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actually you can train them all the way until they are 28 or so. They still will improve, it just becomes very slow.

If you focus pure on training, it's best to train them at their fastest, which is their first few years.
As I said, every time they age, it gets slower... so even though a 23 year old still improves, a 18 year old would improve much quicker, so if you keep training the 23 year old, you're loosing on training.

I personally buy players who are 22 or 23, and also still train them, but that's because the younger ones are either not yet good enough to play in my team, or way to expensive... But since I am in the top division in our country, I try to get as much succes as possible, and am placing training on the second row. In a while other teams will have been catching up, and will pass me, and at that time I will drop out, at which time I will have to step to an other strategy, and train youngsters in a lower division until I will be able again to compete at high level.

It simply is impossible to win the cup AND to become champ of a country at the same time if you want to train 18 and 19 year olds... . It's a choice you'll need to make at some time too I guess.

I had a 24 year old train faster than my 22 year old.. crazy stuff. Do some players take to training better? For example, some players have a hidden foul a lot trait. My player is now 25 and still popping.. I love it..

actually you can train them all the way until they are 28 or so. They still will improve, it just becomes very slow.

If you focus pure on training, it's best to train them at their fastest, which is their first few years.
As I said, every time they age, it gets slower... so even though a 23 year old still improves, a 18 year old would improve much quicker, so if you keep training the 23 year old, you're loosing on training.

I personally buy players who are 22 or 23, and also still train them, but that's because the younger ones are either not yet good enough to play in my team, or way to expensive... But since I am in the top division in our country, I try to get as much succes as possible, and am placing training on the second row. In a while other teams will have been catching up, and will pass me, and at that time I will drop out, at which time I will have to step to an other strategy, and train youngsters in a lower division until I will be able again to compete at high level.

Okay so what i am getting from this is that the age where it isn't worth the time training players is probably around 23-24. They will still train but unless you have to keep a certain skill level, it isn't recommended to train players 21+.

It simply is impossible to win the cup AND to become champ of a country at the same time if you want to train 18 and 19 year olds... :). It's a choice you'll need to make at some time too I guess.

Well, that is true unless you are jbmrock (BC Törööö) and can win everything there is to win while training three 18 y/o's.

Well, that is true unless you are jbmrock (BC Törööö) and can win everything there is to win while training three 18 y/o's.

this might have been possible in the past, but while players are improving, and become significatly better then the draftees, this will become more and more impossible.

When I started out, my draftee was the best player in my team, a team I played champion with in division 2.
I don't think that these days someone can claim his best player is his draftee and he is playing champ in div 2 anymore.

draftees can just be respectable at highest, and although a 7 times respectable player might still perform real well, I doubt they will be able to win against the increasingly improving teams when seasons pass by...

he would be supported by 4 other players though and the gulf in class between them and the opponents can often mean a draftee can be blended in for enough minutes each week.

As long as you can maintain a gap between your team, and the rest of your country this might be true, but if they catch up each spot will have to be occupied by a player who contributes a max to the game, or you might loose, and 1 loss in a cup game is game over, also 1 loss in the quarters or semis of the POs means...game over.

As seasons pass by, and more and more players will get trained to higher levels, I doubt it will stay possible to win both cup and championship while training 18 year olds...

i agree but i dont think we are quite at that stage yet... this will be another exciting chapter in the game!