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I disagree with your most basic assumption that it is bad to train guards with big skills and vise versa. Have a look on the TL now for what they would be worth in 3 years if they were well rounded! Their salaries will be lower but their value will be higher. That is assuming that their secondaries are ok. So I would keep the two main trainees and play them once each in the league games for 48+, then the out of position player can be trained in the scrimmage. The 4th player can be kept and just play for you or if you can get a good price sell them.

Ahhhhhhh yes! how true how true! I should probably clarify. I shouldnt use the word 'bad', rather,It would be 'more preferable', if i wanted to train my G as a PG, to keep training PG-based skills, because his current PG-secondary and tertiary are already quite good.

But you do raise a good point! I could very easily keep one of the guards, train him as the third 'out of position' player, and he would become quite a good Small forward.

That is a scenario I had not contemplated, thanks for bringing that up!

unfortunately, because i now have another option for these guys, i am now more confused. LOL damn.

It is the end of the season now, so what did you end up doing?

I ended up keeping all of them. Using one of the guards as my starting PG, and the other guard as my backup SG. So i ended up training the two forwards. They are both quite good players now, one of the guys finished 8th in season MVP voting and im happy how the training season went for them. Ive also managed to get a 7'3" centre in the draft, so i can continue my C/PF training into this season as well. Just have to make sure i dont train them so much (that their salary ends up being too big for me to keep them)

Over the course of the year, having the two guards playing with me allowed me to save quite a bit of $$$. The PG ended up becoming the weak link in the team, and ive just sold him for i think it was $300K - probably not that much different to if id sold him earlier in the season. Just bought myself a new PG. awesomeness!

The other guard im still happy to keep as my bench player at the moment. He managed to get a few pops during the season which has just tipped him that much better than other bench players, so yer, its nice to not have to worry about having a dodgy bench player.

So all in all, im happy with my decision to train the two big men. I finished second last season, so i think im on the right track!

Last edited by Coach Regan at 4/22/2011 1:11:49 AM

You are looking very strong early on this season so keep up the great work.

Yer we shall see! I dont think im ready to come up to Div II yet. All teams ive seen promote this league, to Div II, played TIE all season, and still won all their games.

Im not at that stage yet, but im happy with the way my team is going, and trainee's and hopefully this year I can nab some silverwear at least. Just drew a Div II team in the cup though, so that will be an interesting test.

thanks for the encouragement!