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Please Charles, any decision you can take is ok but please, don't get this game too easy (I speak about training and money) all of us would like to have best drafted player, tons of $ and the perfect player; I remember the beginning when everything it was "hard and difficul" but when also the fun was really high

First, This post doesn't existe in the spanish global Forum? 'Cause I don't see it.

I'm a newbie player, so, in the Draft, I got some players in the first line.. (SG... Idon't know ---Refers to Base and Escolta----) The training options to increase the inside defense is only "Press".
In the help forum, this skill is training but like a secondary skill... (I think).

I'm right?

If the answer is yes, then... maybe U can make another option where Inside Defense will be the main?

So, which is the correct option?

Pressure trains Outside Defence as the main.
Inside Defence trains Inside Defence as the main.

Does this solve your problem?

Any additional options for any position is welcomed by me..

Ned - I dont think its about making the game easier but I have not played my best 5 in position other than in a PL game since i started playing...

So shall we all continue to set lineups using players that lack certain skills in key areas (and never train them) or play a jumbled line up that you hope is still strong enough to win and slowly add to the lacking skills on players before you can play them back in their preferred or more natural position...

I just want to be able to play my best 5 v someone elses best 5 every week....(in the right positions!)

I'd echo that sentiment. Players should be able to play from their position.

There was talk earlier about watching out for the new people -- isn't the current even harder for a new person?

Consider a player listed as a SG, who's skills are probably better suited towards being a SF. If a newer person is even able to grasp the concept that SG may not be the best position (even though he's listed that way) -- would they be able to grasp the concept of playing this one as a C/PF for a game to up inside scoring/rebound/whatever?

There are so many options and so many possible tweaks that no matter what is done with this system -- optimal training is still going to be difficult. I would imagine it best to allow the player to make the choice -- straightforward and simple.

If it's felt to be important enough to protect new people from training SB with guards -- don't make guards an option on those few stats. The weighting from height should be enough of an influence to deter consistent training in strange areas, I'd imagine.

The variety is what will make the game most interesting -- different players, used different ways. Why put a limit on how different the players can be? With the caps introduced from Potential, how much damage can really be done by allowing training to be more focused as long as there are checks and balances in place to keep things from getting out of hand?

Last edited by JimSardonic at 5/10/2008 1:34:43 AM

Having talked this over a bit with the rest of the team, here's I think the consensus:

It is intended that training cannot easily be perfect in BuzzerBeater, as much as I know many of you would like us to make that possible. Rather, every team is supposed to make a choice between ideal training and ideal game performance, and the best teams will end up choosing a happy medium which isn't really ideal in either.

So if you want your PG to get inside skills, you do have to do something, at least in a scrimmage, that will make it less effective.

However, I think you've correctly pointed out a flaw here that a SF doesn't really get to do anything special, and that's a mistake. Rather, it seems like there should be some SF-only training options created which give some inside and some outside skills, each less than you would if you trained just the one or the other. Does that sound like a reasonable compromise?

What about PFs?

It was just a "suggestion" Of course you can see that my roster is full of SF

It's a little bit OT but I've seen the salary of my SF comprared to the salary of a center with same skills (or better to say monoskill); I'm paying 6k/week more than the center ^_^"