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First of all, forgive me if there is some obvious place to find the answer to these. I have looked but I didn't find anything conclusive. Feel free to scream at me, just provide a link, too! :)

1. Basically, I am coming from Hattrick and I am accustomed to the set-up over there. One game where you field your best lineup and one game (friendly) where you field your trainees. Simple stuff. Here we have two games and I hope to find out how you veterans balance out your player's time.

2. Should I treat training in here the same way I do on HT? IN HT, I sell out everything for defense. That's how I like to play. So, I spend all my time training defenders.

Now, I do things a bit differently - and probably to my detriment - in that I keep five starting defenders (of basically any age) and then have my compliment of five 17-year-old defenders to train instead of 10 trainees that are coming and going from the team. BB seems a bit more suited to that type of style, keeping a contingent of starters and some trainees. Am I correct?

3. Likewise, since I play a 2-3 zone and favor slow, defensive games, would I be wise to simply load up on inside trainees, train inside defense all the time, and sell the trained surplus to improve the other positions? Or is this game more suited to switching training up to improve the team's weak spots?

Thanks again for any help.

1. Basically you want 48 minutes for players that are training. Therefore, keep your best team on the floor for those two real games and put your lesser trainees in the scrimmage. Overall, you want your trainees to get at least 48 minutes to optimize your training. Sometimes this doesn't work out since you want to win games as well, but you'll be able to address that as time goes on.

2. You should treat training based on position. So you can train guards, small forwards, or center/power forwards. So if you train C/PF you have 6 potential training spots to fill the 48 minutes (though this is really hard to do, you will most likely get 4 trainees to get 48 minutes). The best trainees are obviously the youngest ages of 18/19 but players train well up to about 24.

3. DO NOT TRAIN ONLY ONE SKILL. This is very important. You can look in the help section and that will tell you the most beneficial skills for each position. Therefore if you train C/PF you should rotate skills between IS, ID, RB, and SB.

That's about all I can come up with at the moment. Now I must leave to drink many a beer.

Enjoy, I have some Magic Hat #9 with me right now!

I appreciate your advice, it clears up some questions in my grey area.

Training in BB does not directly depend on the tactics used. So unlike HT where if you are training defenders, you will use a 5-4-1 or 5-3-2 (or a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 if you actually are interested in winning) you get the same training in BB regardless whether you play 1-3-1 or 2-3. Your tactics will of course have an effect on the game results, which will in turn have an effect on substituions and playing time for training.

In BB, if you train more positions, the training per position is slowe. It is unknown whether the overall amount of training is less or more.

Because basketball is played with 5 players in a small area, all players will benefit from all skills to some extent. You can't have two players playing defense and two players playing offense, and the 5th passing the ball to them. In BB, a player without balance in his skills will be a liability.

Positions are also more fluid. A player who is a "SF" will play inside sometime and outside other times. So if you are concentrating mostly on outside skills, you might consider using a SF as your 5th or 6th trainee rather than always worrying about getting a 6th PG/SG into the scrimmage.