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i have a new team that luckily is first at my league.
i have one very good and vey young player (markovich) whom i gonna focus training on.

i need advise about:
- what sould i train?
- what trainees shoud i buy to join training?
- any other newbe advice?

This is all my opinion, not fact.

Ah, it's a very interesting situation for you as Markovich has great potential (MVP) but at a height (6'6) where it's going to be a little slower to train any skill. Great player though, nevertheless. And a SF, very popular if you can train him right.

Because of his great talent you have 2 options. One is to sell him (which may make over a $1mil) and use the money to buy more appropriate trainees. Or keep him and train him.

Your second best trainee is a center as he is the only young guy with decent potential on top. What I would consider doing is training C/PF, (so buy young tall guys with salery over 4000). At least for this season. You could just buy one good one and train one position (C) with a mixture of skills IS, ID, and rebounding. (Obviously playing Markovich in the C postion)

This will give your player Markovich the inside skills he will need as a future star SF. You should then, after that time, consider selling again or switching your training entirely to concentrate on SG/PG positions.

A good all-round SF is a fantastic asset to any team and would be worth a lot of money if you wanted to sell later on. He would probably be indispensable to your team then but it's defienatly worth the effort you may have to put in.

This is just one route you could take. If you can, get a lot of different advice and go with what you feel most comforatble with.

Good Luck!

tnx
that's one of the ways i thought of training
i have some more questions:

1. what center should i buy?
i don't have much money to spend but i wand someone that will train fast and earn me some money

2. how can i train just one player?

1. An 18 yo player with potential starter or greater( i like allstar). Look for average skills at least (maybe one medicore or inept) in IS, ID and rebounding if that's possible.
That is all really minimum i'd say. But available for less than 100k. If you can afford more, then go for it. Bear in mind that you'll be wanting a lvl3/4 trainer.

Bear in mind that in a few week you'll be getting 3 new players in the draft and i bet you'll at least get 1 good one.

2. So, it's not one player, it's one position. Centre is what i recommended til the end of the season. That would be 3 players playing 48 mins at centre each week. This will be difficult to manage so maybe just aim for 2 to obtain all 48 mins. Next season, when you have more trainees, then train 2 positions. Probably PF/C or PG/SG depending on what players you have then.

In my opinion if you're in a lower league then you don't need to buy trainees who already have a nice set of skills. Buying young players with good stats in the right places isn't a great option. The easiest way to earn a quick buck in this game is to buy a player who has *poor* stats for their position, but well rounded stats elsewhere. Let me give an example.

Say there was a 19-20 year old PF/center who has bad (1-4) in IS, Reb and ID, but good (5+) in passing, free throw, jump shooting etc with allstar potential. This sort of player can be had for a fairly cheap price, say 150k or around there. Then what you would do is over a season concentrate on training him up in the key areas (IS, ID, Reb). After a season he should have 7+ in the key areas, combine this with his other stats and you'll have a fairly young player with very well rounded stats. You can explect to get 500k+ for him on the market, so in a year that'll be quite a tidy profit.

In the lower leagues you're crazy to spend much more than this on trainees, you've got to spend on older players who can play well or you'll be in danger of setting yourself back a few years. Win now, train later.

Last edited by Soel at 1/25/2009 7:39:36 PM

yup. also a possible approach. I think this is a much better approach if you're looking to train players to keep. You'll get better players but they wont look so good (as a higher skilled in certain areas) on the TL to the kind of player you'll be selling too. This would probably be a Div.III team at best and may think that the higher skilled player is better.

Honeslty. I just learned it myself with no real mentor and i ended up training players and using them (not selling). If you look at my team, Puche Grandes, a spaniard, was a player i baught for 28k at the start. You can really train anyone (young with 4+ potential) and get good results. It's all preference.

so i decide to wait for the draft and than look for players, if i'll need them

i also liked the idea about buying players with low skills

tnx all

cool man, take it easy and good luck.

Just if you have a real chance to be promoted, go for it. It would boost your economy no matter how you would do in the higher level.

Also a good idea to cut dead wieght. I see alot of brand new teams holding on to 22-26 players. Totally not needed. Once you get your trainees set, I would suggest cutting or selling your worst players until you get down to at most 15 (12 would be my choice). You are paying all the worst players for nothing, and you are going to need that money (we all do).

I agree with chihorn. My best player when I first got my team was a 31 year old center with IS and RB of respectable and ID of average. Although for my level that was pretty darn good, his age made him extremely expendable, especially since I am in a building phase to start. I sold him and the money I got I purchased two trainees and a 24 year old SG that is pretty good for my level.

It is a marathon, not a sprint.