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Hi Zeus, since you're the only candidate at the moment, can you maybe share your ideas about designing the roster for inside-outside only? Do you think we can afford not to do it and perform better in the mid-long term?

I mentioned it before and frankly I consider this approach as the go-to strategy.
Are there alternatives, given we're not among the top squads?

Personally I enjoy training and designing players for particular strategies more than anything in the game, hence my point.
Any other candidate or manager, welcome to contribute.

Edit. To elaborate a bit more, just an example. If there're a couple of key perimeter players able to look 19-17-19-19-19-14, why not to suggest key centers to look 16-20-19 as a consequence, instead of 20-17-15. Or the opposite. I'm making it up as I have no data regarding the coming generations in England, although a quick look at excel documents would make it easy to choose where to row.

Edit 2. I do believe sticking to something like this is much more important for the candidate than guessing right the opponent, at least in the short term.

Last edited by m4nufactured at 6/24/2017 7:28:58 AM

Keep in mind you are competing against guys like this (and he dropped some skill as he dropped down from 284k salary):

Du Duncheng (28499684)
Starting Price: $ 11 111 111

Weekly salary: $ 270 759
Age: 34
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: all-time great
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: legendary Jump Range: sensational
Outside Def.: legendary (21) Handling: legendary (21)
Driving: legendary (21) Passing: marvelous
Inside Shot: legendary Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: average Free Throw: average

Experience: sensational TSP: 154 (110 + 44)

There's not really many like Du Duncheng, Hakinnen, Tomanski, Farnsworth or Hurda, top TSP of the game.
I have my own database with most NT squads, and China is other level for anyone else.

But for the record, in season 34 Spain made it to the WC final against Serbia (37454) with only 3 players above 140TSP (Chaperon, Llull and just Colmenares), and the key is always skill distribution aligned to a tactic choice (mostly LI) as far as I can see. But this doesn't mean a perimeter option is less successful than inside ones, in any case.

Germany has had a training program for ages and has players who fit a style and although they had some success, they also never came close to win anything. They are also bigger than England.

Barring injuries and being mindful of the cap my trainee should be:
19/14/21 21/21/14 11/10/3/6 when he breaks 140 in 6 seasons.
Feeney should be:


Who wouldn't take +2 OD over +3 JR? Note that it's also a salary trade-off because the build you suggested is much easier and quicker to achieve considering how fast JR trains compared to OD (for me it's nearly as fast as 1v1 right now). I'm happy to train JR and give up some OD or PA if people want to play outside with the NT, but I think investing in flow (especially on bigs) would be money better spent if that's the plan.

I'd like to ask what you see Zeus as a way of uniting and building a platform for NT development? I'm sure many of us aren't expecting dramatic wins as the last two seasons have produced, we look strongest outside now, but I think we would all like to see a strong developing platform for the NT moving forward given the recent success and inspiration of our last few seasons.

Also what are your current realistic goals for this season (I understand these could be vague as you haven't seen the players yet)