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Sounds like the OKC of 2 years ago. Young and athletic rebounders.
I would tend to think you need to add a veteran with strong experience to your mix.
Also I favor drafting my prospects over buying them. Just my opinion.

Theres not a lot of point in having more then six 18 year olds trainees. Spreading training across all those players will be very inefficient and your team will have trouble developing. Its possible to develop good players this way but you would have to choose the best players and concentrate on them.

I have wanted to do this for about three seasons, but always find some reason to keep my present team. I have a slightly different plan, which involves a lot of team training, but I say go for it. Keep good records of your team's progress and let us know how it goes.

thanks do you think i should document the process through this thread maybe?
any ideas on how i should show progress etc etc?

This can't be efficient, this can't be effective. I fear you'll show a waning interest after 3-4 weeks with extremely limited pops (or literally no pops if you do train big man skills on these players). I don't see how it'd be worth it.

I think you're new enough that you're still on your grace period (the period of time when you have freedom to make roster moves with no negative effect on your percentage return on player sales) so if I were you, I'd trim down your trainee total to 4 and buy 2 higher quality trainees for a total of 6. 2 position training is very effective. You still have the intriguing idea of buying small players with solid secondary skills, so there's still a uniqueness and experimental process with it.

The only documented team training in the training speed analysis thread (78242.1) is:

One on One

(78242.4)
Trains DV @ 4 weeks (3 if skill is very low)
Trains HN @ 4-5 weeks
Trains IS @ 14-16 weeks
Trains JS @ 14-16 weeks

I don't know how accurate that is, but it appears reasonable, and that's 4-5 weeks for a single DRV/HND pop and 14-16 weeks for a single IS/JS pop on a player. You must also consider that training slows with age. I'm no one-on-one aficionado as it is, but you couldn't even pay me to train that way.

Last edited by Stajan at 11/8/2010 2:29:17 AM

Interesting idea, but the biggest problem is that it will be very hard to train so many people at the same time. But yes, you could try it.

Another thing you might run into though is the potential of your players. I see some stars and starters there, who won't fit in your plan. You say you want to train them till they are 30. These players will be capped much sooner, so you'll either have to sell them at some point or change your training regime (or be satisfied with really slow pops due to the cap).

This will never work, as your opponents will outrebound you with much better C/PFs, plus the skills of your current players are too low to be worth training anyway - you will be stuck with 23 year old players with ~5k salaries in 5 seasons if you follow your plan.

You wont have decent shooters and passers for a RnG-offense too...

For the first three seasons that I played BB, I trained team training and 3 position training A LOT. Not all the time, but far more often than is perceived to be "the way" to go about training. I don't remember very well, but it certainly didn't take 16 weeks for my players to pop in skills. You are in d. IV and there are 5 bots in your league- 2 in your conference and 3 in the other with a couple more likely to go bot soon. You most certainly aren't going to promote this season and probably not next either, so why not try a new approach. If it is fun for you, then who cares if it is the most efficient? If it turns out you would rather go down a more traditional road, it's not like anybody is going to make you stay the course.

i agree with almost all the people here

it is a fun and interesting idee and we would all want to hear about it

i agree with others too that say that you wont make a lot off progress with this approach.

im sick of reading about the same cookie cutter teams all day

could you please try explain more what cookie cutter teams are? i chat quite a bit with several different people (that take the team seriously) and not one has the same opinion on about how to train players, how the GE works etc

I also have been looking at high end guards. and i bought two. there were so many different trained players available that i just bought two i liked and got a deal for. there were so many different guards with so many different skill sets. it was really confusing.

you are right, there are teams with players like ID 20, IS, 20, RB 20 and SB 20 and the rest all atrocious skills, quite a few too, but there are many teams out there too with fun players.

i dont want to get into whether this is a good player or not. because than we get a huge useless discussion because everyone has a different opinion. but this is not a cookie cutter player and there are loads and loads like him out there...

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/8944017/overview.aspx