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Well to illustrate:

1 position training > 2 position training > buying players

But take into account that with 2 position training, you get to train more players, which means more players to sell in the future, which means more money to buy new players.

So like I said, it depend on your prospects. If I had good trainees for both PG and SG, I would do 2 position training. But looking at your team, your 20 year old SG only has a salary of a little more than 3k while the one with 3.8k is already 21 years old, so I don't think they'll get very far. Similarly, even though your PGs are only 18, their salaries are not even over 3k. So I wouldn't consider them to be long term prospects. You might be able to get better trainees from the draft and the players you get next season could still be better than your current trainees with 1 year of training.

For now, I might just train the PGs only and sell them off if you get better trainees in the future (which could very well be the case).

You could also try getting 1 or 2 of your SGs to play 48+ minutes as PG so that they could get some training too.

Last edited by Agent L at 3/19/2010 11:36:18 PM

I think it's best if you pick an offense that you are going to aim for first (say run & gun). Then I would train PG & SG and just buy cheap older players to fill the other positions. You won't need really good players there until you move up. It's too hard at our level to make enough money to buy a good team, but we can buy old players is our salary range that are cheaper than buying all young guys that you aren't going to train much anyway. It will keep your wins (and money) up while you train what you want.

Hopefully I lose my championship game today so I don't have to worry about the implications of moving up... lol.

one position training will give you 2 or 3 guys that will be really good very soon and is great for experienced managers however i wouldnt recommend it to new players because

1) they often cant manage the minutes that well so waste a lot of training
2) they can choose bad players to train for example players that are too old too tall the wrong potential or have one critical skill really low
3) they sometimes do the wrong type of training
4) they need several reasonable players to make a team
5) one injury can ruin your plans
6) they wont have anyone to sell

now if you have a good friendly mentor who can check your team and tell you "you know you trainee SG is 22 6'11" and 6th man potential perhaps you should just choose someone else" then it isnt so bad

but in the end to be successful we really need 5 reasonable players and the best way to achieve that i believe is two position training

if you do two position training you should be able to develop around 5 players quite nicely with luck at the end of the season you should be able to sell 2 or 3 of them and buy some older guys you need for the other positions

remember to keep the ones you like the most

then you will have a team

It depends on what players you have, and what you get in the draft next week. If you can get 5 18yo trainees with allstar+ potential together then 2 position training has still got to be the way to go.

2 position training is not a lot slower than 1 position, and training 5-6 compared to 1-2 will allow you improve players you want to keep and train some for sale later on.

However, I know the price of half decent young players isn't exactly cheap anymore, and a new team probably wouldn't be able to afford to buy more than 1 or 2 right away.

My advice would be to see what you get in the draft, and maybe check the transfer market in the week after it. It's possible prices will come down a lot for the average 18yo.

Well I had a quick look at your team. You have 3 potential trainees an 18 year old MVP PG, an 18 year old allstar PG and maybe the 20 year old superstar SG. They all look to have fairly low starting skills. If that was all you had you would definately do single position training for PG. However if you pick up some good draft picks and maybe buy one or two guys in the next week or two you can still do two position but those guys you have may benefit most from one position as they will be 19/21 and are already far behind in their skills possibly making their great potential of no value.

I have been 2 position training up to this point making my team strong and I think this helped me out. Helped me build a more well rounded team and build more players at once. Now that I have a better team and am winning I will try and get a good draftee or 2 to train while purchasing the extra players i need to win now.


Rusty

Last edited by RussBass at 3/21/2010 8:50:29 PM