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Thanks sleet.

This is incredible. I am really grateful for you guys taking the time to help like this. What a great community.

Yeah, I realized a little too late that Soon was a bit old for complete training, so I'm just looking for some solid play from him or any point guard and look for something in the draft. If I can get solid from him while I train a youngster I guess I'll be happy. It's just painful watching these guys I have now even try to bring the ball upcourt.

Really, you guys don't know how much I appreciate the insight.

I would cut your roster down to at least 14 players. IMO 12/13 would be best. You will not be making the playoffs and therefore don't need 18 players to play in two scrimmage games a week. It will also increase your weekly profit.

Last edited by Mike Rice at 6/30/2011 5:46:04 PM

...What a great community....

I've played just about every online sports manager game, and one aspect where BB stands head and shoulders over the rest is the quality of the community. Frankly, it's not even close really.

I would also suggest you cut your roster down to 15 players. IMO 12/13 players is best. You can get more weekly profit by cutting or selling some of your scrubs.

One more vote on the "cut yo' roster down" bandwagon.

The one thing I'd encourage is trying to avoid paying more than a few thousand for anyone you bring into your roster, except maybe for a high quality trainee (and even then, don't splash out a ton). Making a mistake on a guy that cost you a couple thousand bucks isn't bad; making a mistake on a guy that cost $300k is pretty bad.

Sell the Italian guy!

train your other two youngsters, till you get better ones by draft or buy some after draft at the transfer market. Don't spend much on talents and never buy older than 18. I would buy at your level for max. 50.000 per player.

reduce your roster to 10. You get three prospect from the draft. So in the new season you will have 13 players. That would be enough for three games a week.

I'm not so sure I'd never buy a player older than 18. I think the right kind of 19 year old can be trained into a pretty effective player for USA D.V and D.IV during his 19 and 20 year seasons, and if you keep training him I bet he would easily be effective into D.III. I've been training two 19 yo this season, and even a 20 yo. They're all popping about the same frequency within the margin of error due to unknown sublevels, and height and elastic effects. They've all become solid players, I predict they'll be good next year, and very good with one more season.

The key is to: not pay very much (the two 19 year olds were 5K and 9K), and to look for the right starting skills. I judged their starting skills not only by their salary (both had 4K+), but also that slow training skills like OD and JR were already pretty good, and their secondary skills were good. Also, no skills lower than inept, other than FT (I figure at some point I'll binge on that and ST with a cheapo trainer).

Buying 18 year olds like this would obviously be better, but it would be a lot more expensive. That's money I decided to plow into my arena.