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I have completed my scouting in preparation for the Season. The 12 guys on the team now will be the core of the team for the season. I have 6 more spots and I'm still deciding how to use those. I may give a few to some of the young prospects coming up and keep some so I can save any Big Man prospects that might be on a team going bot.

I want to share with everyone what I'm seeing for the future of our team. It's pretty worrisome and we need to take action to fix it now. When I look at our prospects age 22-25, there are 8 players with guard/SF skills that are currently 90 TSP or above and have potential and time to get to 120 or above. So we're in fairly good shape of for guards/SF.

On the other hand for bigs its not good. in the same 22-25 age group we have 4 prospects. they are Sup/PA level and owned by teams outside Japan. Current TSP is between 70-80 with a max potential between 100-110. So we are looking at a big fall off on our front line in about 5-6 seasons.

However, there are a few good prospects under 21 today. All but 1 are on Japanese teams now. Four of these guys are on U21 team. 2 owned by Swoosh who seems to be the master developer of Bigs. I have bookmarked all the guys who could be valuable to us and will notify everyone if I seem the posted on the transfer list. There is 1 guy owned by Jaygon (last logged on 3/20) and 1 guy owned by Saitama Kobatons (last logged on 3/28) that we need to watch. If their teams go bot we should try savings these prospects.

I will reach out to all the owners of these bigs and let them know we are interested in the being trained for NT. Yellowcake I will send you a list of the guys I found. Probably you are already aware of them.

If any of those young bigs go on the market, I can take one on. I have a spot open on my training group, with Torii/Tomioka being worked at the moment.

There is a guy up for sale now. I posted him in the player ads.

He's a bit over-priced, and not particularly good beyond the 3 primaries... but I put a bid on him. I don't think I'll go beyond that tho', should bidding break out.

Thanks, you saved me from having to bid on him. I already have three trainees running and he would have gotten a heavy dose of guard training for the first 3-4 seasons...... Now I don't have to make the tough decision for country this time. I do think my next round of trainees will be Japanese bigs though.

No probs. I said I'd help out on a good trainee, and despite where he's starting - he could end up pretty handy.

He'll be getting a heavy dose of guard training early on any way. Torii/Tomioka are my trainees, and they've had quite a bit of inside stuff already. My main guy's Torii - and he needs key guard skills to be higher!
All good tho'. I think that cost-wise it's most efficient to do secondaries first for either guards or bigs.

Last edited by malice at 4/16/2014 5:24:14 PM

Well... I got him.

That's great, now he will have a real future.

Great job, malice... I was focusing on Kobatons (33169496) in case that he won't log in and the player would put on the list. Well, he came back and let him play. I guess the boy will get some training now...

Well... he's not much now, but I figure around the time K-Mat's starting to wane, NO will be starting to look pretty damn good.

Tonight we have our second game of the season against India. India's world rank is 81, but from what I can tell looking at them they probably have a much better team than that. I think their team has probably been mismanaged the last couple seasons. This will probably turn out to be a competitive and challenging match up for us.

In roster news...... We have 3 guys this week who are at average game shape. I cannot accept players with lower than baseline (respectable) game shape and as a result these three players will not suit up for the game. This will be my standard policy on game shape.

As a result, I will call up three players to add to the National Team roster. I will be calling up Soichiro Motoori from Kitakyushu, Yushiyuki Miura from Mythical Man-Month, and Ichiro Ekiguchi from Stunners. This will potentially be Miura's first National Team appearance if he makes it into the game. Congratulations to all three for making the team this season.