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Drafts are really a crapshoot. The player market is where to build your team at first. I don't want to give too much advice or take away from the fun, but I would look for a 29-32 year old player with some proficient and/or prominent skills for about 100,000. A star player. You're not going to draft a stud with stupendous skills. The best would be an MVP potential with respectable guard skills that you could sell for a couple hundred thousand.

I am doing the whole pure homegrown thing... Seeing how far I can take it.

All my players are homegrown and drafted.

Nah, think I'll stick te 100% home drafted route. Scouting a only a crapshoot if you let it be...

It's an interesting ambition, and I have heard of teams making it to D-3 with home drafted teams. However, the problem lies in the training. Since you cannot concentrate on training certain positions, every player you train will probably not reach a high enough skill level to progress much farther than that. If you do try to train each player to the fullest...I believe I read in the forums somewhere that someone tried training an entire team to a good skill level. To do this, he drafted big men first, trained them to be as good as possible. Then, he drafted guards and trained those. Unfortunately, by the time his guards were "good enough," his big men were nearing old age and had to be sold.
Of course, if you have no plans to progress past D-4 or D-3, then by all means, continue with your plan. If you do plan to go farther, however, I suggest that you make only half your team home drafted. Either train your guards and buy the big men, or train the big men and buy your guards. If you take my advice, then I suggest training the guards and buying the big men. Centers and power forwards are abundant in the market and thus are also cheaper.

My plan is to ONLY train SF height people through the same basic training plan. And whatever differences they each have they each have, thus varying up my players to fit 1-5

I think you'll find that you will have to be more specialized in a few areas. For examples, your centers and power forwards just do NOT need training in driving and handling ever. They need to be strong in inside shot, rebounding and inside defense. If you train everyone through the same basic plan, rotating skills, you might have everyone strong/proficient after 3 years or so, when you could buy a few already specialized players for a couple thousand. Also, what are you going to do with all that cash even if you spend a ridiculous 40,000 a week on scouting. If you keep expanding your arena, but never get out of D-5, your team won't fill it up.

Last edited by Th3nt at 3/21/2013 11:35:48 PM

That overcomes the position problem, but you still have the problem of slower training speed when training so many people at once. You could feasibly reach D-4 with that sort of team, but getting to D-3 will be difficult. Good luck with your plan. I hope it works out for you. You got a nice base roster, some young superstars and allstars to work with.

Just 3 at a time get the single pos stuff, then when it's a 1-1f or reb or JS-f week 3 extra guys ride along

I think you'll find that you will have to be more specialized in a few areas. For examples, your centers and power forwards just do NOT need training in driving and handling ever. They need to be strong in inside shot, rebounding and inside defense. If you train everyone through the same basic plan, rotating skills, you might have everyone strong/proficient after 3 years or so, when you could buy a few already specialized players for a couple thousand. Also, what are you going to do with all that cash even if you spend a ridiculous 40,000 a week on scouting. If you keep expanding your arena, but never get out of D-5, your team won't fill it up.

You are completely wrong about bigs not needing driving or handling or passing etc.

For one. Those guys turn the ball over a lot when like that.
For two. Now, that would depend on what kind of offense I would be running now doesn't it? Pretty dangerous having a team of 5 guys able to defend inside and out. Shoot from inside and out .. Drive, handle, pass, makes it very hard to defend if I did any offense...

Who do you guys feel are the best players in the league?

Statistically, you can figure out who the best players are on buzzer-manager.com, where you input your buzzerbeater username and access code (can be set in Preferences tab of the Long Menu).

Opinion-wise, I vote on http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/9534254/overview.aspx
Not even my defensive-minded team could really contain him.

For second place, I vote my own player: http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/14754816/overview.aspx
He's basically the key to my team. I play a 1-3-1 with guards at the 1,2,3, and 4 position, which leaves just him to guard the post. He is also one of the passers of my team since I usually run the Princeton. Basically, he does everything and does it fantastically.