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there was a huge 4 page debate spawned after i said that 18 year olds are worth buying right now. You just have to understand you're not going to get a product capable of winning any large scale tourney, micronation or not. Then as tough said they get flooded out in the market early next year, but even with a flooded market primary talents are going to be far too expensive for you to grab the upper tier talent. You'll have to choose from guys who got the 4/4, 3/4, and 2/5 draft ratings mostly given that you are building stadium, and at least a handful of bigger teams i've seen have claimed to save 1mil+ for a new trainee that is probably well over what you can afford right now.

Whether or not a 32 year old works out is dependent on two things to me. Can he be a two-way player, or can he dominate in his area of the court. With your guy, he's not really a dominant inside threat, and while he has good secondaries in handling and passing his 1 in OD kills any chance to defend any shot taken outside. A two way defensive player needs 10+ in ID and 7+ in OD for a D.IV US team. I think your nation signals that an average D.II team should have this. If he's inside only, probably shoot towards a 12 rating when possible. Sometimes to find them cheap, you have to look a bit older than 31. Just set a max budget of around 30-50k for a veteran, and wait for one to be undervalued, if you so desire to do a bit better.

Nice post. I agree with almost everything except for:

A good rule of thumb is if you add all of the 10 main skills (people call this "total skill points" or TSP). An average 18yo will start with 35.

I think 35 is a little low, even for an average 18-yr-old. With that few points, you are a year behind training already. Might as well use the money saved from not training that guy for a year and paying his trainer and put it into a 19-yr-old with better skills.

I read this years ago and have roughly followed this for getting trainees:

age TSP
 18  60
 19  70
 20  80
 21  90

Those are minimums and include all 12 skills tho.

I think you're right, Kumiko.

I did my math wrong. 18yo's have starting skills between 1-7, assuming they're evenly distributed, the average player would start out (ignoring STA/FT) with 40 TSP - not 35. Oops! And I'm advocating that any trainee you buy ought to be above average. If you consider all 12 skills, 48 TSP would be "average." Your 60 threshold means every skill would be 1 better than "average." I like that as a benchmark.

It's good to know, also, that the further above 48 TSP (including FT/STA) you go, the fewer players have been generated. And the highest TSP an 18yo could have be would be 84. That can give you some perspective on the market and where a player you're considering buying is.

Last edited by rhyminsimon at 11/7/2012 3:51:18 PM

Thanx all!!! It's really cool you guys like to help!
From what I read... the game got more complicated... but way more interesting!!! Gracias

no prob.........as i said in the bb mail earlier train your trainee in HA and you will be fine ;)

just hit us up and anyone is happy to help