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Depends what you need to train the SF in. If he already has good guard skills and you only need to train his inside skills he is perfect :)

And for your second question here is the answer straight from BB-Charles:

As part of a new agreement between BuzzerBeater owners and their lending institutions, after two weeks without getting back above -$500,000, a team will find all of their players listed for sale, with the proceeds helping them get back out of debt. Teams will only go into receivership (and get a new, bank-appointed general manager) if listing their players for sale has not brought a team out of bankruptcy be the next economy update. This should have the dual effect of allowing general managers a better chance to keep their team from disappearing and letting banks recover more money when a team goes bankrupt.

ok great.. I was worrying about going into the red only slightly (a few k perhaps)... but even that wont happen now.

I just had a look at your team and you are a few players to many. 24 players is way to much if ask me. Most teams manage their minutes with around 12-15 players max. If I were you I would either sell or fire about 9 of your players.

You have a lot of players under 3k salary, in my eyes players with a salary under 3k are a waste of time so I normally fire them straight away, I'd suggest you start building your team from there.

alright.. I will cut down on the players. The numbers are high because I have been paying attention to the purchasing of better players to strengthen my team. Now that I have an ok starting lineup and bench, I can look back to cut a few of the originals.

in fact i would be ruthless as a starting team probably all but 1-4 of your starting players are worthless

a good way to start is look at every player whose salary is under $3500 click on them it is says their value is something like "rarely sells for more than a few thousand dollars" or "$1,000-$4,000" I would fire them immediately.

look at your team work out who is your best pg, sg, sf, pf and c that is 5

then who is your best backup guard back up sf and backup big man that is 3 more

finally who are your two best training prospects max 2 if they are not already covered

that is 10 players for the rest if they can be sold for $10,000 or more sell them if not fire them right away

do it you wont regret it

only thing you may wish to check is some guys to see if they are worth keeping with some experts

I just purchased a trainee.

*Sigh* I couldnt get some of the great trainees out there as a result of being a newbie and hence not having the abundance in cash.

For a little over 100k, I managed to pick up this guy:

Owner: Randomkings Allstars

Weekly salary: $ 4 090

Sylvain Clausse (11957426)

DMI: 11000
Age: 19
Height: 6'8" / 203 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: respectable
Driving: respectable Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: awful
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: average

Experience: atrocious



not bad?

So, how should I approach training him?
Im doing a stamina session for the team this week and will be playing him in the scrimmage scheduled before training to get as many minutes as possible (and hence improve his training as much as possible). After that, however, I am wondering how he should be approached.

I dont have any other players remotely close to being worth training, so I might as well completely focus on SG and hence reduce the number of weeks he takes to pop.

I am hoping to get a stam pop and get him to awful in this weeks training. After that, Jump shot for a few weeks seems like the best option?

Thanks in advance.

Definitely get your squad down to a bare minimum. if you have 4 players more than you really need and their salary is on average 2500/wk, that's 10K a week going down the drain. And for a noobie, you want to really watch your finances to get your team going so you can buy decent trainees/players and expand your arena when necessary.

probably don't invest anything in the draft too at this stage so you can improve your finances.

As for your new player, the good thing is that he is 19 with good potential. The problem is that he is a bit too tall to quickly be trained as a guard (203 cm) and he is a bit short and has poor big man skills (inside shot, rebounding, inside def) to be trained as a PF or centre or possible SF.

He has OK guard skills so you should be training him as PG or SG. Considering his age at 19 and his height, train him i outside def to start as it takes the longest and if you train pressure (PG), he will pop quickly. Do one position training in my opinion to get his skills moving. But it all depends on how many other possible guards you can train in your lineup.

6'8'' is too tall?...

I had not anticipated that :(. So he will train significantly slower than say if he was 6'6''?

I plan to train him as an SG, but to get his guard skills up, I should probably play him in the PG position and then do only PG training (since SG directly cannot be done for pressure?.. I have to do PG/SG? ,.. which slows?).

So I will try to train his jump shot later, and will focus on outside defense.

I read that for SG, outside defense was not as important as Jump shot, Jump range, handling, passing.
I am assuming that you mentioned training OD as it trains the slowest for a taller player? (in comparison to handling passing etc).

However, for an SG, OD will be important so I guess I will have to play him as PG in a few scrimmages and get that OD up.

Thank you.

The way I understand it, he will not be significantly slower. I have heard that the guard skill that is the most affected by height (training time wise) is handling, and even then it's not a MASSIVE difference, but it is noticeable. I think the rest of the skills should be OK. So if you're going to train him as an SG, he should be OK.

And yeah, when you're training an SG, sometimes you'll have to make sure he plays 48 mins in the PG spot (i.e. pressure), even if it's to the short-term detriment of the team. Other types of training, you'll be able to keep him at the SG spot.

99% good advice, the one thing I disagree with is not spending on the draft. I would spend $10,000 a week to get two sightings. Seeing as you are in DIV IV and half to 90% of the teams will be bots your 2nd and 3rd picks can often be money in the bank and the only way a starting out team can really hit the jackpot. My 3rd round pick is valued at $70,000-$400,000 (although I don't really think he is worth that much) while my indecision about what to do with him has cost me a bit he will still pay for my scouting by himself.

For a starting team I think you need 1 solid player at each position, 2 young and good potential trainees and a level 3 trainer right away. You also want a small squad. As I said before somewhere from 11-13 players is best. Next save your money for a while until you can get either an excellent star player, a top trainee or a lev 4 or 5 trainer.

Actually, now Im thinking he will fit as an SF as well. Plus, I have a pretty decent SG, but my SF is not very good.

He shouldnt be bad for SF in height (same height as Lebron :P)