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Date: 8/21/2012 12:20:02 PM
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I'd love to get some opinions on this guy. I love that he is an MVP, hate that he is 19 and doesn't have a better skill set to start. But, is he a keeper (I am committed to training considering the state of my team) or should I look at other prospects.

Juán Thomas (26043482) Small Forward

Weekly salary: $ 3 719
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 0
Age: 19
Height: 6'7" / 201 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable
Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: average
Handling: atrocious
Driving: atrocious
Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: atrocious
Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: inept
Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: mediocre
Free Throw: inept
Experience: atrocious

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224799.2 in reply to 224799.1
Date: 8/21/2012 4:59:59 PM
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First of all, he will not be an SF because his HA/DR/IS are all at atrocious. If you get sick of looking at those three 1s, you can train HA/DR to a level you are more comfortable with.

Second, if you want him to be a guard, make sure you don't make his JS/JR/PA a lot higher than the other skills. This will eventually cause his salary to spike and eat up cap space.

I would recommend training HA/DR until they are at 3 or 4. Since they are so low, the elastic effect will help both skills pop a bit faster. Then I would go with a rotation of JS/OD/PA up to 8. Then I would go back to HA/DR until it is at 6. Lastly, I would try to get his skills as close to each other as possible so the elastic effect doesn't negatively affect him. Just getting HA/DR to inept and JS/OD/PA to strong will probably take close to one season to do. He can be a good training with time, you just need to have patience.

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224799.3 in reply to 224799.1
Date: 8/21/2012 5:00:54 PM
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If he's a keeper or not depends on the state of your bank account. If you have money to spend you can get better prospects in the TL for sure. But that doesn't rule out giving some training to this guy, because the MVP label will fetch $ in the TL should you wish to sell him. He has atrocious HA, DR and IS, so if I were to train him I would start by giving him a few weeks of 1x1 for Forwards, to try and raise those 3 skills.

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224799.4 in reply to 224799.3
Date: 8/21/2012 5:09:19 PM
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Thanks for the advice guys. I've read about he elastic effect but don't quite recall, I know its somewhere in either the manual or help. Can you briefly explain it.

Which guy would you focus on more, my MVP or this guy. And should he end up being a Small Forward.

Luk Van Khai (25275885) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 673
DMI: 57600
Age: 19
Height: 6'7" / 201 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: mediocre
Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: inept
Handling: average
Driving: strong
Passing: average
Inside Shot: strong
Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: strong
Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: inept
Free Throw: respectable
Experience: atrocious

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224799.5 in reply to 224799.2
Date: 8/21/2012 5:10:00 PM
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Thanks for the advice. Any thoughts on my other question.

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224799.6 in reply to 224799.4
Date: 8/21/2012 5:53:51 PM
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The elastic effect is basically if, for example, a player has one or two primary skills higher than the other(s), and when they try to train that/those skill(s) that is/are higher, it takes longer to pop because the primary skill(s) are so much more higher than the other primaries. The other way it works is if a player has a group of primary skills higher than one primary skill. Then the user trains that lower skill, and the skill that is lower starts to pop faster than the usual rate until that skill is close to the other primaries.

To answer your second question, I would focus on this allstar at first, because he has better skills to start with. He can be trained as an SF. Later on, I would focus on the other player. Lucky for you, the other player is an MVP, and can be trained longer.

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224799.7 in reply to 224799.6
Date: 8/21/2012 6:25:32 PM
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can you train an MVP past 24

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224799.8 in reply to 224799.7
Date: 8/21/2012 6:31:24 PM
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If he hasn't hit his ceiling, sure.

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224799.9 in reply to 224799.7
Date: 8/21/2012 6:36:08 PM
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If you train them in a balanced SF build, I think they can pop until they are 25-26.

From: rcvaz

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224799.10 in reply to 224799.9
Date: 8/21/2012 6:40:19 PM
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Yeah, even longer if you focus on secondary skills as well

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224799.11 in reply to 224799.4
Date: 8/22/2012 9:04:30 AM
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If you want to train those two together, you'd get two solid SFs...

They both need only three main things to be good: Some OD, some ID and ton of 1 on 1 for SF/PF. If you can give them that, you will have good players, but not very soon. You can finish them with some RB, JS and PA.
Good thing about 1 on 1 for SF/PF is you can train 6 players with it (I'd recommend five because someone always gets injured or fouls out) and when you pass to 1-position training, sell two or three trainees for profit.

The MVP guy needs at least two seasons of 1 on 1 to be any good, so if that's ok with you, he should be good.

Last edited by Koperboy at 8/22/2012 9:06:36 AM