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I agree with what the others have said about your attendance, it'll pick up quickly, but you still need to be careful with your spending. You should get 50k a week for the first 4 weeks, which is a huge boost. Your TV game (the last one of the season for you) will bring you around 300k thanks to your division, which should get you safely through the offseason.

In terms of training, the prevailing idea is to either train "inside" guys or "outside" guys. This either means your PF/C or your SG/PG. You can mix in some training for your SF if you're clever. Guards mostly use the first 6 skills (jump shot, jump range, outside D, handling, passing, driving) and big men use the next 4 (inside shot, inside D, rebounding, shot blocking), but some of the skills matter for both, like how your PF might also use driving or your guards might also need some inside shot. It's pretty intuitive with real basketball.

Guys with balanced skills train faster, so when looking for trainees you would prefer a guy that was "average" in jump shot, jump range, outside defense, and handling to a guy who was "strong" in jump shot and "atrocious" in the other three.
In order to keep the skills balanced and the training faster, lots of people rotate among several skills, training each for 2-3 weeks at a time. For instance, for my guards I do 2-3 weeks of jump shot, 2-3 weeks of pressure, now I'm on 2-3 weeks of driving, etc. It's a little easier to train big men since they have less necessary skills than guards.

Trainees are expensive, especially balanced 18 yos, so I'd look on your team and see if you have any youth at a position and train that if possible. Training speed just doubled, so if you make sure your trainees get 48 minutes at the right position you should see some pops fairly quickly.

Hope this helps!

It goes without saying, but try to get a scrimmage every week. If you can't find one go to the scrimmage thread([message= 10051.172]) and either post, or challenge someone who has posted. If you don't get every player at least 24 minutes each week, then their stamina MAY drop. (I had 3 players drop a level.)

Next season it will be easier in the first couple weeks of the season because you have the cup. Odds are the first few weeks you will get bots but unless you are positive you can win DON'T TIE them. I made the noob mistake off being a cocky, newly promoted, arrogant person and played my scrub line-up and TIE'd. (See game:(2039579))

Also, understand the difference in getting your players minutes:

Strictly follow Depth Chart will make your starters play 30+ minutes so you have your best players on the floor and Let Coach Decide will spread them more evenly. Your coach will put the best players on the floor so be careful you don't get any player over 90 minutes or their Practice this week will drop and they will not play up to their best possible.

AND WHATEVER YOU DO DON't: Spend any money on the TL until you know what your doing. I made that mistake and lost 120,000 on a horrible player! ((688467))

I started last season right around this time so I like to think I know the ropes. ( I have made all the mistakes, believe me!) If you need specific answers, you can just BB-mail me!

Good Luck!

P.S. Oh yeah, also, worship GM-Juicepats!(22777) :)

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P.S. Oh yeah, also, worship GM-Juicepats!(22777)

I have no idea why, but hell, it sounds like a tremendous idea.

The rules are my bible :)

a more skilled player will improve more quickly. For example, a great inside defender and rebounder will find it easier to improve his shot blocking than a poor inside defender and poor rebounder would. This encourages you to develop players with a combination of skills, but there are many combinations of skills which work well together

It's not a theory, it's a fact.
Then we can discuss how big is the effect and what is the difference between similar skills before it has a visible impact.