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50761.1
Date: 9/19/2008 2:03:56 PM
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When does it becomes "useless" to train a certain player?

I know that you shouldn't bother training a 32 year old... but
is a 22-23 y/o ok? or a 25 y/o with MVP potential?

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50761.2 in reply to 50761.1
Date: 9/19/2008 4:20:37 PM
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potential only points to when improvement stops all together. skills can only get so high. but age by itself points to when the trainee starts to slow down in their progress. i believe 24 is around the age when players start to slow down in training.

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50761.3 in reply to 50761.2
Date: 9/19/2008 8:29:52 PM
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you mean really slow to shoe improvement

hahahaha

in the nba players who reach late 20's to 31 years old get to be in their prime

wherein here if you reach 25-28 thats their prime hahaha ( its just me )

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50761.4 in reply to 50761.3
Date: 9/19/2008 9:24:02 PM
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i haven't seen 29-32 year old players with Garvez's skill set yet...

i wonder how he would do by then...


-drools-

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50761.5 in reply to 50761.3
Date: 9/19/2008 9:24:05 PM
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Far as I know improvement never stops altogether, just slows down severely.

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50761.6 in reply to 50761.5
Date: 9/20/2008 3:22:51 AM
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this is so true

but still you couldnt carry yourself in a way to increase your level of play and guess what every year whether he improves or not his salary increases

anyways cool! bring in the rooks

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50761.7 in reply to 50761.1
Date: 9/20/2008 9:19:39 PM
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21yo players train half as fast as 19yo players.

Potential is not a cap. It slows down the training speed of a skill after it passes the potential point. However it is still possible to train the player past this point.

Once a player reaches 25 they are reaching the really slow training times and they should be past their potential then in most skills.

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50761.9 in reply to 50761.7
Date: 9/20/2008 9:48:40 PM
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21yo players train half as fast as 19yo players.


I don't believe this is the case in the least.

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50761.10 in reply to 50761.8
Date: 9/21/2008 12:34:45 AM
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When talking about age I was answering a separate question, I did not mean potential was related to age.


I remember Charles definitely saying that 18 and 19 year old players train twice as fast as 21 year olds. This was said back in season 3 when we had the training speed increased (thus increasing salaries) to balance the excess money in the BB economy.

In my experience once a player hits 21 they start decreasing in pops in comparison to the 18 year olds. I have a cruddy 19 year old which I train in the same position as my best player who is 21. Training a single skill with both players getting 48mins my 21 year old takes at least 2 weeks more to go up a single level. My 19 year old is also the wrong height...

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