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Don't alternate between training the PG and the SF/PF. Choose a position type to train and stick with it for a while.

The good news is that SFs and, to a lesser extent, PFs can benefit from a lot of the same training as a PG. The SF and PG both need quite a bit of Outside D, and it's very helpful for a PF to be at least decent there. Passing and Jump shot helps everybody. I'd focus on those three (in that order - OD, PA, JS) for now. Maybe add in some One on One after a while.

But, unless you want to turn your PF into a SF, you might be better served selling him and picking up a free agent big man with good defense and rebounding and maybe a third trainee to go with your SF and PG draftee.

I'll most likely have to buy a C. I was looking for C's , I can't get a decent C for less than 500k.

You don't need a C for 500k, that's way too much for your team to handle. A C for 500k nowadays have 40k salary. Try to stick to the rule to build a team that's slightly better than others (if you want to promote, that is). If you build a team what will wipe out entire competition, this mean you have a team too strong for your league and you are paying unecessary costs for salaries.

A C of 15-20k salary and around 300-400k price should be more than enough for your team. If you will look after such C's with age 22 or 23, I bet you won't find any under 500k. But if you are trying to buy an older one (27+), than you will get a good price. Just don't buy players that are too old (32+).

Don't worry about it too much. I jumped in halfway during Season 4, visited the playoffs, got 2 of 3 really good players that happened to have been cornerstones for my team in the future. I went undefeated during Season 5 with really only three good players (2 from draft, 1 from my initial roster) and advanced to League III. HOWEVER, like you, I was a newb but my biggest mistake was that during all of Season 5, I trained Game Shape. I then spent the next 9 seasons up in League III with playoff visits 8 of 9 and either 1 or 2 Finals visits (I remember 1, but there might've been a 2nd). I only recently dropped to IV because of a bad season and thus, I had to sell off some of those really good players that were gonna drain me while in IV.

ur doin it wrong.

Thanks for the insightfully informative post! Care to elaborate or were you really trying to respond to the OP?

I wonder what's the problem with ur team. Even though u started ages ago and spent a lot of time in D.III. u still dropped. What caused that? It must be the money, but lookin at your transfer history, ur in +. How much r your staff salaries and their level?

I'm just wondering cuz u gave good advice to the OP.

Get a couple (2-3) 18 YO trainees with at least 6 potential at the start of next season... they should be cheap then. Then Single position train them. Good ones should be around 100-150k each. If you single position train them correctly for a 2-3 seasons, you could have 30k salary players. I would try to survive one more season in IV. I was in the same position a couple years ago when i promoted to IV. In that same season I Drafted my PG Carlson (his salary was only 3800), and now his salary will be over 40k next season. you could do the same.

Invest another 100-150k in your arena. It will help you get money a LOT.

The league I was in was extremely tough. I survived long enough but eventually my team was too one dimensional. I had one player, Vernon Partridge, that I built to be one hell of a defending center but he had to no jump shot so his Inside Scoring took a hit even though he had a high IS skill rating. He was primarily used to defend the paint and give us second chance opportunities, too one dimensional for a player that was scheduled to cost to $70k+ the next season. My last season in III, I took one last gamble and went after another post player to compliment Partridge. Francisco Candia was awesome but his salary combined with Partridge's, I had no balance on my roster. Too much of my player salary was being eaten up by these two monsters, leaving me know room to grow. So that last season turned out to be a bad season because the teams surrounding me were more balanced in their attacks. They were able to attack me from the perimeter because my first two draftees, Lowell Webber and Clinton Cantrell, were my best perimeter defenders and they were crap that season compared to the shooters they were defending.

So, long story short, I ruined Cantrell & Webber by failing to take the time to train their skills in Season 5, instead focusing on Game Shape (I was a noob). Season 8 rolls around, I pick up Partridge from one of the teams in my league that drafted him, turned him into a 1-dimensional monster, spent my money on some bad investments, gave one last run at making the playoffs, and when that didn't happen, I sold them off to prepare for the rebuilding process.

Basically, I've learned a few things along the way and I've taken a whole new approach. My goal is to lose this affinity with my players and learn to cut the cord rather than staying attached to them. Clinton Cantrell was sold too late in his career, making me far less than what he might've given me earlier. Lowell Webber is older now but he might sell easier despite possibly making me more when he was younger. Vernon Partridge should have been sold long before I did when his price was high but I waited, and because of that, I lost out on a lot of potential earnings. I learned people don't really care for 1-dimensional. I may give good advice, but that advice I gave comes from the teachings of many others over the seasons.