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225889.16 in reply to 225889.15
Date: 8/30/2012 11:32:29 AM
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A few of those guys had 13+ skills in some areas (hnd/drv usually) and I didn't notice a difference in drop frequency. Is there one? This needs to be studied at far greater length, since skill drops (like pops) only show when the drop is from one number range to another (e.g.13.05 to 12.96) and the decay happens across the board every week.

I'm searching the TL and I came across a 34yo who dropped in two skills last week. Yikes. I wonder if anyone's landed the vaunted quadruple-pop in the opposite direction. Considering the slow rate of decay, a triple would be pretty impressive.

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Date: 8/30/2012 4:33:02 PM
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A good way to measure yearly decline is salary drops... although it ignores less important skills, it has the advantage of factoring in sub-levels and capturing the whole year in one number. My 34 yo PF went from 26k to 22k and my 33 yo SF went from 44k to 30k.

If someone wanted to actually put some numbers on decline without a massive data collection project, one could look at a large section of old players when the salary changes over (you could use 30-31 year olds as a control to adjust for formula changes). Too bad we'd have to wait ~3 more months for this.

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225889.18 in reply to 225889.17
Date: 8/31/2012 6:57:53 AM
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Salary decline is tough, though, because salaries drop across the board every season as it is, and like you said it's influenced by certain skills at every position which have varying degrees of importance. It's still something to keep an eye on. That 14k salary drop is ridiculous, never seen anything like it.

Yeah, it would be great to collect that data while specifying if a career extension trainer was used. We could get a picture of the rate of decline, and the worth of a career extension trainer.

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225889.19 in reply to 225889.18
Date: 8/31/2012 1:37:57 PM
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A career extension trainer will limit the drops in skills to 1 or 2 drops a season period from my experience. I must note that I have seen a drop in more than 1 area only once with this type of trainer.

Last edited by BarryS at 8/31/2012 1:41:46 PM

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225889.20 in reply to 225889.19
Date: 9/2/2012 8:28:36 PM
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Buzzerbeater is more like a marathon then 100m run.
Training young players, managing gameshape & enthusiasm and expanding arena should be enough to get through lower leagues. I laugh everytime when I see some III-V div team putting all their money to one 100k+ player. They rarely bring fortune when there are no other good players in team.

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225889.21 in reply to 225889.15
Date: 5/18/2016 10:42:14 PM
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My 33 years old PG did not drop a lot of skill points. I guess his salary will be lowered from 76k to 70k approx.