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ive noticed a manager advertising his new draftee as a future NT player blah blah blah - needless to say noone should believe what a manager claims until you can check them with the NT staff!

I contacted the manager in question a few days ago asking him to get in touch if he wants to train him (as he will be a ridiculous project) or otherwise list him at a sensible price (which he is not at right now).

needless to say i havent received a response, but instead have noticed his exaggerated advert!
Brilliant.

it is a must we keep players like this trained.

with good OD and some other guard training I am sure he will make it into U21 and has potential to make NT

Kevin Flynn (21068846)
Starting Price: $ 300 000
Auction ends: 11/11/2011 22:07:36
Owner: Evergreen Terraceists


Weekly salary: $ 4 880
Age: 19
Height: 6'0" / 183 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: strong
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: atrocious
Rebounding: atrocious Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: awful Free Throw: inept

Experience: atrocious

very interesting to see what he goes for. could be living evidence of the premium you pay for 18 year old vs 19 year old.
looks like he must have got about 8 pops last season, plus two more last friday. hopefully he'll play a full game in the cup this week :)

1.5m as an 18 year old was crazy or is it just me? will he go for over 2m this time?

nope. i very much doubt he will go for more than 1.5 million...

if the elastic effect works as I experienced myself and as other have stated, than he should pop in the other guard skills fast too...

1,5M was crazy due to the terrible secondaries. But still, an 18 year old HOF with respectable in all outside skills is very expensive. An 18 year old HOF with Average in all outside skills would still be very expensive i believe. 6 * Average is probably what you should compare him with. 11 pops from draft til now is not perfect, but it´s not bad at all.

If you´re a believer in elastic effect I guess you´d pay extra. Paying millions for a player who´ll probably never be worth more than 2 million no matter what training scheme you have in mind is never a good idea....

You should hope for a foreign team with a training-motivated coach to pick him up, and save your NT-loyal coaches for other players that have more secondaries. Those are the players that would be a dissaster to lose to a possible future inactive team.

Maybe this player will be a asset for your NT in the future, but I have to think that Guards without OD and IS will not be key players on NT-level in 8-9 seasons..

Maybe this player will be a asset for your NT in the future, but I have to think that Guards without OD and IS will not be key players on NT-level in 8-9 seasons..

yes ideally we will will have in 8-9 seasons time world class players like top countries have right now, but we are a small community in a non Basketball minded country and we have done super when we ever end up in the top 30 in the world

managers with elastic for brains believe the elastic effect as a net positive thing!

Rosen makes a good point - we only have so many good loyal inside and outside trainers. picking their transfer targets should be done wisely to get the best possible players in the long run.

I wish i hadnt bought my player Ahearne (no offense mate, keep up the good work!) as only two weeks later two better players got bot released - and they were better despite having missed 4 weeks training!

just to clarify - for guards is there a consensus amongst managers that starting high in any or all of IS, ID, and SB are good value for money things to have(salary wise) in the long run, where as rebounding tends not to be?

i know for NT the higher them all the better, but at the end of the day the training team needs to jusify their salary...

And for bigs, are there any guard skills that arent value for money? I guess JS and JR can add to salaries and while all players benefit from JS, i guess there is a fairly low JR limit...especially for a centre?

interested in views here!

this is exactly why i cant give you any guidance. you asked me for it and ideally, if i would be NT coach for the next 10 seasons I can give you guidance. But what if I give you guidance as to what I believe is good and than you train the player following my guidance and the next NT coach or the one after that will say no, i dont like this player.

Darryl austin is already transfer listed by his new coach and looks like this. (I will edit this post and remove the stats once he has been sold again or when the deadline to sell runs out).


Darryl Austin (16739976)

Weekly salary: $ 232 215

DMI: 893500
Age: 22
Height: 7'4" / 224 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: inept Jump Range: atrocious
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: inept
Driving: respectable Passing: atrocious
Inside Shot: phenomenal Inside Def.: prodigious
Rebounding: prodigious Shot Blocking: sensational
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: strong

Experience: inept

Like I said, the U21 coach thinks we need more players like this. I say, atrocious passing, atrocious OD and atrocious JR, and lets not talk about the other crappy stats he has. If this is the future off the england NT we can quit today. We need to start somewhere and until we have better, I will use him. but this guy needs to have minimum guard skills something like

respectable JS respectable JR

average OD very high handling

very high driving average passing

and these are real minimums. Off course his big skills are very nice.


Now one other example and than I will shut up because I dont think it is a good idea for me to continue as a NT coach at the end off Season 18 and even far beyond that.

This player is just an example. Put the same player in a salary calculator and put in atrocious RB instead off respectable and you will see a quite remarkable difference in salary. It should be something like 40-60k less. Off course it would be awesome to have all guard with high rebounding, but the player needs to be sustainable at club level too. I dont think this amout off salary warrants the extra rebounding. The same goes for SB on bigs, some coaches (for example the Belgium NT coach runs away with it), I dont rate it very much and I dont think it warrants the huge salary add on it gives... Off course, Ideally we have bigs with lvl 15 or 16 SB (for example) who wouldnt as a NT coach. But again put in level 8 SB or lvl 16 in the salary calculator and you will see a massive difference.

Shooting Guard Chi Yicai (9263411)
Auction ends: 11/11/2011 23:21:09
Owner: globetrottel münchen


Weekly salary: $ 255 249
Age: 27
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: colossal Jump Range: marvelous
Outside Def.: stupendous Handling: wondrous
Driving: wondrous Passing: strong
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: strong

Experience: strong


I hope this helps to answer some questions.

IS for guards doesnt add alot salary and I think a level 11 or 12 IS makes the guard already very useable. The same goes with bigs with level 10 JS and level 7 JR. Same with ID for guards and OD for bigs. level 7 or 8 would do. So in other words. most skills that a super draftee gets when he is being drafted.


Last edited by Astragoth at 11/9/2011 5:59:12 PM

Look at my draftee. Except JR he has it all (handling is very easy to train). The problem is that I cant give him 1 position training that he needs. Also I have 6 guard trainees already and sell all these guys with losses to train 1 player isnt really an option.

I tried to sell him for 1,65 million which I believe he is worth atleast that (i have seen worse draftees go for a lot more last week), and I didnt manage to do so. So what will happen is that I will 2 pos train him and although I believe I can make him a nice trainee, he will loose vital training time. But he really needs 1 position training.

Craig Thom (22793669) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 917
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 11800
Age: 18
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: pitiful
Outside Def.: average Handling: inept
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: average Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: inept Free Throw: mediocre

Experience: atrocious


we have another super draftee that Tide of Fire drafted. and i bet there are 2-3-4 more around this season. Last season there were 2 or 3 as well. The road off succes for england isnt by training players like darell austin. The road to success is to train my draftee for 1 or 2 seasons 1 position guard training and than switch to 1 pos big training and give him big skills like darryl austin. If we can train 2, 3 or 4 players a season like this, we can do better than top 40 or top 35, but so far we have failed to do so and so far I havent seen any england team fork out 1,5 to 2 million for a super draftee and concentrate all training around this player. This isnt criticism because I didnt do this myself and I doubt I would do this myself. This is a fact and as long as other countries like germany train players in lower leagues 1 position (until their salary is no longer sustainable) and than sell the player on to a german team that continues the 1 pos training and that can sustain the salary, we will never be in the top 40 or 35...

It isnt a problem that the talent isnt there, I have seen enough talent being drafted the last 2-3 seasons. The problem is getting them to the right teams, train them properly and than the future could be very bright for the England community...

But it starts with a NT coach running the NT coach for a very long time. Every coach has a different vision about this game and to start all over again every 2-3-4 seasons is unsustainable...

I think its helpful to have posts like your previous one showing what skills are truly desired, i think the role of a mentor in future will be to more directly involved, instead asking for skills update and advising they can help if you need advice on what to train, we set out a road plan for that trainer based on his current skills to ensure we get what we've after.

Of course we could only request users do this and more experienced users might object but is maybe more helpful for more new users and rookie trainers, targeting players who simply are lacking basic fundamental skills like Austin.

Minimum requirements of making the u21 and the full teams made aware to every team with an english player disclosed via the players profile of which the current genetic message which said 'contact the team if you think your player is good enough'

I think the good point about players like robbie sands and austin, is the fact the team is starting to build depth of quality in a position which will set the standard for future players and lead to players like austin being left out in the future.