failed on that front. But anyways, spend about 85-90% of your remaining balance on an arena upgrade. This will allow you to take on more weekly salary and generate more dollars for future expansions, player purchases, staff purchases, etc, etc.

5) About training: I'll address this later tonight or let someone else do it. As i said initially, it would help if i knew what your current prospect has.

6) About draft scouting: Go for maximum points. They do roll over. you can probably use group demonstration and select the best talents from that pool. Be wary of the foul totals however, guys that foul a lot there will foul a lot here, and those guys are very hard to train and are generally less useful. Anyone with less than 3 talent and less than 3 potential is typically worthless to develop. I've seen a few people with exceptions. You'r looking mostly for 3/5, 4/4, 5/3, 5/4, 4/5, or the epic 5/5

Last edited by FuriousSK at 10/16/2012 9:02:17 PM

Good Advice man! You explained drafting about 10X better than i ever could haha

Thnx for advice anyone else willing to help me?

First, i didn't notice you were in a D.IV team. so yes you can relegate to D.V, and it's not a huge issue.

Alright, so the standard play for developing a single talent is to move the player around to where the training is. So if you wanted to work on OD for example, you would switch it to 'pressure' in the training screen, and keep it on PG, then play a player out of position during games and/or scrims until he gets 48 minutes at the position. The easiest way to get 48 minutes is to put that player in at all 3 stages of the lineup card as follows

PG: Major / Major / Major
SG: Junk A / Junk B / Junk B
SF: Junk C / Junk D / Junk D
etc, etc. its best to single position train as opposed to going PG/SG type training areas if you only have the 1 guy worth it.

remember that game shape is better at a number other than 48.

After seeing Major Marlow in the mail you sent me, i will go ahead and alert everyone to the fact that you got quite lucky, and this guy is about as good as it gets for a random starting player, even if he's 19. I think you are safe to train 2 IS 4 ID in the remaining 6 this season. Start with the ID since thats the weakest of the three. Then really you are safe to rotate between IS, ID, & RB for another season. Which just means something like 5 5 and 4 reb. After that, really you get to choose which secondaries you think could do with a little more work. Probably passing for a few pop's, driving, etc.

I think you are better to just ask publicly for advice on him because i am pretty meh when it comes to training good, but from a starting point he doesn't have a huge flaw.

Last edited by FuriousSK at 10/17/2012 12:56:47 AM

I would train Marlow in outside skills only this season, this will give him better build efficiency and maximize his value to you going forward. It's easier for you to train him out of position now than it will ever be in the future and this will make him cost you less in salary next season.

If you haven't already got an advanced trainer, don't. I think basic is probably best for you, and both atrocious and competent are better than advanced. They cost too much money and won't improve your players much faster.

I would increase your lower tier and courtside prices by a small amount.

As soon as next season hits start scouring the TL for players age 29-32 in the 6-12k salary range with high secondary skills.

if he's not to get an advanced trainer, might as well just tell him to sell.

if he's not to get an advanced trainer, might as well just tell him to sell.

That's ridiculous. I've made plenty of money off training players and I've never carried better than basic. The difference is 5-10% max and it would cost three times as much as his most expensive player.

Edit: here's a link for further reading (221642.1)

Last edited by w_alloy at 10/17/2012 1:43:53 AM

I disagree with you completely. Just because he doesn't have an advance trainer doesn't mean he won't get tons of pops with a basic trainer. Plus since he is in a lower league and newish to the game, a basic trainer is fine and will get the job done for now. It's not like he has an 18 year old All Time Great rookie that needs a really good trainer. He just needs a trainer that can get his dude some better skills so he can use him in an IV. league as a starter in my opinion.