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Disagree FC. Gipson capped out at the end of his 22nd year. He is barely training anymore and he is Perennial Allstar. Superfly Guy is right. Also you need to think that there is a difference between established teams like ours and newer managers. They often don't have the money to spend on PRIME trainees so spending 1/4 of the price on 1/2 the player makes a tremendous amount of sense for them.

The best strategy for newer teams, in my opinion, is train for a year or two, sell, buy new trainees. It doesn't work well to train for 4-5 years before making a trade because they often have so many other holes.

I hear you - didnt think that it would be 6 weeks difference. I think my opinions are partially clouded by the fact ive been training older guys these past seasons and Im not entirely sure of the slowdown. I contribute some naturally to age and some to the soft cap of the potential.

I would reckon by the time your guards are almost done you will be at a competitive level where you might also have to train older guys mixed in with younger drafts as well.

difference between established teams like ours and newer managers

I agree, I was blessed to have drafted Lundy but I still think in terms of this managers trainee starting in such a deep hole for OD doesnt make sense. He could sell the player and grab a AllStar/PAllstar for a decent price. I just grabbed an 18y/o P Allstar with great starting skills for 400k. A bargain in my eyes. The extreme prices usually correlate with potential as most managers deem MVP/HOF players to be worthy of 1m+ no matter their skills, a mistake in my eyes.

But yes, the best strategy is to train and sell for a few seasons to build up your teams net worth. In the end climbing up the ranks of BB is just a numbers game of increasing your teams total value until you get to the competitive leagues in which you really look for the right player for the right slot. Until you get up there everyone is expendible. I turnover my bigmen once a season and always look for a player whos value will not diminish much as they wont get a lick of training from me.

I think my opinions are partially clouded by the fact ive been training older guys these past seasons and Im not entirely sure of the slowdown.

I've had my 2 MVP guards since they were both 18, have tracked every week of training minutes, and pops. I've noticed a slowdown while not significant yet its amazing how fast the 18 y/o's pop. One of my 18y/o's last season had back to back JS pops something I hadn't seen before.

I would reckon by the time your guards are almost done you will be at a competitive level where you might also have to train older guys mixed in with younger drafts as well

Each stage of this game gets harder and harder to bring in a Rookie and train him properly as your facing ever better opponents. When Lundy was a rookie he was my top player and one of the top in DV, so it wqas easy to train him. Now in D3 I have to 48 my rookies in my Cup/Scrimmage and struggle to slip them some minutes in league games as their a liability. When you get to the stage of the game your aty it only makes sense to take half/mostly finished projects and put the final touches on them as they wont hurt you and your also in the financial position to be able to afford these expensive players, something I cannot yet do.

you can make him a SG because his handles is awful according to the chart he is an average height for it too so he might be good for that position if he's surronded by a good PG and SF.