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About a week ago, I saw a thread in which it was being discussed whether there should be "Once in a generation" draftees that have salaries in the 5 to 7k range. It's not the best idea, but some rookies emerge as stars after a while, don't they? Why not have a D-League, where you could send your rook, and have him adjust to being a pro? I'm not saying it should be some "auto train" thing, but at least something that could make the rookie a little better equipped for the big leagues. Some rookies are disappointments, and so you send him down to the D-League, have him play a couple games, and when he comes back, he can finally stop riding the bench! How about it?

Poll:  Should there be a D-League in BB?

I think one could make a point of creating a D-League where only U-21 maybe U-23 players or players with salaries up to xxk could play. That way we could train our rookies from scrub to borderline useless and then have them join the pros.

Also structuring the leagues would be pretty complicated, regional leagues would be the best way to go - splitting up the game into two worlds... I don't know.

What do you mean by "have him play a couple games, and when he comes back, he can finally stop riding the bench!"? Like ten mystery pops in four weeks or so? A magical boost? I would not like that.

I haven't planned it all out yet. Perhaps a game shape boost that lasts a while? Mystery pops is a big no-no, since training is one of the big aspects of the game. I'm not completely against it either though, seeing as how the D-League is meant for progress. Maybe once you bring back a rookie from the D-League, he plays higher than his advertised skills? Essentially, the D-League is a place where you send your rooks or trainees. When they come back, they're able to make a bigger impact on your team's success. In what way, however, is a tough question.

I'm not sure how exactly I feel about this but it kind of just reminds me of scrimmages. You tend to train your young players in scrimmages and eventually when they are good enough you begin playing them and giving them minutes in league play. Or at least I think that is how it works for most managers.

i thought of it as a place to send scrubby guys, and they get maybe 25% training speed of normal training, in some randomized kinda way (cause face it, guys in D-leagues either never really make it pro, or turn out all kinds of interesting)...

Somewhere I'd send allstar potential kinda guys that are home-grown, but I'd rather not cut for cutting's sake (merchandise profit)

Danny Green, Marcin Gortat, and Dorell Wright emerged from the D-League and had sucessful careers. Anyways, thats the general idea of it, send scrubby guys, recieve less scrubby guys.

There are actually quite a few good threads in the suggestions forum that are around possible solutions for a D-League.

The idea has been thrown about previously quite a bit.

In general, the idea was that it would solve a few different 'problems' that currently exist with BB.

a) Draft picks - 75% of picks get fired/sold straight away, if not more. The idea of a D-league would help provide some level of interest with draft picks.
b) Training of draft picks - as above with point a), but obviously with a training component. Who knew that Benchwarmer potential players could get trained!
c) Mid-high level young players - This is the point you made originally, $5k-$10k salary young guys who could come into certain leagues and make an impact straight away.

It is a shame we don't have draftee's who are able to be star's straight away, because thats what the NBA is like, as seen by this year's NBA picks who are starting 5 on some teams. The unfortunately reality is that if we had rookies starting on teams in Div I leagues, it would just ruin the game and a lot of the fundamentals of training etc etc but i think this is obvious to most people.

So yer look im all for it. How i imagine that it would work would be some kind of D-league where, you can just send players and, they play games and get some kind of training. and thats it. No need for setting lineup's or anything like that, these games wouldn't be games that you would manage. Heck your guys would probably play with other teams D-league nominee's.......
It's like an extension of the box score that you get whilst scouting them. You could just nominate players to play in D-league each week ... which makes them unavailable for league and scrimmage - and you get a box score and they get random training. (full 48 mins). Maybe there needs to be a small cost associated with this, or maybe you need to nominate a player for 3 weeks at a time or something like that.

I think the concept should be simple - no game engine interaction, and it should try to solve the above listed problems.

Very close voting 14-13-8 right now. It isn't going to happen with such a split opinion.

Technically, it's 22-13, since the 8 represents people who think it's a good idea, but it needs some changes. I still doubt it'll affect the game though.

It is good idea mate. I kinda like it!:)

Voting right now is 23-16-11, because I accidentally clicked 'Nay' instead of 'Yay'.