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I do agree with you on this. Training is much faster nowadays (not to my liking too) and yet the coin has two sides - that does make game progress a little easier as many users want it to be and also it allows for the development of new winning strategies. The downside is that starting skills matter less and less and potential matters more and more. Thus those very high starting TSP 19 y.o. players will indeed be great at the early stages but later on their TSP will still be limited by potential. And that's something that will be perfect for U21 national teams, as they will then have to actively scout 19 year-olds as well. Right now I do not believe that a 19 y.o. draftee has a shot at U21 at the top level. Correct me if I'm wrong.

If something should be done, it would be better to simply increase the probability of drafting a high TSP(70-80 range) 19 yo

Well, that is precisely what I want too. And what I described is a way of achieving it, as ~30-35% of those 19 year-old picks will then be in the range 60-80 TSP(right now with a 8.99 max this percentage is ~12%), with only 1 in 350 being over 80 TSP. There are numerous ways to approach the change. And we can discuss and refine the ideas at a later stage. We should not forget that some ideas are much harder to implement in code than others and our new BBs do have quite a lot on their late right now. What I'm interested in currently is whether such a change does have the support of the community. I would myself consider further steps only if at least 70-80% of the votes are in favor and right now it seems we are right at this threshold.

I do not think that the proposed change will lead to an avalanche of additional great players in the game. It's main idea is to promote interest in the draft, make it a lot more balanced and a little more "fruitful". Right now probably 90+% of all users who invest in draft still completely disregard 19 year-olds (I know I do). And a large portion of the community completely disregards the draft, preferring to save some 70-140k per season which is insane... Knowing that even 4-th, 5-th or 6-th picks could give you a shot at a good prospect might even discourage hardcore tanking to an extent as Bro_Khen mentioned and probably reduce trainees' prices a little. All good side effects.

I appreciate the discussion, guys! Keep it up.

Last edited by mink0ff at 6/24/2021 9:37:19 AM

I don't understand your point here : 19 yo have the same probability to have MVP, HoF or ATG potential than 18yo.

Exactly. My point is that although 19 y.o. will have slightly higher starting TSP, that will not result in higher end builds.

It's not common, but it does happen already. A couple seasons ago, I almost put one of my french trainees in the U21 squad, despite drafting him at 19yo. And he started with a very low TSP.
Scouting all U21 squads for the past two seasons to help the french one, I also saw a few players in those squad who were drafted at 19yo.

I agree - it is possible, yet not at all likely. I guess the vast majority of those players would be very tall pure centers and the most relevant increase there would only be ID, IS, RB, SB all + 0.5 (from 8.99 to 9.49 as max) which is just 2 TSP in primary skills, which taking elastics in consideration will only result in less than 1.5 TSP gain @ 21. It is not too much imo. Certainly not enough to make them more viable than 18 year-olds starting with 7.99 on primary skills.

Last edited by mink0ff at 6/24/2021 10:34:01 AM

Totally agree with ur suggestion. The users who disagree fail to see the big picture here. 19yo draftees are at a disadvantage compared to 18 yo. Almost none of experienced NT trainers choose 19 yo draftees because 18 yo is much faster to train, especially with gym and youth trainer. It is obviously unfair advantage since youth trainer and gym give % extra on the initial amount of training

Last edited by Cobra Kai at 6/28/2021 8:45:20 AM

We are close to 100 votes here, so I want to keep this alive for just a little longer.

The draftee market is on fire right now, so it's a good time to make observations. Here are mine:

1) There were/are some pretty good 19 yo players on the market. They are not far off the ones already being trained for a season but still I haven't yet found a guy that I would preffer over a ~50 TSP 18 y.o.

2) Max TSP for an 18 y.o. draftee (9+ pot) trained for a season -> 77 (currently 16 players on TL over 69TSP).

3) Max TSP for a new 19 y.o. draftee (9+ pot) -> 69.

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A summary of the suggestions in the discussion:

9.49 as a new limit is probably better/safer than 9.99

A max TSP for 19 y.o. (~70-75) to make sure there are no exceptional 19 y.o. draftees

As an alternative: keeping the current max (8.99) but rising the overall TSP of 19 y.o. somehow


Based on this info I maintain my disposition that we need to see the overall quality of 19 y.o. draftees increased once again (nothing drastic though). Looking forward to some more comments and votes!

Forgot to mention a very important point:

Buying a 19 y.o. reduces cost of training (you only pay for one season of youth trainer)

This adds a crucial decision-making step, which is great imo. One can easily still get 15-16 pops at a minimal cost (4/4 coaches, no gym). That means 70+ TSP after one season of training on a 54-55 TSP 18 y.o. draftee (those are quite common). And there no 70+ 19 y.o. draftees right now - none.

Thanks for the feedback! I hope we will find the best way to make 19 year-olds viable (but still not better) prospects.

I totally agree with the OP. My two cents on the current issue is this

Ive trained two 18 yo with lvl 5 basic trainer and lvl 6 youth trainer.

First one got 16 pops first season and the 2nd player got 18 pops

At 19 yo (second season) first got 11 pops and 2nd 12 pops

I also trained a 19 yo with the same lvl trainers and he got 13 pops

My training routine was mostly one on one forwards, 6 weeks od , 3 weeks handling, and few weeks JS guards or forwards

So if we want 19 yos to be slightly worse than 18 yo my estimation is that we need to increase their total tsp by 25 % minimum to 35% maximum

More accurately 11/16= 0.69 = 0.31 % less pops for first player

12/18=0.67=0.33 % less pops for 2nd player

To be even more accurate we could also have a strict 27% minimum to 30% maximum which also almost eliminates the random factor of sublevels of a draftee.