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I've been in the offsite since 2 years ago, so I have gained a bit of knowledge. I'll start with training RB first then, I'll 1v1 him. Hopefully I can promote this season eventually.

I think that all skills which must be trained in wrong position should be trained first. That will keep salary low and it's possible in lower divisions only. In my country that kind of training is quite common and possible in DIII and DIV only. DII level competition is quite hard and thus training on wrong position is giving all too much favor for opponents. Training in that order will also make it possible that some higher level teams can buy your player later if you decide to sell your "star". Of course also main skills must be adequate for corresponding division level. So do not count on that some team in NBBA will buy your player and continue training towards NT. Training to NT level is always a sacrifice for a team.

Then some words about potential. I have trained some superstar players from 18 to 25 = 7 seasons without any caps. It's question of balance and skill skill distribution. So now counting on that player is ATG and can be trained a lot longer is definetly true. But I have also one MVP player trained for age of 27 and no cap either. So I'm trying to say that training will slow down quite much because of age, you necessarily never need ATG potential, HoF is enough and in some cases also MVP - depends on skill distribution you are aiming. For very balanced players it clear that HoF is definetly enough and you can train until age of 30. If your player is behind in skills already at the age of 20, he will be also behind in age of 30.

If your focus is to get NT player, I think only way is to make some kind of specialist or utilize his ATG potential and make it way over any limits some skills and be prepared to pay huge salaries, but both ones are risky and there is no any guarantees that he will make NT level.

Training for money and own team has seldom same targets than NT team has.

Nothing new in my post, just some thoughts. It has been pleasure to read ideas and discussions about reasonable skill distribution. Only thing I have some thoughts is RB.....you don't need RB if your shooting% is high enough. And you can still get some rebounds with extremely low RB...so I'm not quite sure that RB is right way to go either. It's one of the most expensive skills.

I'm working with some SB>ID players. I really like the results so far. I think this stat issue comes down to what the player elects/tries to do on a given play. I'm still in the hypothesis phase with this, but basically if your player is ID>SB, even with considerable SB he may not block many shots (although he will contribute very well for defense inside).

I have understood that ID will prevent opponent from trying to score, so they will pass the ball or so. Then if opponent still tries to shoot (what ever kind of shot), then SB will again try to lower to probability of scoring. So if your player has "low" ID and high SB of course there will be more shot blocks in the stats. But I think SB is not alone enough. Inside player must have also high ID so that all is not depending on SB. If we take salary formula into consideration, then I think it might be true that SB can be trained higher than ID to get best salary/performance ratio. Also help defense is related to SB at least in some extent?

I just switched this weeks training from ID to SB




Last edited by Codemasters at 10/29/2013 5:54:43 AM

Yeah, maybe I'll train more ID in the future, lets say 15/16/16/14 in inside skills and alot of subs in the future.

I have a lot of 1v1 for him to get up those subs skills real quick. I'll watch his position very closely because he might change to a SF at any moment. I'm gonna focus on getting OD and PA up as well.