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Ps i heard and this can or cannot be true so don't quote me... but the TV contract money is determined by how strong the league is there are many factors in that (ranks of teams in the league, strength of schedule etc,) but more important and i don't know if this is true someone told me that Performance in the cup as a league affects the TV contracts of that league. So the more teams we have go farther in the cup the better our TV contract money will be next season. Again that could be wrong but i heard that

And yet here I am quoting you.

The TV contract has been determined to be a percentage of the total league salaries when the salaries are updated at the start of the year. I don't remember the exact percentage, but I'll start checking around the various cheese mics to see if someone else mentions it. fnord.

Why would anyone? 70% training? No thanks.

A better idea would've been to allow teams to hire a 2nd trainer.

well, what's the issue? teams can't train rookies or else they'll lose games? you can make that less the case by one trainer training game shape and the other training positionally. alternatively, you could train both guards and bigs at the same time. it would actually be advantageous to have a very young team with a lot of young talent, instead of just 2 or 3 players.

Training all those players at the same time and increasing their skills would increase their salaries dramatically at the same time. You would not be able to keep a team together. I train my guys , the salaries get to high and I have to sell. It is a constant cycle for me. We need more income cycled into the teams. Players should be able to cut deals with sponsors like Nike and others. This way you could sustain your very good players. These outside contracts could help pay the higher salaries.

I have trained PF out of position some already with Joe and he's popped every week but one. My personal opinion the 90%, 80% doesn't hurt that much if you are doing it as single position training on an 18 or 19 year old ONLY. once they turn 20 the hit you take in training based on age would make doing out of position pointless and take FOREVER. So my idea or thought is if you are trying to train out of position do it for the attributes that once they turn 20 you can't and wont train single position only. Again just my personal logic on it.

I think you BOTH are onto something. The 2 trainers thing i dont agree with, it makes it a challenge to find young players mins during your cup run which adds to the game. if you want to train your rookies lose your cup game and train them in scrimmages.

However I do think it would be cool to have the option for a substantial fee to have a player specific trainer OR a skill specific trainer. In real life thats very much what training is. A team drafts a guy and they assign 1 specific guy to train just that person so I think you should be able to hire a trainer that focuses just on 1 guy so you dont have to worry about what position you play him in etc at no penalty if you pay the extra money for a player specific trainer you get 100% training for your 48 mins whether its a PF training in ball handling or a PG training in rebounding or Shot blocking. and then you'd still have your regular trainer who would do our standard 48 mins training and penalty for out of position training etc...... the only other idea would be to have skill specific trainers. So how trainers can do career extension etc. There could be a Jumpshot specialist, or ball handling, rebounding, etc. In real life there are certain coaches who are better at teaching something than other coaches. To get one of those coaches BB would make them more expensive of course and they would get a hit to something else as a penalty. So the Passing coach would get 110% in passing but his penalty would be he trains outside at 90%. Or the jumpshot coach trains jump shot faster but trains driving or ball handling a little worse.

Lastly Homeboyz you make a great point that training your players heightens your salary but guys you draft and train you get a bonus on merchandise. I make REALLY good merch money because tommy is drafted and trained by me only. But i do like the idea of adding 1 additional income category ONLY for teams who draft and train their guys. Not just more income randomly so teams could go out and BUY more expensive players. So if you draft him and train him every 2nd or 3rd season you get a "charity donation" because that home grown guy works in the community and someone rewards your team for his contributions. Again just throwing ideas.

Training all those players at the same time and increasing their skills would increase their salaries dramatically at the same time. You would not be able to keep a team together. I train my guys , the salaries get to high and I have to sell. It is a constant cycle for me.

it doesn't have to be like that, you can train secondaries to keep cost down while continuing to increase the player value and production.