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Lets try to make that estimate for my own draftee, Jorma Mamia, 23 years now, drafted as 18years. As you know, not possible to get history data of trainers because I haven't tracked all costs, so you can agree/disagree if you want, but I have had all the time level 6 trainer, which I change when salary hits aroung 75k - of course I will then wait week or two to find "cheap" new trainer with approriate salary / price. So I had to change trainer every third season, meaning that 2 acquisitions should be calculated so far. Average purchase price is 1M.

So trainer salary costs are around 4.68M / 6 seasons (2,25% weekly increase at level 6). And purchase costs around 2M / 6 seasons. Trainer costs should be divided for 3 trainees, so 2.22M / player / 6 seasons.

Salary data is available, so it is easy.
18years salaries - 3025/week (54TSP)
19years salaries - 5842/week
20years salaries - 8511/week
21years salaries - 14659/week
22years salaries - 24957/week
23years salaries - 48233/week (121TSP)

So salary costs total 1.473M

Cannot calculate any loss/profit due to training out of position, just focusing for training, not for success. Also not possible to calculate impact for merchandise / arena incomes (own draft, U21 games...).

In my case also salary costs are not relevant, I was paying under PSF first 5 seasons and 3 weeks. But to keep this in more general level, not going to my own situation, so player has costed me so far: 3.7M. My player is not "rare" or exceptional, so it could be possible to similar player or even better for ~4M price.

And training older players with higher salaries must be unprofitable - there are same prices often for 23/24year players who must be trained several seasons and 29 years "ready" players....



Last edited by Codemasters at 1/22/2019 10:35:15 AM

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You aren't going to get over star potential with L4 trainer.

That's how this works.

As I'm training with L4 through all my BB life, I laughed, when I saw this statement.
If L4 trainer can't get you over star, how the hell I've managed once to cap perennial all-star PG with him?
If L4 sucks, how had I already made 62 pops in 7 seasons with it? And why I was able to make 50-55 pops in similar period of time many, many times? Could you make all of this 100 TSP players with star potential?
No wonder you believe that one has to spend millions for training, if you underestimate lower level trainers that much.
If you need data (aka skillsets) of my examples, I'll put them later.