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Hi everybody,

I am not the person who starts crying or complaining very fast. But I am almost sure that in the last weeks something went wrong with my training. I had two trainings in OD and one training in ID without a single pop in any skill. I know that it just can be coincidence but I want to be sure about this. Therefore it would be nice, if someone could have a look at this. Btw... I had two skilldowns in this period, looks like fun? - It isn't really funny at all.

In the first week (training was ID for C/PF) I expected one pop and didn't get it and I don't really have a problem with this. Due to his high skills he probably have to suffer more with the softcap than I expected. I just mention this training, to give you a complete view of my situation.

In the second and third week I trained pressure for PG and SG and all the players are definitely below the softcap. I will give you their minutes, age and height of these 2 weeks.

Player 1 (6'2", 18 years): Week 1: 47 minutes Week 2: 48 minutes
Player 2 (6'1", 18 years): Week 1: 37 minutes Week 2: 48 minutes
Player 3 (6'6", 22 years): Week 1: >48 min Week 2: > 48 min
Player 3 (6'8", 22 years): Week 1: >48 min Week 2: > 48 min
Player 3 (6'2", 23 years): Week 1: >48 min Week 2: > 48 min

If you only have a look at these number you could say - just bad luck! But after a friend of mine told me that his 6'2" and 18 year old player had 2 ups in OD in the last two weeks (also training pressure for PG/SG), I am not anymore sure if there is everything alright with my training.

Hopefully there is someone out there who can and will give me certainty about my training-issue. This doesn't mean that someone says, that these things could theoretically happen or that it is just coincidence or bad luck. I really would appreciate facts in this case.

Thanks in advance
Yogi


PS: my arena isn't going well either... in the last 7 days, the estimated time decreased only by 2 days but this is another topic and I am already familiar with this problem.

edit: I forgot to mention that I haven't had a single pop in any secondary skill as well

Last edited by Yoginger at 3/13/2009 7:00:35 AM

I think your friend is lieing. He can not have 2 pops in OD on one player even if his od was 1% near skill pop before he started. Did you check the training speed thread? Arena: The more you build seats the more it varies.

hi!
i have the same problem with training:
all my players are 23 and 24 y.o and my trainer is level 5.
i train j.r for 3 weeks and j.s for 2 weeks and i have only 1 pop up in j.r in 5 weeks!
all the last pop ups were 9-10 weeks ago!
i am playing from season 2 and i do not remember this long time with no pop ups!

Why should my friend lie? If you don't know a person don't accuse him/her to be a liar or something else. I know for sure that he is telling the truth, but this shouldn't be the topic in this thread so I will stop this now ;)

Last edited by Yoginger at 3/14/2009 12:43:02 PM

Why do people lie? Perhaps he needed to brag? The fact still remains the same. A player will not pop in any defence 2 weeks in a row (he can pop od one week and id the next week) <- that is 100% truth. Have you seen the both pops with your eyes? How can you be convinced he is telling the truth?

Friend said he had pops in OD which is even more bizarre. The thing you suggested, I don't think that is doable with lvl5 trainer, perhaps lvl7 trainer but I doubt it (perhaps with other skills way above ID but it's still far fetched).

So you did training ID->RB->IS->ID? or RB->IS->ID->ID?

Perhaps with perfect trainee good trainer and 1 spot training could produce it. But you still need a good sublevel on your dude + better inside overall skills in reb and IS. I have tried ID for 1 spot and I have not seen it I had a pretty good trainee for that. There is no way you can pop it twise in a row with 2 spot training.

But after a friend of mine told me that his 6'2" and 18 year old player had 2 ups in OD in the last two weeks (also training pressure for PG/SG)

I am sure this thing written above is not doable 100%!!!