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I think you should be happy. 9-12 pops is totally normal for an 18 year old rookie and you only get more if they had a lot of skills randomly with high sub-levels at the start (I have seen Indian and Bolivian players get six pops in their first three weeks) or you do a lot of one on one training.

By comparason my training has been all over the place this season. Lots of different guys like Lawrance, Sperbert, Vallo, and Oliver have been trained depending on what was happening that week and only Barton and Kumar have been trained every week.

Barton: age 24 had six pops so far, HA, OD, PA, DR, PA, HA.
Kumar: age 22 had eight pops so far, JS, DR, PA, OD, PA, HA, PA, DR.

My training this season has been 5 x PA, 3 x OD, 2 x one on one for forwards. I tend to do my stamina and free throw training during the playoffs when I need the best team on the floor so I don't have to worry about training minutes at that time.

I do feel like I am missing out with the young players and as both Barton and Kumar should be good enough to start in league games next season I think I will try to get an Aussie rookie at the start of next season if you, Iwen and Shanmag let me.

Only reason you should be unhappy is that you haven't done more inside training while you can without it costing you league games that you care about. I didn't do it in season 18 and now it is far too difficult, the one on one for forwards is as close as I can get.

Porras and Pons Plana still might end up getting sold to make room for another aussie trainne or two.

Regretably I'll probably end up buying them given the crap in this draft

Training has been focussed on Ryders needs, and the fact he is 206cm tall

He started the season with pitiful outside d and will make it to average by seasons end.

He started the season with respectable inside shot and average Inside defense (now strong).

I figure that with 3 weeks training in a season on rebounding and 1 or 2 weeks a season on Inside defense and 1 or 2 weeks a season on jump range that he should get 2 pops in inside shot by the end of his 3rd season training taking him to proficient.

Given his height etc he should make up for lost time in his 4th & 5th seasons when I start training one on one and jump shot and the occassional inside shot

Why train players when you can buy a 28 year old value for salary player like Mottram for only 468 K

I dont know much about him and I dont know if he will win you a championship this season, but gees you seem to have got him for a very low price this close to play offs.

What is his recommended resale price?

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 7/20/2012 11:32:32 AM

206cm is quite tall but fantastic for a SF. Barton is 6'4" and I have noticed he trains more slowly than a shorter guy. Hopefully I can pick up an Aussie 6'0" MVP next season but considering how much money I have to spare he will probably have to have a $3k starting salary!

Last edited by yodabig at 7/20/2012 11:24:17 AM

206cm is quite tall but fantastic for a SF. Barton is 6'4" and I have noticed he trains more slowly than a shorter guy. Hopefully I can pick up an Aussie 6'0" MVP next season but considering how much money I have to spare he will probably have to have a $3k starting salary!

I reckon 183 cm is a bit short for an ideal small forward trainnee.

Personally I reckon 190 cm to 203 cm is desired with 193cm to 201cm being optimum.

Regretably because of the crap in this draft Iv had to widen my search parametres.

Fishy might be right there might be better prospects in the 19 year olds

Regarding Ryder.

He has 62 skill points at the moment and I expect 64 or 65 by the end of the season.

I hope to get him to between 76 and 78 skill points by the end of next season (without training one on one or jump shot)

Too ambitious?

How much does the progress of trainnes slow down in their 2nd and 3rd years?

Can someone buy Jerzy Wac off me?

Trying to reshape my roster for the rigours of div 2 with a couple of acquisitions.

Only problem is that im now about 173 k over the floor and would like to get this amount down before the economy updates on Monday morning

Also back on the topic of Ryder, I have the "required" benchmark skill stats to qualify a player for the Australian Under 21 team.

Does anyone know what the Australian senior team "required" benchmark skill stats are to qualify a player for the SF & PF positions?

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 7/20/2012 7:45:43 PM

If you want to compare a little bit, these are my 3 trainees:

warlow: last season's end 64 -- and now --> 72

kwok: last season's end 68 -- and now --> 75

kostis: last season's end 65 -- and now --> 76

I've trained single position for guards and jump shot during the 2 games weeks.

I have no idea wether it should be considered as a success or a fail as I haven't trained young blokes for a long time but it looks okay so far.

nice work ezlife

willy has done a lot of 1on1 & js so i have done the easy stuff but @ age 21 he has 97 TSP (excluding ST & FT 107 including) & has had 12 pops in the last 14 weeks

Heating up in the relegation zone "wars"

Bryce has made it pretty clear he doesnt want to relegate.

Wouldnt be surprised if teams start to "strategically lose" to avoid an opponent.

Pressure will be on the goldfish to hang onto 6th and the HCA

Will the match up that everyone wants to see, Bryce v Trikster, occur?



Last edited by Sid Vicious at 7/22/2012 6:35:57 PM

Has Chumunga intentionally failed to set a team so as to lose to the Bot DFBS???

Could they be positioning to avoid Bryce and his recruit KRASSNITZER????

Yeah saw he also tanked v Baxter a couple of games ago even before Bryce made his move.