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Noe Jarvis (22361315) Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 3 697

DMI: 46700
Age: 19
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: proficient
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: mediocre
Driving: average ↑ Passing: proficient
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: awful
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: awful

Tunç Elidemir (19349777) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 14 513

DMI: 67400
Age: 20
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: wondrous Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: prominent Handling: average
Driving: proficient ↑ Passing: average
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: atrocious Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: mediocre

Lucas Benoît (11959864) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 8 856

DMI: 56200
Age: 25
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: proficient
Outside Def.: awful Handling: respectable
Driving: awful Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: average Free Throw: mediocre

Philip Brunner (22092037) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 158

DMI: 26700
Age: 19
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: average Handling: mediocre
Driving: average Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: awful
Experience: atrocious

Dennis Magee (10588768) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 10 030

DMI: 44400
Age: 27
Height: 6'8" / 203 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: pitiful
Driving: mediocre Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: average ↓ Free Throw: respectable

Jérémy Benoît (5829243) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 8 531

DMI: 108400
Age: 30
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: starter
Game Shape: proficient
Jump Shot: proficient Jump Range: pitiful
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: strong
Driving: average Passing: inept
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: average
Experience: average

Loh Li Mei (19948729) Center
Weekly salary: $ 9 988

DMI: 28300
Age: 20
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: average
Jump Shot: average ↑ Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: strong
Driving: atrocious Passing: strong
Inside Shot: prominent Inside Def.: prolific
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: pitiful
Experience: pitiful

Szilveszter Berényi (7529444) Shooting Guard
Weekly salary: $ 6 437

DMI: 22300
Age: 31
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: star
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: proficient
Outside Def.: average Handling: awful
Driving: mediocre Passing: average
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: pitiful ↓ Free Throw: proficient
Experience: mediocre

Boris Hastreiter (10251202) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 5 010

DMI: 25200
Age: 29
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: inept
Driving: awful Passing: awful
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: proficient Free Throw: respectable

Arthur Coremans (5164392) Center
Weekly salary: $ 6 898

DMI: 45100
Age: 34
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: inept Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: inept Handling: atrocious
Driving: awful Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: average
Experience: average

It's a good foundation for a team. I think you are wasting your time training Lo's outside skills when his rebounding in mediocre. He needs better rebounding to contribute at the D.IV level. I do really like the strong handling and passing in a big man though.

Noe and Tunc are both good trainees. I would strongly recommend training them in OD for the remainder of the season (single position) as 2-3 pops in OD will benefit you greatly in D.IV.

Your SFs, while good offensively have the potential to get chewed up defensively.

As I see it you have a bit of a dilemma. You can either focus on guards and live with Lo as your center for now but upgrade him when you get to D.IV, or you can stick with Lo and train up his rebounding for at least half a season and sacrifice the training time of your guards. I would suggest the first option and focus on your guards.

Thanks for the info.

I'm training Lo's outside skills ONLY because at this time I had some training minutes to spare and felt it would help him be a better player for me down the road. I've only trained him maybe 3 weeks all season, and gotten four pops, which I was very pleased with. But normally I just train the three players.

For the rest of this season, I'm going to single-position train Noe/Tunc/Brunner at OD, and at some point train some rebounding for one of the three that I feel is my future SF and get Lo some rebounding pops in the process.

I believe I've got a very, very good chance or promoting after this season, but now I'm thinking I don't really want to promote so I can stay one more season in Div. V and continue my player's training while having some success at the same time.

Go for promoting. I'm in the same situation and how I've hear it the money is tons better then V. plus the 150k bonus. I'm planning to promote then I'm probably going for 5th seed and then demote with a bank account of a champ for some serious account of going for and staying in Division III. play. My main trainee will be 24,25,26 at the time I get to division III. My favorite guard Stephen Yates will be sold and the rest of my aging team will be in a different country getting bad gameshape and have retirement benefits.

The money is definitely better. My team was clearly not even close to being ready for D.IV when I promoted last season; I promoted only because I was in a bot league. I did not get the season ticket holders bonus because I did not win my league; I promoted through bot cleanup because I had a 21-1 record (I lost to the only other human manager, who was in the other conference). Despite that, I still collected the promotion money and pulled $100K+ for the first several weeks and now, despite being in 7th in my conference with a 2-17 record, I'm still making 70K+ a week even though I spend $20K on the draft and my arena is only 58% full. Plus, from being in said bot league I got one awesome trainee (22091670) and one really good trainee (22091651). I'm almost certainly going to get demoted this season, but I got both those guys single-position training, am set to get another decent player in the draft, and have $1.5 million sitting in my account. Not a bad season's work if I do say so myself. Moral of the story: promote if you can even if it's premature; at worst, you can tank, stockpile huge money, AND get a good draft pick. It's kind of boring losing every game, I'll admit, but I'm hopeful it'll be worth it in the long run.

All I can say is OMG... no homo. Great players! +1 Great example.

OR you might get lucky (like me) and promote into a relatively weak DIV. I bought 4 big men (SF, PF, C and backup C) for around 800k, which boosted my salaries by around 50k a week. However, due to the extra 25k in attendence, and 25k in merch/tv money, i'm still making 70k a week. just make sure your arena can handle DIV.