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No, you missed my argument badly.

first of all, 5 star potential is nice for NT, but 3 star potential playesr in reality are very good too (sure some got loopholed in and outdid their potential such as some NT centers, but many people ive trained from 18-22 straight and still pop regularly and have good years of training in them)

anything at all star or higher is probably going to be trainable for a long time as a guard or small forward.


I'd also argue any player with a B ranking and 3 stars of potential or higher is a training worthy player. I've sold worse players and watched them get trained (Mack grimes being one example if u look him up)

So in reality, most teams get 2 players pumped into their team each year that are probably trainable, inflating rosters at unsustainable paces. I am not a top team but I am pretty darn close (top 50 or so i bet in my country out of 1000)


Id argue that these kinds of players can find roles even with big teams. If i had 4 star 3 ball potential guard and i drafted him, id slot him as my #6 guard right now, and he'd get trained plenty in non-competitive weeks, and intermittently in weeks where i really needed to try to win at least 2 games (and still would get 30 minutes in a friendly)

i guess only time will prove me right.

i don't look forward to being right sadly.

There is something that you are missing here. There may be a ton of trainable players created every draft. However, the vast majority of them do not get trained. I would say that in Canada, only 5-10% of the trainable players have historically received training. The players either get fired, end up on bot teams or the owner just never bothers to train them.

I'm sure it is the same in many other countries. Go back to the season 2,3,4 drafts and tell me how many of those players are still around? How many of them got training? How many were trained enough to be starters on a division I team?

So you may find lots of trainable players, but if they never get training, the market flood that you describe will never happen.

On the other hand, there is probably no point in investing in scouting.

that may be something youre right about. maybe if there were sell on fees for the owner there would be more incentive to train and sell players you woudlnt train

i can only speak from my own experience..

my "mother club" team, could easily be in nbba or most any division, and would beat the crap out of my current team

Funny. To me, there are the few trainable draftees :)

I have taken part to 4 drafts so far and I have only been able to train 1 of my own draftees (and only as sixth trainee).
This season, out of 3 players, the best defensive skill I got (both ID or OD) was inadeguate. I surely don't want to waste my time on players like that :)

Last edited by Newton07 at 11/24/2008 3:20:01 AM

That's amazing, because there is no such skill level as inadequate!

he meant 4 (inept?)

probably mediocre. I trained 2 guards with far worse outside d with success. I sold the players for 5 mil lasts season. One started with atrocious d

sorry, I meant inept.
Thanks for trying to get my point ;)

I was just giving you a hard time.
I did get your point.