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Hi,

I've been training one of my players for about 2 months (maybe more) and he hasn't popped on trained position.
It is one position training. I've replaced coach, still nothing.
Is this a bug or is he just at his limit?
Player: 22 yo, perennial allstar, current salary: 54 508.

Sounds like he has capped.

He's likely capped. To be sure, you ought to try the "salary estimation" tool on buzzer manager (http://www.buzzer-manager.com/) that will show how much of your player's potential has been filled out.

Do perenial allstars normally cap around 50k salary? I just bought myself two to train and it seems low to me.

Just chekced it out on the faq above:
How does potential work?
Potential acts as a cap on training. Different potential levels cap out at different skill levels. So an MVP can be trained longer than an Allstar potential player. There is a rough salary estimate corresponding to the cap for each potential level. Once the skill set of a player reaches a particular point (The soft cap) that is equal to the potential level of the player, training really slows down and it becomes ineffective to train the player anymore.

0 Announcer: < 6k
1 Bench warmer: < 8k
2 Role player: < 13k
3 6th man: 15-18k
4 Starter: 20-30k
5 Star: 35-50k
6 AllStar: 60-80k
7 Perennial allstar: 95-140k
8 Superstar: 140-220k
9 MVP: 215-315k
10 Hall of famer: 500k+
11 All time great: 1M+

The above is a rough estimate of potentials and where they cap at. Note that centers are generally capable of attaining a higher salary than guards.
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Anyone has new info on this or simply disagrees?

Those numbers are out of date
perennial all stars will not come to the higher of those totals any more

The cap is based on skills, not salary. The easiest way to check is to go to (http://www.buzzer-manager.com) and select your preferred language, log in with your username and your BB access key (not password!), and then choose the "Tools" menu and choose salary estimator. Choose your player and it'll tell you approximately how much of their potential they have reached.

Thanks to both! There are still some other issues in this for me though.

Okay, the faq is out of date. And i'm aware caps are based on skill rather than salary. And I'm also aware different sets of skills may lead to different salaries, but 55k still seems pretty low (bare in mind this cap was reached two months ago, probably before salaries were updated, so it cant be argued that he could have caped during season).

I'm not going at this as a protest or as a specific case study, I'm just trying to get a better notion of what I can expect from the two perenials i just bought. Is 55k weird for you guys as well or this pretty much what i can expect?

Another thing I'm curious is this: I'm unsure if i read this somewhere else or if i simply made it up, but is it true that a caped player, lets say a C, could train other skills such as jump shot and still have some success? Skills that are not important to his specific position.

One other thing: from what i read as well, caps don't make it impossible for you to ever train those top skills again, it just makes the training speed way slower. By that should i understand more than two months for a pop or is it usually not that slow? Anyone with experience training capped players?

Thanks again and in advance