What are the minimum required inside skills for a U21 big man not to be crushed by his direct opponent? Or, in other words, how many extra outside skills do you need to have in order to compensate for lower inside skills?
there is no simple answer to that question. to know the answer about how much time is exactly won, it would require several managers starting with an identical trainee. half of them would have to train 1v1 and then OD, the other half would have to tackle the Od straight away. futhermore, no information is provided about the sublvls, making it very hard to get an accurate answer.
if u want to know exactly how fast someone trains with higher HA/DR than someone without, i don't think anyone can give you an accurate answer. all i know is that a PF with JS 15 JR 6 OD 9 HA 16 DR 17 PA 9 at age 26/27 is supposed to have a pop in OD once every 6 weeks ( 6 + some change that is). However, in reality, he popped once every 3 weeks for the first couple of lvls. So it certainly influences. the only catch is that the difference has to be big enough. One could make a case that if he trained that PF in Od earlier instead of 1v1, that the total time would have been the same to achieve the same lvls.
If -as you're advocating- you train 1.5 years of 1v1, then 1 year of OD, you have only half a year of inside training before the trainee turns 21 and, by that time, he should be already quite far behind in that respect (he might very well catch up later, but I would think that's irrelevant in a U21 perspective).
euhm, are you training a player for your own team (who happens to have a chance to get into the U21) or are you solely training for the U21. i always try to improve players for their own teams.
if the U21 first tells you to train IS/ID/RB/SB (turning him into a 120k monster). and then the NT asks, please train his guard skills. would you like to put a 120k big on a PG/SG position for his OD/PA/JR training? or would u prefer to do that first and then train your IS/ID/RB, keeping his salary lower over the entire training periode? personally, from a team perspective, i'd chose the second one. Also, what good is a player if he is being trained well, but is forced to sell since he can't handle the salary of the player anymore (or has to play the player to much to manage the salary in the team?) for an U21/NT he's worthless. those players need to be in good shape, hence need to limit the minutes.
Also, u might think that having a big with IS 14 ID 14 RB 14 SB 11 will always beat out a guy with IS 12 ID 12 RB 12 SB 10. however, if the second player has better guard skills, then he'll take more jumpshots. the guy with better primairies, has less good secundairies, hence can't defend a jumpshot properly. that means jumpshots will go in easier or that the 14/14/14/12 big is more likely to foul, meaning that he'll have to sit at some point for being in foul trouble. BB isn't just about skills. it is also about the player match-ups
Edit: I guess you were talking about your own trainee when you mentioned the 1.5 seasons of 1v1 and only giving advice to go as far as 1 season in that regard, however my points still stands: how well is such a player going to compete against big men with 45+ in inside skills?
as mentioned just above: depends on the total amount of skills. if both players have roughly the same total skills (inside and outside added togeter) then one player will have the edge outside, the other one will have an edge inside. how else can u explain that some 30k players can preform equally well against 60k players with the same enthusiasm and gameshape on both sides? it's because the 30k player has some skills in which he is better, that don't count towards to total salary. it's the total package that should be taken into consideration, not just the primairy skills
Last edited by AthrunZala at 1/13/2014 12:34:46 PM