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Trainer
I've heard it estimated that each trainer level leads to 5% faster training, which seems reasonable to me. Let's say that with an advanced trainer, over a 12 week season you have 3 players that each gain 8 skill pops. Let's say an atrocious trainer get 85% of the skill points and costs 15k less per week. You are then paying paying 50k per skill point, which seems like far more than one pop is worth on the transfer market for trainees that most beginning teams would have ((15k * 12)/(8 * 3 * (1-.85)) = 50k).

if you are getting 24 pops per season, are you making 1.2m in added value per season? If so, than more power to you, but I don't think these results are typical of DIV teams.

If i didnt have a pretty high level doctor the 2w injuries may have been 3-4w perhaps. Having two such players gone for such a long time is tough to handle. You'll end up losing a lot of games

Second, in my admittedly limited experience, the more balanced a team is the more likely it is to punch above its salary weight. It makes sense because of the exponential nature of skill cost: a 10k increase in salary will buy a lot more skills on a 15k player than it will on a 25k player. Now of course there are viable tactics and strategies that make certain players more important that can be quite effective, and I'm not saying your top 8 players should always have the same salary. But I think that especially for newer managers, a more balanced approach will win more games for the same salary most of the time.

I'll give you an example...a team I'm mentoring bought a 1k P.allstar trainee and sold him for 397k three seasons later (21330456). Trainer was lvl4 with 14k initial salary. Trainee had low salary because he was giving him lots of secondary training (1 on 1 for SF/PF). Maybe this will help you redo your math.

He bought another player for 1k (23055333) that 3 seasons later is worth around 400-500k. To me, training seems profitable, but only long-term.