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I am not the best trainer but I will say what I have done.

1) Bought Daisaku Kawaida as a raw 18 year old and trained him 100% myself. Coach didn't play him season 16 or early in 17 but later in 17 when he got a chance he was a regular backup getting good stats and ratings.

2) Noritada Konoe was my draft pick & started from a very low level about $3000 salary but improved fast and never fouled out. After the real games were over season 17 he was the starting SG in the last 5 scrimmages was top scorer in 2, top 3 scorer in the other 3 and one of the best 3 players on the team in 4 of the 5 games. Start of season 18 the coach didn't like him and refused to play him but once he did Konoe was again one of the three in scoring AND rating EVERY game.

3) I bought Hirofumi Sonoda for a fortune assuming I could still train him but despite about a season of training (he still gets a week from time to time) he was capped and has only had about 1-2 pops for me ever. I have kept him in good game shape and he has been a top contributor for the NT starting many games.

4) I bought Kaname Kouzuki for not that much. He had been doing nothing for the NT because he was never in good game shape. He was already very old so training was not practical but I kept his game shape up and he has been a solid contributor for the NT.

5) I bought Takayoshi Kawagichi from Wolph also as a raw 18 year old who had only played 1 scrimmage for FCTB. I trained him up from scratch. Season 19 the coach refused to play him until the last three scrimmages of the season where he got the best ratings on the team twice and second best once and hit 5/7, 7/8 and 4/4 FGs and generally played much better than the guys that had been cutting him out of the team the whole season. Season 20 despite the dissapointment of the close losses he was a key part of the team and a major contributor.

6) I drafted Shin Shidehara but again he had very low starting skills and I remember debating on these boards if he was too low to train but people suggested I did. By age 19 he was on the U21 team playing in the season 20 scrimmages as an occasional backup. This season on the undefeated U21 team he has been the starting PG at age 20 (mainly due to a lack of PGs this season) and has another season ahead of him where I hope he will be 1 of our best guard defenders ever being somewhere around prodigious/proficient by the start of the U21 games next season. Have we ever had better?

7) Next season I will spend whatever it takes to get a high potential 18 year old to start the next cycle of training. I have $2 million now and am making almost $200,000 a week (Typical Weekly Net Income:$ 199 596) so money will be no problem.

That is my contribution. I would have contributed more but potential has been my downfall. My next trainee I want to be a MVP.

To defend the coach, he asked me to train some passing 3 weeks ago. 2 pops in passing done for The Shinkansen, now I can get back to defence.

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 9/16/2012 12:10:37 AM

Wolph says: F**K I ROCK

No wolphy, you don't.

I think quite poignantly, it's not me who "doesn't get it".

I know Tsunami is great but is he really 130 TSP already? It seems odd with only a $26k salary. (Everyone knows SFs have their salaries calculated in a funny low way.) Also his DMI of only DMI: 187600 at strong.

Takayoshi Kawagichi is only in the 100+ category but with a $50k salary. He has a proficient DMI of 846500 which right now would make him 8th on the NT. Please don't bother telling me yet again that salary, DMI, ratings etc all mean nothing, otherwise all we are left with is opinion. Takayoshi Kawagichi is a year younger than Tsunami. They have the same potential.

I certainly think Tsunami is a great well rounded player I just don't understand how you can say Tsunami is a great player and Takayoshi Kawagichi (double the salary, double + the DMI, 1 year younger, same potential, high TSP) is a joke.

A nation with 33 users, we aren't trying to beat 2,000 user China, but a well trained team of superstars supporting a the HoF guys should put us up with a lot of nations with 5-10 times our population.

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 9/16/2012 12:48:43 AM

I admire your ability to try to prove that by losing and me winning somehow I have an inflated ego when you talk smack to me. proof is in the pudding.

No champ, it's because you TALK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME! I bet you couldn't even go a single week without mentioning Tsunami in the forums.
You certainly talk yourself up a helluva lot for a 3rd placed team.

Awesome. You lasted almost 10 minutes.

Well... THAT was a bit boring.

No defending needed and that goes with you too...you are a monster trainer, Kawagichi and now the "Shin"kansen...keep up the great work...D sounds good to me..