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If i were you, i would sell him at a good price first, employ a better trainer immediately (choose level 4 initially, target level 5 two seasons later).

The next step is to wait draft done and review your own training plan based on what players you picked.

If you have spare time to spend, try to purchase some "below market price" players during playoff & off-season period, because most BB players is not active on spending these days, thus you may find good players at competitive price, THEN you may sell them at higher price when new season starts (BB players like to switch their squad to suit their training plan in new season, bidding war may happen).

Below is some of my transfer history i did it in between season 9 & 10, these information can be checked by everyone, so i think it can be shown here.

Alexes Venus Bought Ginebra San Miguel GinKings 8/26/2009 $ 50 000
Alexes Venus Sold Eastharbor 76ers 8/30/2009 $ 125 000

Rade Meglič Bought KK JEBAĆI 8/25/2009 $ 12 000
Rade Meglič Sold f. stromp 9/2/2009 $ 66 400

Xenaro Chan Bought Skullsyellows 8/9/2009 $ 30 000
Xenaro Chan Sold BERMIO 9/24/2009 $ 51 800

Francisco Martinez Ruiz Bought C.B.Cunilleras 8/26/2009 $ 20 000
Francisco Martinez Ruiz Sold The Radioactive Monkey 9/30/2009 $ 50 000

P.S. young age (18-year-old is the best) & long-lasting trainable (potential is star or above) are both important when looking for "below market price" players

Last edited by Wallace Lai at 3/6/2010 12:35:28 PM

My trainer also get's paid more than my highest paid player. I think lvl4 is cheap enough for his work (remember there are 7 levels, 6 of them can be hired, minimal is appointed only when you fire your current trainer with no new assigning). Train FT or stamina when you have 2 games a week. If you go far in playoffs you still get 3 games a week (with finals tiebreaker).

The only flaw I can see in this thinking would be if there are caps on how high a player's skill can go in a certain area if they are a lower potential. For example if you could only train JS to a certain strength if your player was a 6th man even though he was below the salary "cap". I do not know if such a thing exists.

Excellent question.

A perusal of the transfer list suggests that there are no skill-by-skill caps. Just search the transfer market for any combination of one high individual skill and low potential, and you'll find matches. For example there are 3 guys with "wondrous" or better jump shot and "6th man" or worse potential. Clearly these guys have only been trained in one area, but their low potential was not a hindrance to attaining a very high rating in 1 or 2 areas.

What I do think -- and I have no evidence of this, but it makes sense -- is that it gets harder to train a skill the higher you go. A player might have a potential that translates to 6 bumps. But it takes more training to get 6 bumps in one area than 2 bumps in 3 areas. It takes more training to go from "respectable" to "tremendous" than it does to go from respectable to proficient three times.

That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

I think it only gets harder to train the higher you go because players get older and training slows with age. Training will also be slower if the skill is several levels ahead of the complimentary skills. ie. if IS is respectable the further you train ID above respectable the slower it will get.

Hypothetically say you have an 18 yr old Hall of Famer and an 18 yr old 6th man with the exact same skill set...my question is will these two players train at the same speed up until you max out the 6th man or will a higher potential player train faster simply because of his potential?

Potential doesn't affect training speed until the cap is reached.