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There really is no wrong or right way of training, which IMO is the beauty of the game, train whatever you think is important to you.

Most people though tend to save the FT and stamina trainings for the off season and midseason (during the all-star break).

Leagues get filled in serially, and IV.37 was just filled in, so you are probably about the same level as the other teams skillwise. Some of them just happened to take over a team with a better or worse record. If you look at the other team's schedule you can see when the team name changed, which is when they were assigned a new owner.

I'd try to stay in the Top 4. You will get a game or two extra and some money from attendance. New teams get $50,000 extra per week for the first 4 weeks, so you might not be doing as good economically as you think you are. You will also get a big payday from your TV game. When I was in IV, I would lose money most weeks and then get out of debt with the TV game.

New teams can have pretty poor stamina, so it may not be a bad idea to train that, especially if you have the players who will be with your team for a while. Stamina is one of those things where you kinda know you should train it, but don't necessarily get the chance because you can train something else.

As was mentioned, some teams do team training at the All Star break or at the end of the season, because there are 2 to 4 weeks with only two games per week. Since you can do less regular training those weeks, it may make sense to do team training then. After a few seasons, you will be more in maintenance mode, and only need to train stamina once per season (stamina does drop, but very slowly - less than one level per player per season).

At the draft, you will probably get a player or two who will have really bad stamina. So if you train stamina now, you will be behind later.

Just a little bit of FT might be enough to get by. Awful appears to be a 50% FT shooter. I've heard of Atrocious FT shooters who were under 10%.
The game engine has been programmed so that the trailling team will foul in the last minute or so in hopes for exchanging one or two FT for pointers. I'm not sure whether the offense will try to get the ball into the hands of the better FT shooters, or whether they'll foul the weaker FT shooters.

Edit: I think season ticket sales depend on the full season record. I started with 3 games left in the regular season, won all 3, but I think the fans didn't like the 10-12 season record. So a 0.500 record could be worthwhile.

Last edited by jimrtex at 7/8/2008 12:12:18 AM

I've heard of Atrocious FT shooters who were under 10%.

He is pitiful. Sigh.
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I just trained FT over the all star break and had a prominent FT guy shooting 63% after the training he is shooting 96% so never under estimate the power of FT training

I've also had an Atrocious FT shooter shot 17% from the free throw line but make 32% of his threes with awful outside shooting

What you really have is a guy shooting slightly below average before ASB and then slightly above average since the ASB. One training is not the cause for this difference.

Absolutely....as the sample size increases, I'm sure he'll trend toward the appropriate percentage. I'm guessing game shape and maybe experience might also effect the FT percentage.

Steve
Bruins

I have an atrocious free throw shooter. He was drafted last year. He did not make a single free throw until I trained it for one week. I don't know if players can actually have zero skill in something or if it was bad luck and he should have made 5% of his shots or so. After one week of training he is still atrocious though....

My two atrocious FT players are a combined 2-49 on the season. I think they each made their FT the week or so after I trained it for the first time as well.

Also I had a player who had a 0 rating in Stamina once. It still registered as atrocious though. He was 30 and a crappy SF who I cut, Jeff Martin. (2677200)

I trained FT my first 4-5 weeks here, it hasn't improved my team much at all. However, it has improved individuals. I've just switched in the last week or so to train jump shot on my two most valuable players.

A SF currently playing out of position at SG and my PG.

I don't claim to have training figured out, just thought you'd like to know that despite weeks of FT training, most of my team still can't hit from the charity stripe.