I'd think Doncaster is the favourite. He has the best GS and has thrown the last game. I think it's pretty much a given he'll get garbage time against Gully in the Tuesday game which means he can get very good minutes again this week (because he will know whether I'm going for it or not, so chances of him ending with subpar minutes should be low). Gully will have a little more Enth, sinc ehe will PON the next cup game.
I have a little bit of a dilemma: if Verhelst does not recover from his injury by Thursday (which he should, hopefully), it will be very hard for me to beat Doncaster and I won't know this tomorrow. Also if Batley doesn't sell tonight, there is a good chance that if I win the next league game I will go 2 games up on Gully and Zalgiris (always hard to win @ Elmacca, it will be tight). However, I'm not sure if playing on the road without Verhelst against Optic Fibres would be a more difficult game than playing on neutral ground against Doncaster at peak GS.
I'm surprised that I won the last 2 games (the cup and league game), but Banuelos is now the player with the third highest TSP on my team and Brona is the 5th. Banuelos will be the second highest after Marichal at the end of the season, barring injuries. I'm in that sort of period when your trainees get better than some of your starters and you don't notice since you train them week in and week out.
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Needham hit 150 TSP last week. His last plan (that may be slightly conservative after all) involved an extra IS to 151. I'm not sure it will happen this season but IS has already been trained since the last pop. After that I don't know what to go for. ID sounds like the obvious choice since it will have sublevels from IS training and elastic pull from IS, not to mention that Needham is 6'8''. He's 28yo so it's possible to train him for another 2 seasons and hope for pops.
I'm not against selling him to a good English manager to wrap him up, but I'm afraid he will cost more than people are willing to pay and I will have to waste money to keep him from going to some foreign team if I put him on the TL. I suppose we will have to see if this guy
(40886524) sells and for how much. Needham is not better than that guy as a guard, but he is 3 years younger and even after the IS pop he'd only be around 130-140k salary (he might switch from SF to PF formula when that happens but he will still be 97%-100% capped according to Buzzer Manager).