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While I agree it's a valid alternative, I don't totally agree with your pro's and con's.

While an 18-yo trained in his primaries is better suited at playing league games, that difference isn't making a difference in his market value. People are not paying 500k for a 19 year old MVP to just play league games. The people paying the price you get either way, are people that are going to train him. I don't think his value will rise because he can play league games better. If anything, I think his value will rise when training secondaries because teams don't have to train him out of position that much, so he'll be better in league games.

A difference in our take is that you suggest to sell after 1 season. I was thinking more of a 3-5 season window, in which he'll have a reasonable salary when trained in secondaries.

If you intend to sell him after 1 season, training primaries is a good thing to do. If his secondaries aren't terrible, people don't mind him being trained just in the primaries, and it will increase his value for sure. If you intend to sell him after 3-5 season, it's better to start training secondaries first, because after 3-5 seasons people cannot really train secondaries anymore, and by then he'll have lost potential value.

just an example to show how training bigmen and promoting can go hand in hand.

I have been training two big men prospects for 3-4 seasons now. i trained insideskills for the first season because i intended to draft a SF trainee in the following offseason so i could train them all together.

as a result i had two 19year olds with insideskills close to 10, increasing secondaries and a salary between 5k and 10k.

at this time i played in league IV. so it didn't really matter if they were good players or not, but last season i promoted and now after i almost finished training them secondaries, i am very glad that they have IS ID and REB around 10 (well at the moment they have almost everyskill at 10). this way they can be useful in the U21 as well as at the C or PF position in league III where I continue to train them in 1on1 and insideskills.

edit: to be honest, if i trained only secondaries by now i would also be training insideskills and maybe they would be as useful as they are now, but the difference is, that while training them on an offposition (PG) for the last three seasons i could use them fairly well as PF and SF in the playoffs while training 1on1.

Last edited by jonte at 7/31/2014 4:07:40 AM

I think it all depends on your plan and ability to compete. If you plan to train secondaries at some point, you have to decide when is the best time. For training purposes, the earlier the better because the later the longer it takes. As for league games, it depends. Say you want 2 seasons of secondary training, I think it would be better to have it early in their career because they're not good in league games anyway. If you wait with it after 2 seasons, you'll have a 15k center playing PG who could otherwise help your team. If you would have mainly secondaries with some ID every now and then, you'll have a servicable player (assuming IS is trained through 1v1 and some ID is mixed in), and you'll have trained secondaries faster, and kept salary lower.

A difference in our take is that you suggest to sell after 1 season. I was thinking more of a 3-5 season window, in which he'll have a reasonable salary when trained in secondaries.

yer sorry, i think i may have walked into suggesting that he sells him after one season - i was just using 1 season of growth as the example

my advice isnt to sell after 1 season. so yer sorry for the confusion - i used too many hypotheticals without clarifying.

Hey mate :)

I don't agree with few things about your build. First off, he is starting with low JS, so I would build him as a center, not PF. It would waste too much time to bring up JS.

Second, I don't like the 16/16/14/10 build. In my opinion, rebounding needs to be the highest skill for centers. Also, he should think about higher shotblocking, especially since they decreased the cost of it recently.

Also, he should think about higher shotblocking, especially since they decreased the cost of it recently.

OMG totally agree. hooray for you

he is starting with low JS, so I would build him as a center, not PF. It would waste too much time to bring up JS.

and agree again.

Second, I don't like the 16/16/14/10 build

wait, are you reading my mind?
yer i agree. less IS, more driving. 16ID is probably ok IMO, but more SB than 10. Sacrifice ID 1 or 2 points for extra SB. id like to see SB at 15 personally

Thank you sir! Obviously, I think you're right too :)

Hey Nightmare, always enjoy reading your posts :)

I'm interested in your opinion on REB for big men. Although Wolph's ramblings were unreadable and tiresome, I bought into his REB philosophy. He often claimed that rebounding is the most important skill for a C/PF, and I later started noticing that my tranee with somewhat lower rebounding did slightly worse in matches.

Basically:
1. Ratings win matches
2. REB may have the biggest influence on C ratings(possibly less for PF).
Conclusion: Cs need Reb.

I will try serching the TL to see about high REB centers ratings, compared to low REB centers ratings.