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Don't really understand why Estonia normalled. They're the seeded team and it would make no sense for you to waste enth at this early stage. Clearly they don't want to win the group.

While I'm slow on the match report again (I did talk about it a bit in chat on Tuesday), just wanted to pop in to say - pretty great job on the game shape this week everyone (y)
Just 2 players in less than 8 game shape and 4 in 9 gives us a much better chance of a good performance, and any selection headaches I have this weekend will only be of the positive kind...

Today you can enjoy some data stuff from my scouting at the start of the season.

Firstly 18 year olds: I scouted 80 of these.
Top 3 tsps: 63, 61, 60.
#1 hasn't played a minute this season, I'll see if I can get the owner to sell.
#2 just sold for 86k to a Swiss team. Hopefully he's trained from here...both of those guys just allstar potential though.
#3 is Kim Bujalska (43467086), a HOFer, owned by Porzigod. Has 4 x 48 mins this season at C, getting the inside training done early I assume, which on a 6'1 guy is great. Looks a very nice player, and looks like he's getting some smart training too. Should be a future NTer.
9 players between 55 and 59 tsp (two more HOFers in here)
34 between 50 and 54 tsp (1 HOF, 4 MVPs)
There's an All-time great who started with 48 tsp (0 minutes! The manager hasn't logged in for 10 days, but I'll send a message anyway)
4 more MVPs with either 48 or 49 starting TSP.

Last edited by Bergkamp at 10/22/2017 2:41:58 PM

19 year olds: 89 of these in my database. I'll go slightly more in depth seeing as some of these guys have actually been trained now.

Top 3 TSPs: 75, 72 and 70.
Fod Bartolo: (42675478). MVP potential so we like this guy's prospects.
Thomas Wieczorek (43467649)
Ryan Thomas (43467849)
All 3 being trained in England too, which is a bonus?

11 between 66 and 69 tsp (3 of MVP potential). Shout out to Buddy Arthur (42675708), he has some nice defence/inside skills already and could make the u21 team a year early.
25 more over 60 tsp (7 MVPs and 2 HOFers)
Another shoutout: Craig Ashburn (43467534). At the start of the season he had the most "useful/versatile teamplayer points" (which is OD+PA+ID+SB).
Wieczorek and Arthur join 2 others as joint 2nd in that formula (David Jackson and Jason Chaucer the other two, if either of their managers are reading)

Glad to see Buddy's name popping up. I did draft him but made a decision to sell him due to Mahoney, still nice to see that he hasn't been wasted. Also respect for the time and effort you put into the scouting and the team in general.

20 year olds: 65 in the database. Seeing as 4 of these are in the u21 squad already I might not do specifics. Top 3 by TSP:
Lal (41892365), Gibney (41892030), Dupre (41891821)
Shoutout me for being the idiot who trains the one of the 3 who doesn't have HOF potential? :D

Next 5 are between 77 and 80 tsp, and there's 12 between 70 and 75.
5 of the top 8 by TSP are at least MVP potential so maybe there's some senior NT potential in this age group.

Guards and SFs look great overall, better than this year for sure (see the 4 in the current squad I guess).
However, honestly at this stage I think we might be struggling for big men (so if you have a decent+tall 19 or 20 year old, if you focus on his inside skills only this year he'll probably have a shot at making next year's squad)

Start of the year rough u20 big man depth chart: (sorted by a raw data formula I just made up..)
Lewis Mocarski
Buddy Arthur
Phil Tewari
Fred Gibney
Denny Parmenter
Steve Klebanowski
Charles Brown = Denny Stanborough
Dave Helmore = Ryan Thomas

Anything specific people want to know that we might not want public just PM me. For now I haven't picked a lineup or tactics for tomorrow's game yet so I should probably get on that...

Good to see Klebanowski on there, I trained him to 11 or 12 SB when I had him, really should have picked up a tall guy to train instead that season...
How should these two (from Utopia) be trained to help the team next season:

Neil Banker (42676140)
Age: 20
Height: 6'7" / 201 cm
Potential: perennial allstar

Jump Shot: proficient Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: strong ↑ Handling: proficient
Driving: prominent Passing: inept
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: inept
Experience: atrocious TSP: 76 (44 + 32)

Mathew Tossell (42676213)
Age: 20
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: perennial allstar

Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: respectable ↑ Handling: prominent
Driving: strong Passing: average
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: average Free Throw: respectable
Experience: pitiful TSP: 72 (47 + 25)

Just the 5 match reports to do – good work Bergkamp (sorry all. It was something I said I was going to do...it turns out there still aren't enough hours in the day)

Game 2: Netherlands 80-71 England
I thought we had a chance in this one, but so went with a “normal” effort, but after seeing that I'd walked into a 3-2 zone playing patient (and they matched the effort too) my hope had gone. However the game engine decided to tease me first...
We were 1 point down after Q1, 5 down at half time, but we turned it around to take a 46-41 lead at some point in the 3rd quarter, finishing the Q one point up.
Then we started the 4th quarter on a great 10-2 run (meaning a 9 point lead), but from there they gradually clawed it back. Still had a 2 point lead with 3 minutes to go but barely scored from that point in :(

It was a closer game than the final score appears, and overall we did well I think. Defensively we did well at least. Having 99 shots (16 more than them) and scoring 71 points, not so much...

The starting 5 salaries were 104.5 – 92.7 in our favour, but that's majorly skewed by Lauricella and his exorbitant cost. All of their players were higher than our 2nd highest (Mahoney), DMI was 1133-904 in their favour and you can see in the PP100s we were the underdog.

Lake our top scorer was actually a +4 while on the court, but I'm not rewarding offence in this game, soz (23 points on 36 shots and 3 assists to 3 TO s isn't exactly scorching scoring anyway).
MVPs: 1: Lauricella, 2: Hall. 3: O'Sullivan

Good job dude, looking forward to seeing how the next few seasons pan out under your lead

Just under 40 minutes to go until our last competitive game of this season if anyone wants to tune in?

I've thought about this lineup and tactics way too much, if they're wrong it's probably not due to a lack of scouting, just wrong thinking about it. I only just made my final decisions actually - cutting it way finer than the rest of the season
(but a luxury afforded to me this week as I'm ill, still...been off work since Thursday. I guess I won't complain too much though)

We're playing Slovenia who've beaten the two teams we've beaten and lost to the same 4 so it should be a competitive one to decide who finishes 5th/6th in the group.

A rare opportunity for some in the open insight into my thinking seeing as I'm not giving anything away to the opponent now, and most of these players will be gone if anyone is spying next season...

Their danger man looks to be their 25k PF Barinec (he can score outside and inside and is in 9GS), I'm not sure they have an SF as such, and all of their guards seemed pretty evenly matched - I wanted to use 3-2 zone.

In a way having an easy pick in Lauricella every week has been nice (especially since his improved game shape), but choosing who to play as the 2nd big has been a nightmare at times XD
In a zone they'll just target the 2nd guy as he won't have enough ID/SB so I don't think I can trust it.

Didn't think I could start Mahoney this week due to 7 gs which limits our passing / offensive options a bit. Due to the lack of passing in the backcourt I've gone for as much as I can get up front, also added a bit more shooting than usual with Lake into the lineup. Gone for the inside attack due to lack of passing/Mahoney and also the previously mentioned potential that they have 3 guards and maybe I can exploit their lack of ID. It is quite possible they'll zone us though...