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Ever since i bought a new trainer i've average only two pops a week, he's level four. I do at least 2 sometimes 3 position training, mainly my power forwards and centers. I think i have decent trainees, some have allstar potential, star and mvp. So how about you how many pops do you average a week?

So i guess 2 pops is average for what you can get with a superior or exceptional trainer?

I normally get around 4 pops per week (including secondary pops). I use an advanced trainer, and always use two-position training, getting all 6 of my trainees 48 training minutes each week (Their ages are 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, and 21). All my trainees are guards 6'5 or shorter, and I train them in a combination of OD, 1-1, JR, JS, and PA.

For you, you have a good trainee in Forest Bowie - he's young, has a decent salary for his age, his height 7'1 is excellent, and he has excellent potential. That being said, I think he's the only good trainee on your team. Moriglia's secondaries are awful (being 6'11, it will take forever to train up his guard skills), and has bad defense for his age. Mahon is also 20 with a low salary, and short height for a PF. The rest of your players are either too old to train efficiently, have low salaries, or have poor potential (below starter).

Being in Div V, its easier to play each trainee 48 minutes, and you should use this to your advantage by buying better trainees. If you cannot afford any yet, I recommend you single-position train Bowie and Mahon (and maybe Paltakis) until you can afford better trainees to replace Mahon and Paltakis. Remember, training significantly slows down after your players reach 22, and players with bench warmer potential or lower are not very worth it to train.

You don't want to waste Bowie's potential and your level 4 trainer by 3-position training the rest of your team. If you single-position train, your 3 trainees will pop a lot faster.
If you are able to get 6 good trainees, 2-position training will work great for you.

I think i have decent trainees, some have allstar potential, star and mvp. ?

Again, remember that training slows down significantly after the age 22. Your all-stars, perennial all stars, and superstars will not even come close to reaching their potential. Don't be fooled by overvaluing potential: your 24 year old SG with 4173 salary and perennial all star potential is worth the same as a 24 year old SG with 4173 salary and 6th man potential; because he will not train efficiently enough to reach his cap.

Here's Forest Bowie

Potential MVP
Game Shape-Strong
Jump Shot Atrocious
Outside Defense inept
Driving average
Inside Shot respectable
Rebounding respectable
Stamina atrocious
Experience atrocious
Jump Range inept
Handlin atrocious
Passing atrocious
Inside defense strong
Shot blocking respectable-pop
Free throw inept

What do you think i should train? So far i've been working on his inside defense. Eventually i want him to be a good passer, at least average or respectable. The pop in shot blocking was after training in inside defense for bowie.

Last edited by Computerized player at 12/6/2010 4:34:11 PM

Around 1 pop/week(with both my trainees together) OD with single training and level 6 trainer.

Can't you just post his skills right?

I train guards, so my advice may not be the best, but this is what I would do:

Options for training:
1-pos at C:
ID (also trains IS and SB)
IS (also trains ID and JS)
1-pos at PG:
PS (also trains HN and DV)
2-pos at C/PF:
RB (also trains ID and IS)
2-pos at SF/PF:
One-on-One (trains DV, HN, IS, JS)
JS (also trains JR and IS)

You could also 1-pos train SB and HN, but I wouldnt bother, because 1) I dont believe SB has a great impact; the SB pops you get from training ID should be enough. 2) Training PS and 1-1 also trains HN, but training HN doesnt train PS.

I recommend training 1-pos first. Once you get more trainees, you can switch to 2-pos training.
So train 1-pos ID and IS. When you get more trainees, be sure to rotate in RB, along with 1-1 or JS.
PS will be hard to train, because you will need to make a sacrifice. Either you play your trainee in a game with his 3 atrocious guard skills (which will probably result in a loss), or you play him 48 minutes in a scrimmage, giving him less playing time in league games. (If you dont mind sacrificing the complete training of your other trainees, you could also play him at PG for a portion of each game, but this becomes difficult to manage.)

Once your main trainee gets a pop in the skill you are training, switch the training; balanced training is faster.

Thanks for the advice.