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Well, come end of the next season to beginning of the one after, I'll be changing over my team a whole helluva lot. I can see 1 player surviving the purge. Will my team survive in Div II? I doubt it considering how long it'll take me to find the pieces I want. I'm going to be patient and make sure I bring in the players that fit the profile I want perfectly. This will surely cost me a lot of games.

And I will also be switching over to pure SF training. I plan on starting slow. As of now, I'm looking at buying 1 SF 18 yo, then buy another 1 season later, than a third one a season after that. There is 0 chance of surviving in Div II training up 3 18 yo trainees in ID/OD/whatever else, so I plan to stagger it a bit in a futile effort to survive. This will also allow me to buy players who are relatively young (trainable age still) at other positions and train them up. Big guys that lack a little D, guards that lack a little D. Also some Rebs and JS/HN/DR. It other words they won't have to necessarily be finished products, for the first season or 2 they'd get training half the season.

I considered buying a 20 yo, 19 yo, and a 18 yo SF trainee, but everytime I look for what I'd want, there is nada. So I'm going with the aforementioned route. And of course, I'm going to do my damnedest to stay American, home grown. Not sure I"ll be able to however.

This will most likely be the last bit of training I do considering the timeline I expect it to take in order to train up the SFs to the levels that I want. Many moons will shine before this is done, and knowing my past (taking into account HT), I'll be burnt and done. But it should be interesting, if not painful, if not fun.

So, in summation, enjoy my presence while you can because I don't expect to be around much longer than another season or 2. And things won't be looking up, so to speak. But at least it'll keep me entertained, can't say the same for anyone else ;)

your analysis is good but partly flawed. i originally thought like you, but you can't deny the game income is tempting, and keeping an arena semi-full depends upon some decent performances.

the salaries are always a fixed 2% increase a week. so you look at carrying costs, and replacement costs, and the math isnt too too difficult from there in terms of ok prices to upgrade at etc etc

Incorrect.

Salary increases by week:
Level 2 - 1.25%
Level 3 - 1.5%
Level 4 - 1.75%
Level 5 - 2%
Level 6 - 2.25%
Level 7 - 2.5%

You could always sell an injured trainee and replace him, though you're right, there is a lot of loss there. I don't have a whole lot of faith in the doctor portion of the team staff. If anyone has any figures on whether my lvl 6 doc is any better than, say, a lvl 3, I'd love to see them. I keep the lvl 6 around for piece of mind.

What I couldn't really factor into my numbers were things like STH, as I have no idea what type of STH loss could be expected while falling through divisions, how much a team of such tiny value would hurt the TV money for an entire league, what sort of merch revenue to expect, etc.

You could always sell an injured trainee and replace him, though you're right, there is a lot of loss there. I don't have a whole lot of faith in the doctor portion of the team staff. If anyone has any figures on whether my lvl 6 doc is any better than, say, a lvl 3, I'd love to see them. I keep the lvl 6 around for piece of mind.

Well, as I recall from an IRC or forum post by a BB... in the old doctor system, the higher the doctor level, the more likely a "5 week injury" got washed out to something shorter. I don't expect they changed that in the new system. But basically, if you go naked on the doctor, a lot of the +1 and +2 injuries you get with your high level doctor could (but may not necessarily) turn into +3 or +4 or +5 injuries.

What I couldn't really factor into my numbers were things like STH, as I have no idea what type of STH loss could be expected while falling through divisions, how much a team of such tiny value would hurt the TV money for an entire league, what sort of merch revenue to expect, etc.

There were several newly demoted Italy II teams bitching in Globals about losing half of their STHs at the beginning of this season, and losing over half of their gross income from the relegation.

If you're going to 2-position train and lose, why not 6-man training? 48-ing a player isn't that hard, and you don't get messed up that often, especially if you don't actually care about winning.



There just wasn't enough data available for 3-position training (or 1-position, for that matter) when crunched the numbers. Not to mention some things, like RB and DR, can only be trained 2-position (or Team).

If you're going to 2-position train and lose, why not 6-man training? 48-ing a player isn't that hard, and you don't get messed up that often, especially if you don't actually care about winning.



There just wasn't enough data available for 3-position training (or 1-position, for that matter) when crunched the numbers. Not to mention some things, like RB and DR, can only be trained 2-position (or Team).

3 games a week x 2 positions = 6 man training....

I concur, although when I used to double position train, I'd consistently get 5 players 48 or more minutes. But then again I consider the double position training 'the safe route' as opposed to SP training.. so forcing 6 players in there is overkill and not worth the excitement IMHO.

BTW, only foul trouble or injury should prevent a 48 minute run. I've never had a guy pulled because of a blowout. You must have been doing something wrong. Maybe too many players on the bench (should only have 9 or 8 depending on SP/DP training), SFDC, no backup listed. The same ol same ol.