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he want top teams have young trainees, since a game fails if you train 22-24 year olds instead of 18 year old. Thats why we should buy d-league places, to put in 18yo who train slow, and probadly loose value through the slow speed and the cost they make. But hey top teams training 18yo again, the world is wonderfull.

But hey top teams training 18yo again, the world is wonderfull.

Well, even that is questionable since the top teams would probably rather train 21-yo players.

is the worry that top teams cant train players from 18 (and remain competitive in cup and tournament), and also maybe that there arent good enough (affordable enough) 21 year old + coming through that the top teams would want to buy and train?

Im not sure this idea would help to change these dynamics.

Something that would help is being there for new managers and encouraging them to train up 18 year olds well. The bigger the supply of well trained 18 -21 year olds that come through the more that will be available for the top teams at affordable prices to train onwards...

Something that would help is being there for new managers and encouraging them to train up 18 year olds well. The bigger the supply of well trained 18 -21 year olds that come through the more that will be available for the top teams at affordable prices to train onwards...

is that really a problem, today?

And with slow training speed and random training which cost money, it won't make much sense anyway cause the gain in value through training isn't that big even today, and with bigger supply and not optional training i doubt you would make a econoically good decision.

The idea is that like on the actual D-League, where the games practicaly does not interest anyone, so is this league.
Hence, there is no meaning of actualy playing.

It has nothing to do with GS management.
As I wrote on a specific week a player could not play on both leagues (or be sold).
In addition, it could be define that one more drawback will be that the GS when returning to the "real" league will be only (and always) "Average" (for example).

Regarding the Training issue you've brought;
Yes, it is (almost) exactly that.
In most cases, the drafted players are just does not worth the hustle of real-training at their team (again - exactly like in the NBA). But, the players are still may be observed as future prospect fot that team, but only if he could be trained.
This suggestion makes the draft a little bit more something that worth investing at. Especially at higher leagues.

Regarding a server issue who had been brought here (by someone else).
Are you realy sure you can tell how much will it cost in server time? I doubt that.
Are you realy sure that the BB-masters will not prefer adding this (or any other feature) that may be worth paying more for better servers? You don't and cannot know.
Any "Real" feature will cost in performance, should we close all this "Suggestions" forum? No we don't.

High league teams do train young players (even under 20). It's more rare than in low leagues, but for two reasons:
1) Low leagues cannot keep training players over 22 years old if they have been well trained before, cause of high salaries.
2) High leagues need to have at least one player with skills of a 22 y old guy to be competitive. Like in NBA, team need experimented players to play the big games.

High teams rarely train young players as a stradegy (and not just by chance) if at all.

As for a D-League team, how can you imagine someone willing to use a player who had an half training. Even more a team in high league. There, we need players who have been trained 98% of the time, not 45% of the time.

I imagine this working exactly like in the NBA...
For the right price, this will be worth it for those teams, and the draft whould have real sense except getting randomly players that an immediate sell is the only thing they can do with them.

Last edited by Pini פיני at 12/9/2011 10:46:31 AM

I don't see any merit in this.

its certainly an interesting idea in principle but it would require thinking about how training would work.

id like to think of a development league about bridging an experience gap or something, for a new draftee rather than providing extra training for skills. or for seeing how they cope with game situations, but then there are scrimmages and private league games which can do this