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It is a risk, but you have to definitely go all in when you decide to get your draftees. I had about $600k in the draft and points used for this season, made sure I had the top pick, and the first two picks I got netted me $5.5m so I came out significantly ahead. You obviously can't do that every season, but it is economically sound to do so every few when the points are there if you're in a position that relegating for a season will help your team long term.

How much different is it in a micro your draftees been good over time. I have only had one long term USA player and since we been entering deflation and them flooding the market with better USA players the USA market has been trash and they can never at least compete with global entities. USA market has been trash for a long time this is why you never see us hoarding the USA players and China always pick pocketing them for national team prospects.

Yep definitely worth it if you do it smart.

You need a lot of luck actually. I have seen way too many drafts without any decent high potential players and some where the best players where Perennial All Stars.

Also with all due respect training mid and lower potential players won't cut it at the top and I know since all my trainees started as 18yo or 19yo HoF and I train 3 of them. In D1. While making the finals twice in the last 3 seasons.

I think going for draft picks is only really viable in bot leagues where you don't get penalised for tanking and you pick ahead of the bots. Then, if you ALWAYS have the first pick and you scout every other season with a lot of points, sure you will find that 5/5 A+ prospect 7'0'' PG or 6'5'' PF every now and then. In competitive leagues it won't work.

Even 5/5 prospects may turn out to be not that great, like a 45 TSP MVP. Trainees' grading is made by salary and not TSP. Which means a 5 ball A+ player may have a lower TSP than a worse graded player, because he just needs the skills that add salary. It wouldn't be bad if they changed the skill level to reflect TSP instead of salary.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 4/21/2018 1:40:09 PM

Atlas you seem like one of the “lucky” people we are referring to. But how much money do you spend on a good trainer for these draftees. You had Micovic for 10 seasons, assuming your trainer makes 80-90k a week that is like 10M+ whereas if you didn’t train him and just had an advanced or superior trainer for 20-40k a week it would only be 2-3M in trainer costs.

Totally agree with you. Unless you are in a micro nation and really want a trainee of your nationality, you don’t need to scout and can just buy a good superstar/MVP trainee, that fits what’s you feel like training. No having to be forced to play a PG trainee PF or C because his inside shot is atrocious, or something similar. Drop a few extra dollars and get somebody with no holes in the skills of you feel like it.