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NO NO NO!!!! Its a common misconception to think that potential has ANYTHING to do with training speed!!! Height, Age and skills i.e the higher the better and the more similar the better are the only things that affect training speed! Potential also doesn't affect how common pops will be, for example, if you are training 2 centres, 1 is 7 foot with all star potential and the other is 6'7" but with Hall of Fame potential there is no argument that the first will train faster!

By training speed I mean that PLAYER A will take longer to hit his salary cap... therefore compared to PLAYER B, his trainin will be faster....as in lets say they both are trained equally... Player B will hit his cap lets say when he's 21... PLAYER A will still not have hit his soft salary cap... and won't have training stalled as much... as in this part of your answer:

It is true that in your case player B's training will begin to slow sooner provided their height and so on are the same. Just to answer your Q ;)

yup! I'm new... the high potential dude with low skills isn't my first pick... I went for two players with 5 star rating, A+ and 3 potential as my first picks... :) the high potential one was jus like a mini lottery thingy for me.. if I get him... and his skills suck will TL him :) But might might jus keep him for experimenting sake... we'll see! first I need to get him! lol! : )

thanks again!

edit: oh no! epic fail at trying to use quotes!! ahhaha!


Last edited by Simply Vince at 6/17/2010 5:02:53 AM

WOW, sounds like you have some nice players there!!!

Unfortunately for yo, you only pick 10th which is pretty bad considering there are only 16 teams. But there is still the chance that you are able to get your top pick. Good luck man :)

Ye i guess if you were committed to training a player for like 5 or 6 seasons you'd want him to have a higher potential so that he doesnt cap quickly. But for someone like you who already has 2 young trainable shooting guards and 1 trainable PF i would be looking for another PG, evevn if he doesn't meet your standards guards tend to sell for more and are normally in higher demand. Anyway in my first draft i had epic luck and drafted a C with respectbale/average for almost everything, starting salary of like 6k and allstar potential and so my first draft was awesome! And thus i hope you have similar luck :D

Just remember dont be disappointed and rash with your decisions to fire or sell players you draft you may come to regret the decision of not training or keeping them.

thanks buddy! good luck to you too :)

fortunately for me (for the draft anyway... it gets a lil less interesting because of this as well) there are only 5 active players in the league... the rest are all bots :( And 4 of the 5 are ranked above me! So I'm praying the bots random others apart from my top 3!! lol!! :D

The top three of my draft are guards / pgs :D

Yea.. I was looking it at it as in in the long run training speed will be higher...

As in:
the total number of pops / x seasons = average time per pop

So thats what I meant by trains faster in the long run... but length of trainin fits what i meant better : )

same here mate...

seriously, my current expenses make me break even barely... which is why I intend to spend next season concentrating on the arena. I don't think I need any more money spent on my squad. They should be sufficient to bring me to the PO. Am not looking to get promoted anyway. Jus aiming for PO's :)

Well that depends. You have us the potential for the last 2 guys, but not the age, and potential and age should both be available. If #4 is 18, than I would put him 2nd.

I'd put him third... but matter of pref between age + ability & pot I guess