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Seems like you have been training inside and why not continue with that for the rest of this season?

I don't consider anyone of your players really being worth training as they already at start of this season was 19 and had a quite low salary.

I do think that you should sell anyone below 22 that is worth something and that is not in training position. If you keep training inside then sell PG/SG and SF of young age if yo ucan get at least 50k for them. Just look at transfer compare and you will have a quite good indication there. Young players usually are worth a lot more than older which is the reason. Instead you can replace them with a similar or better player of at least 25 years of age. At this stage you could even buy a 33 years old player and have for 1-2 seasons. They loose skills pretty fast but are also very cheap to buy so could have a starter (not relating to potential now) for less than $10000. You will then both save money and improve your team in short time.

I would wait with getting new trainees until start of next season. Maybe you could buy a 18 year old trainee already now but I do believe that they are not good enough to be worth the effort. Might be worth it to sell early next season when you replace most of your trainees.

If you are lucky with your draft you might 1 or 2 interesting players and then I would advice to adjust your training to them. You are most likely not able to find a better trainee this late this season to be better than best draft pick so wait for draft pick no matter what now. Regarding potential for trainee you do actually not need better than 6th man potential when you are a new team. So if you got little money I would rather buy a 18 year old 6th man or star potential that actually is rather good already then wasting money on a low skilled but highly potential player.

Hope that my long response will help you. But most important is that you wait until next season with starting up a good long term solution on your training as your current players are nothing to build on in the long term as I believe it when I looked at age and salary. But a 20 year old player are possible to train so you could keep one or two of them and have them as starters in important matches and let your trainees play in less important matches from start. Important also to have older players in other positions if you want your team to do really well as they are much cheaper to buy.

Last edited by Jokehim at 8/17/2009 7:39:27 AM

Everybody says its not worth training 19 year olds I strongly disagree. Especially for a new team starting out.

I got my team days before the season 7 draft so this is my 3rd full season, my strategy has been to train guys that i could buy for cheap, pop their skills a couple of times and make a great profit. Then buy better trainees, and really good players in the positions im not training.

I have now gotten to the point where i have good trainees albeit not great, but again i'll most likely be selling some players off and training some more. Also the positions im not training, which is the big men. i now have 2 10k plus players and my sf's salarys are pretty misleading as they have average or better in pretty much every skill. By doing the turnover the way i do buying the better big guys helps me stay competitive as i re train guards with higher potential which again means more profit.

If you look at my transfer history you will see how the evolution of players i have purchased and sold has progressed, i have done what some people call "day trading" but it was just a circumstance where i was on and happened to check the transfer list and a great buy was available. I think this is huge if you really wanna get your team up and running quickly.

The place where i have made the most of my money though is buying say an 18, 19, 20, or even 21 year old then training them for literally maybe 2-3 weeks, sometimes only 1 and they become that much more valuable to sell.

I also have a level 5 trainer and they pop very well and its a great value if you're going to employ the strategy of turnover that i have decided to go with as it saves you $1 million plus by not buying a level 6 or 7 trainer.

One critical component of this though is deciding whether you're gonna train big guys or guards and then coming up with a training program for them. For example i train guards, i'll train one on one, then next week i train jump shot, then one on one again, then maybe jump range, then one one one, then jump shot, then one on one, then pressure, then one one one, jump shot.... it goes on and on.

One on one trains pretty much everything so thats why i do it so often as it helps make the specialized training like jump shot pop quicker as every week you're getting a little training there. Its different for big guys obviously. Which leads me to....

Your big guys look like the best trainees you have so maybe go with them and either keep them for the long haul, which isnt the best idea as with their age and current salaries its probably best to train them sell them at what you deem is their highest value. Buy better trainees to either keep or turnover.

I will say this, their seems to be a ton more people training big guys so guards seem to have more value, that is just my observation. Big guys can be had for fairly cheap based off their salary compared to a guard with the same salary. You cant go wrong either way.

In looking at teams that either started when i did or were playing before me i believe im moving pretty quickly through the game. My 1st season i made the playoffs, 2nd season i won my division, this season i could have made the playoffs but i decided to try and tank for a better draft pick and im gonna wind up in the 5th seed (lesson learned haha) but next year i really feel as though i can compete if i keep doing what i have been and turning over my roster.

If you want some advice or have any questions bb-mail me. I'm happy to answer questions if you want and i can tell you some more about my strategy if you would like to try it as taxes and things like that are critical to making money my way.

Best of luck,



Southpaw

Last edited by southpaw17 at 8/17/2009 9:41:39 PM

Hey Southpaw, thanks for the help, Ive sold a few of my guys. I bought a couple cheaper players. I really need a direction to go though for next season. Maybe look over my roster and help?