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How many players retired who would not have last season? Just curious, do you know the skills and potential of the 18 year old free agent?

I don't know the skills of course, but salary and DMI (after reset) I do know. In any case, last season's criteria was just based on salary, so skills had nothing to do with it. Therefore yes I can pinpoint exactly how many players fitting the requirements last season and likely still trainable (based on salary range/potential) have retired.

I ran a check of the players and teams which were active at the beginning of the season (after the draft) with NT scout.
I ran a check a month later and looked for the guys matching the S30 criteria who are now retired and had high enough potential to be still trainable.
It's funny that it's the same people that continue to argue that something>0 who asked me to provide evidence with numbers back then and prompted me to do this analysis, but have done 0 analysis on this.

Of course, I could also look into all those who have retired despite reasonably high salary (but not as high as S30 requirements) and were not capped based their "position" and age. They will be a lot more of those...

Hmm, what if those players who retired did so because no one bid on them? Just curious, what percentage of players not retiring vs players who would have been free agents in S30 did you get? I guess the something > 0 is just a misunderstanding. Perpete said that there are more 18-20 year old free agents while you mean there are less 18-28 free agents. Sorry, I do not have time to make an analysis so I just state my opinion, which of course can be wrong, but seems logical to me at the time posted. :)

First of all, I've seen one 18-year old player going to the FA. For your information, this player was so good that he was sold $6,000,000! The 19-year old player I saw was sold for over $1,000,000. Both of them were awesome players when they went into the FA.

I agreed with you when you criticized the announcement which was made and wrote that what happens is not what was announced. Even though I don't understand how the FA mechanism works, I share your feeling. That being said, I do not agree with the rest of your statement. You basically complain that there are not enough young players saved from retiring. You are right but this is how it works, the lack of talented young players make them very expensive, that's a fact. What else is there to say about it? You don't like it, we can all understand you and as a U21 NT manager, I share your feeling but that's how it is.

For your information, I have some numbers to provide: over the past 3/4 weeks, I saw 34 players between 21 and 23 who went to the FA, 23 of these 34 players would have retired if the new FA mechanism was not there.

You basically complain that there are not enough young players saved from retiring.

I complain that there are people who argue that there are more trainable players going into FA when that is not the reality.

this player was so good that he was sold $6,000,000! The 19-year old player I saw was sold for over $1,000,000. Both of them were awesome players when they went into the FA.

Well if that 54 TSP HoF did not go to the market I would assume that the requirements are even stricter. I am not surprised that a 60+ starting skill, maybe even around 65, 6'6''-6'8'', HoF+ player could go for $6m. However the question then becomes whether you think it's reasonable that someone claims that we are helping training by saving 18-19yo when the criteria are so strict that 54 TSP players get axed? Unless the criteria have already changed, that is...

And here lies another problem: if a 54 HoF does not go to FA it's safe to assume (because it has been said that the criteria are linked to potential) that a 54 TSP (but maybe even a 60 TSP) Perennial All-Star will not go to FA. Therefore the change only saves elite players, but does not save great players. A 60 TSP PAS can be a monster for a U21 team and there is a lot of people whose like to train for their U21. He could be a fantastic starter on a D3 team and a very good one even in D2.

For your information, I have some numbers to provide: over the past 3/4 weeks, I saw 34 players between 21 and 23 who went to the FA, 23 of these 34 players would have retired if the new FA mechanism was not there.

There are 60 guys aged 25 or less and with potential 8 or more who retired in the last couple of weeks or are playing for bots. All of them would have made it in S30. If I can lower the salary criteria for younger players I guess they would be several hundreds. Note that very few of these are capped and note that a 7'5'' SG with 15k salary at 21yo might be actually be a fantastic player. There players even with slightly lower salary are very good players and are definitely still trainable...

Last edited by Lemonshine at 6/18/2015 2:02:28 PM