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Well I've just bought 2 very important pieces for my teams future.
Dave Lambert MVP, you will come to know him as "The DL" He will fit in nicely with my training plan for "The Great Wall". And i desperately needed a 3rd proper trainee. Yes he's 19 but his starting stats are stupendous for what I'm looking for in the coming seasons.

also got my arena up to the perfect number of 12345, consisting of 11111 bleachers :P

I wont be spending any more cash this season. Same old consistent Rangas

I would expect that my season is going to be very hit and miss as I'm likely to be playing my 3 trainees for 48 minutes single position for most of it with some 1on1 thrown in for good measure.

Good luck to everyone for season 17, predicting the beasts to promote.

Maybe you and I should be in the USA DIII.12, my recent acquisition is also a yank, little younger and more expensive but specific to my training requirements, I think I actually bought him for a very reasonable price.

Still unsure how the Blaze will tackle this season but their will be a higher emphasis on training than last season that is certain.

Hi Hippo,

Cheers for your honesty mate, I need as much of this sort of advice as I can get!

What about this trainee - Possible Future U21 apparently:

Chau Viên

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: starter **** - yes I know, I know but it's all I've got lol
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: respectable
Driving: respectable Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: atrocious
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: average Free Throw: atrocious

Experience: atrocious


OD and Handling are at a reasonable level, passing obviously needs work and jump range is pathetic. Let me know what you think, I'm starting to lean towards just training one position as a few on here are suggesting is the better way to go...

if his potential were higher i would be great, sign him.. but Starter potential is just plain useless. With that potential, he would not even come close to a possible U21.

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thread=144856&m=30 <-- read that thread on training..

How does potential work?
Potential acts as a cap on training. Different potential levels cap out at different skill levels. So an MVP can be trained longer than an Allstar potential player. There is a rough salary estimate corresponding to the cap for each potential level. Once the skill set of a player reaches a particular point (The soft cap) that is equal to the potential level of the player, training really slows down and it becomes ineffective to train the player anymore.

0 Announcer: < 6k
1 Bench warmer: < 8k
2 Role player: < 13k
3 6th man: 15-18k
4 Starter: 20-30k
5 Star: 35-50k
6 AllStar: 60-80k
7 Perennial allstar: 95-140k
8 Superstar: 140-220k
9 MVP: 215-315k
10 Hall of famer: 500k+
11 All time great: 1M+

The above is a rough estimate of potentials and where they cap at. Note that centers are generally capable of attaining a higher salary than guards.

The above is taken from the BB guide.. here you can see the max salary for a starter potential player is 20-30k, so if you are to train him to maximum, he could be a decent starter in this league, but most likely a back up player.
Don't believe what people write in there transfer comments, they are trying to sell their players and maybe suck in an inexperienced player to buy a player for more than he is worth.

nice pick up Brett.. you gonna train him as PF or SF? at 6'5 looks like a possible SF candidate!

Thanks mate, yeah he was a fantastic buy in the end and he will def be a SF, still have my SG Moodie and my other SS Nikos to train so their will be some interesting cross training over the next couple of seasons for me, think that will take my chances of promoting this season away but I will still finish somewhere near the top for the red, don't think there is much comp there. Be high seems to train his old men still which is not helping him, predicting Sammy Dog to be the competition for the red, Z's guys have trained well too but unless he can pick up a solid 3rd starter he will still be 4th at best.

Was talking to Ranga before and was saying for early predictions I see it finishing like so -

Blue - Beasts, Hippos, Dreamers or Rangas (can't seperate), bains, spartans, leikus and bogans
Red - Blaze, Sdog, CRE, Z, Be high, Cweb, Glory and then bandits...

Blue - Beasts, Hippos, Dreamers or Rangas (can't seperate), bains, spartans, leikus and bogans
Red - Blaze, Sdog, CRE, Z, Be high, Cweb, Glory and then bandits...

Blue - Beasts, Hippos, Rangas, Dreamers, Gladiators, Spartans, leikus and bogands
Red - Blaze, Be High, CRE, Sdog, Cwebs, Z's, glory and bandits

I think it is to early for predictions :D the dreamers are just taking 1 game at time starting tonight against the hippos :D

All I can say, is i think this could possibly be the best season for 3.12 as a whole :D A week in, noone looks like going BOT just yet, hopefully we can get more guys into the forums!

All I can say, is i think this could possibly be the best season for 3.12 as a whole A week in, noone looks like going BOT just yet, hopefully we can get more guys into the forums!

true about the activity levels, however i think the standard of competition may drop, or there just wont be as many teams
competing for promotion like last season

nice pickups ranga and brett. i have been trying to buy 1 or 2 rookies off the TL but everytime a player i want ends i am busy and now the numbers are dwindling on the TL meaning more competition for the few blokes that are left. doesnt help that i will most likely be busy all day today so i will miss a couple more i want.

ps. its my birthday today so i wont be on for our game stazza.

happppppppppppy birthday bainsy!

hope your Plebs can deliver the W for you tonight :D

cheers bud.

i expect they should against the very raw leikus united. just set the lineup, and we will be taking no prisoners tonight.

off to get my shit together to play 4 hours of tennis in the cold not exactly looking forward to it