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Since no one really gave you a good answer to your second question:

When you choose to train on team training, it simply means all of your players will train for a full 48 minutes, even though they might not play for this ammount of time. You however should not want to train team training only, as this will train your players very slowly, and will not really help you in the end.

Since you've just started, what I want to advice you is the following:
- Get yourself at least a level 3 trainer, possible even a level 4. Once you feel you are able to financially move on, go to a level 5 or 6 trainer.
- To get the hang of how to train players, pick 6 players you want to train. The younger they are, the better it is. You should start off with 2 position training, where the training will be slightly slower then with 1 position training, but as you're just starting off this will help you create quite a few good trainees, which will be able to start your team off in the first few seasons. Once you feel you need to move on, go to 1 position training.
- To give your players a full training, what they need to do is play 48 minutes in a week on the position(s) you are training on. This is only achieved by letting them play as starter, backup and reserve. Change the player who does this for every match, and hope they dont foul out or get injured. When you are doing 2 position training, make sure you have a lineup of 8 players, once you move on to 1 position training, make sure your lineup consist of 9 players. Set your tactic to "Strictly follow depth chart" and "let them play" for the fouls. If you don't lineup the right amount of players or don't set the tactics like this, your coach will substitute them and it will be impossible to have all your players hit their 48 minutes of training.

Remember that if they hit 47 minutes, they don't get 47/48 of the training, but a whole lot less

If you need help on how to train your players and in which skills, feel free to drop me a PM, in which I will be more then happy to help you start off. I am a scout for my National Team so I know what I'm talking about, even though I have been playing this game for just 4,5 seasons.

Something else I want to give you is that Gameshape is very important. To achieve great GS what you need to do is let your players play a total of ~55-70 minutes. The higher their GS is, the better. Players who play less or more then the previously stated amount of minutes will see their GS drop due to being overworked and/or being underplay thus not having the 'feel' of a match.

Last edited by Sluuge at 8/12/2012 7:55:45 PM

right on, but isn't 6 really, really hard? I mean I say 4 is a good place to stat off with, I mean, a lot of things could go wrong:

Walkover
Foul Out
Injury to a teammate, means he'll be subbed at another pos.
Injury to himself
etc. etc.

With 4 it'll be much, much easier while still getting the pops

I may next season train C and PFs like that.



well thats what I say, trying to keep it as simple as possible.

Even thought this is like my second season on BB, I know a lot about the game, cause I read the manual 6 times and the thee guide 4 times..........and have a good memory. but still, I think he just buy 4 P.allstars, build them into a guard or big ( i like bigs, but some other like guards, it's a debatable issue;) ) then train them for a season, sell one of them, then 1 pos. those 3. thats a good strategy.

Ofcourse of lot could go wrong, but why only pick 4 while you could have 6. I am currently doing 1 position training for 2 PG's and a PF with low potential who I want to make an allround backup player.

I break this up into 2 pieces however, where I will always make sure my U21 player gets his 48 minutes, as well as my 18 year old American. Should they foul out, or get an injury which doesn't last until after the match, they will play starter/backup/reserve depending on how many minutes they still need.

For example, my U21 fouls out:

- Played ~36 minutes, still needs 12 minutes, so I will play him backup+reserve in my scrimage to make sure he gets the 12 minutes, but doesn't get too many either.
- Played ~ 47 minutes, still needs 1 minute, so I will play him just as a reserve in my scrimage
- Played ~ 10 minutes, still needs 38 minutes, he will play starter/backup/reserve as this is the only save way of knowing he gets 48 minutes of training.

Should this situation come up, my PF will be the one who doesn't get full training. Pick 4 main guys and 2 extra trainees, or as in my case pick 2 main guys and 1 extra trainee.