Yep definitely worth it if you do it smart.
You need a lot of luck actually. I have seen way too many drafts without any decent high potential players and some where the best players where Perennial All Stars.
Also with all due respect training mid and lower potential players won't cut it at the top and I know since all my trainees started as 18yo or 19yo HoF and I train 3 of them. In D1. While making the finals twice in the last 3 seasons.
I think going for draft picks is only really viable in bot leagues where you don't get penalised for tanking and you pick ahead of the bots. Then, if you ALWAYS have the first pick and you scout every other season with a lot of points, sure you will find that 5/5 A+ prospect 7'0'' PG or 6'5'' PF every now and then. In competitive leagues it won't work.
Even 5/5 prospects may turn out to be not that great, like a 45 TSP MVP. Trainees' grading is made by salary and not TSP. Which means a 5 ball A+ player may have a lower TSP than a worse graded player, because he just needs the skills that add salary. It wouldn't be bad if they changed the skill level to reflect TSP instead of salary.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 4/21/2018 1:40:09 PM