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In my opinion there is a too big interest in high potential players.

I second that. I myself have "experimented" with different potentials up to the highest and currently there is absolutely no benfit in training superior potentials. In almost any league you will have a star player if this guy has a salary around 40-60k, and this level can be reached with "average"-potential "all-star" after a few seasons.

While the former might be right the latter is going to be something that I could hardly agree.

Training high potentials to maximun levels do have and important impact on performance. And while it might be true that a 40-60k player is a star in many leagues; that is not true for competitive first division leagues, where are supposed to be playing most of the high-potential-well-trained players.

Last edited by Zero, the Magi. at 8/14/2009 11:06:22 AM

I agree that you need better players than 40-60k in higher divisions.

What I do believe is that to become a really good team you benefit from training your own players. I find it hard to find correct profile available on transfer market and it is not because of high prices that I find it hard to buy high profile players but it tends to be single-trained players there. If you instead train most of your players yourself you don't need to buy and selling the players usually don't bring so much money is my experience, especially do I doubt that someone will pay much more for a MVP potential player with $50k salary than a $50k salary player with allstar potential as teams with such economy must have difficulties in training players and also to afford if their players get higher salaries. I do at least believe that there is a limited possibility to increase the salaries.

Considering the difficulties in getting much money if you sell a $120k player instead of a $40k player I do believe that you can't really train a player to sell at that level. What I would then believe is a logical way of building a team is to have 5 trainees and to have 1 or 2 that can be $150k players and the rest $40-60k players that could either be kept or trained longer. If that is the strategy there will be no use of a player better than allstar potential for the $40-60k players. You might need 1 or 2 top potential players though but right now it feels like everyone is opting to only have Superstar potential or better as the prices on the transfer market are very much higher for high potential players.

But maybe am I wrong when I think that the transfer money for a $40k allstar potential is not much lower than for a $40k MVP.

But maybe am I wrong when I think that the transfer money for a $40k allstar potential is not much lower than for a $40k MVP.

Very likely.

I'm not sure if all the people who is buying young high potential players has ever think that they will be part of his team when their salaries reach 150k.

What I do think is that many teams already started in the very lucrative bussines of training high potential players in order to sell them to top teams that can not afford the lost in competitiveness when training 18-19-20yo players but are very consciuos of the need they will have to fulfill of superstars. A very reasonable strategy is to buy a 20-21yo player already trained of high potential so you could continue to train him until he reaches his cap and you actually have the chance to personalice with your training.

Those team are willing to pay much more money for a MVP of 20-21yo 40k salary than for an allstar that probably would never be of interest in the first place ;)



Last edited by Zero, the Magi. at 8/14/2009 11:44:13 AM