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There's a popular federation devoted to discussing Outside Shooting for Team: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/fedoverview.aspx?fe...)
(too bad the federation president is a real jerk & doesn't approve people.)

But all kidding aside, *if* one were to do team training (other than FT or Stamina), a short week is actually the WORST time to do it. (theoretically the only justification for doing team training is to train as many players as possible)

Well, the whole purpose of doing team training during short week is to receive full traiing. EVERY player trains FT or Stamina. Minutes dont play a role, so its good to use during short week

I know, that's why I said:

*if* one were to do team training (other than FT or Stamina)

Meaning team passing, team rebounding, etc... Minutes *do* matter in that case.

I think the question that is or should be on everyone's mind is: have you finally decided on what type of players you're training and decided to stick to it? Or are you still trying to train different positions every few weeks? If you're doing that with a level 5 trainer, you're wasting money -- the whole point of using a higher level trainer is to improve your players faster, and giving them training only half the time just doesn't do it.

Oh yeah i knew what the purpose of having a higher level trainer is, most of the year i was doing one position, on only one type of players. But i had to change last week because i needed my team to be better outside. I wanted to have a balanced team.

Not just to be able to score inside, my team lacked outside offense. All we can do is score inside. First half of the season i worked on centers mostly, sometimes i added centers and power forwards, and for now they're good enough scorers inside. I don't understand how other poeple can stick to just one type of player if they want to have a balanced team.

How can it be good to only have outside scoring or inside scoring? But any way, my team lacked offense from the outside. But actually, i was training driving for gaurds last week, so we can even be better inside with little guys like gaurds, not just centers and power forwards.

I also wanted my other players to score inside as well. I also want to have a well rounded team, so some time this season, i'm going to train both types of defenses. Also just to be clear on one thing, every week this season until this week, i was training my bigs, mainly centers.

But now i can actually afford to spend money, because i rose ticked prices; which doubled my earning's. And i did a couple of arena expansions.

What hrudey is saying - awesome team name by the way! - is that instead of having an entire team full of young players that need to be trained, make a decision. Either posts or guards. Can't be both. If you decide to train posts, sell your guards and buy some established veteran guards or vice versa. Doing both is negating the impact your lvl 5 trainer could be having.

You're exactly right. Because I really want to train posts, and this past week i have been looking at some gaurds to buy, but i didn't see any that i wanted yet, so i'll keep searching and try to find some who are 25 years and older. I appreciate the advice, and i now know what i'm going to do, thanks.

What hrudey is saying - awesome team name by the way! - is that instead of having an entire team full of young players that need to be trained, make a decision. Either posts or guards. Can't be both. If you decide to train posts, sell your guards and buy some established veteran guards or vice versa. Doing both is negating the impact your lvl 5 trainer could be having.

What he said is absolutely spot on. Sure, it would be nice to be able to train everyone yourself and be able to build your own balanced team, but what will happen is that your players will train essentially half as fast as another team who is focused on bigs or guards, and they'll be able to shore up their non-training positions with veterans. You'll never catch up with them that way.

The thing to keep in mind also is that you really shouldn't buy young players with potential in non-training positions; if they're good enough to help your team right now, and have good potential, you'll probably pay a much heftier price than an older player with the same skill set. If they're not that good, and you're not training them, you're just throwing away money on someone who should be a borderline trainee for someone else. Your roster shows a distinct fascination with potential and youth, but what good does an 18yo guard with inadequate skills and allstar potential do for you? Take Nachum Ben-Yaacov - a guy that was discarded by a brand new team and has a salary under$3k. If you're training guards and his skills aren't too deficient, maybe you pick him up, but if you're training bigs there's no reason at all to waste time on him.

I would suggest that if you're going to stick with bigs, do that. Whether you want to primarily single position or double position train them, have enough trainees to make that work (2-3 for single position, 5-6 for two position). Look for some decent veteran players for the other positions and focus on the same trainees so that the investment in your trainer can pay dividends. You'll get there soon enough.

Exactly right, that's what i'm doing, thanks.

my bad, didn't notice that part.