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I had typed a long message explaining why I'm doing 6 trainees, but halfway through I needed to quickly do something else and when I finished my message and clicked "Send message", it logged me out and I lost my text =/

In essence, I just started playing halfway through last season so I'm spending my money on my arena and only had a little money invested in trainees. I bought a couple of star potential trainees with decent/good starting skills for very cheap, but because of their low potential I thought it wouldn't hurt to train 2 positions. The salary is not wasted because I need players to play games anyway, and if it's not trainees then it's vets I need to buy. In my league these 6 trainees combined with 6 vets do well enough to compete and get to the playoffs. As long as I don't need better trainees/players to compete and fill my arena, I'll keep investing my money in my arena :)

Yeah it's because I drafted this guy last offseason that 2-position training has become less ideal, because he can really benefit from 1 position training whereas my other trainees with just Star potential don't really need it I believe. I'll see if I can sell 3 of the trainees for a decent price, and if I can I'm switching to 1 position training. So as suggested I'll focus on 1v1 and JS the rest of this season which are 2 position in any case.

Thank you for your advice on the skills I should aim for. Do you think it's smart to build him as a LI player, or should I rather try to adapt another offensive scheme that better fits this guy? I'll be buying other players later on so I can still form my team around another offensive scheme, if it is better for my guy.

Also, any thoughts on the ID discussion? Just leave it be?

OK thank you for your insight. I personally like passing as well, especially on bigs I think it's a big plus (no pun intended).

The salary is something I'm getting more aware off, and I'm investing every dollar I can miss in my arena to be able to sustain my players as they grow. However, I haven't been able to download the Salary Calculator from the Help Programs topic (neither the old or the new one), as the RapidShare website says the download is not available or that the request is denied by the uploader. (I can change the URL to let the download button appear, but it doesn't work and the file size becomes 0.00 mb). Any other place I can get it?

These are my 2 players.First one was picked up a couple weeks ago second was own draftee, both were drafted at age 19. I recently sold my other trainee for 1.3Million, any ideas on how I should shape these 2? How many weeks per skill etc? (Both will get pops this week in ID, last week did not pop).

Zhuo Wenbing (29226899)
Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 823

DMI: 20400
Age: 19
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: strong

Jump Shot: average Jump Range: awful
Outside Def.: awful Handling: atrocious
Driving: respectable Passing: average
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: inept

Experience: pitiful


Philippe Joron (26110780)
Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 5 368

DMI: 38900
Age: 20
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: proficient Jump Range: pitiful
Outside Def.: inept Handling: inept
Driving: mediocre Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: average

Experience: pitiful

I would advise you to rotate skills, unless one of the skills are far behind. As for the first guy, I think you could make a good PF or decent C out of him, but you would need to get his HA up to inept. If you want him to be able to defend against well-rounded PFs, his OD should be at 6. His stamina may also be a problem, but you can just train that if he gets injured or when he is 22+.

The second guy could be a nicer PF/C combo with a bit more OD/HA/DR/PA. I would try to get them to 6/6/8/7. These are loose, short-term goals to shoot for, and with their potential, you can make them higher.

6/3/3/1/7/6 8/7/6/3 1/4
9/2/4/4/5/5 9/7/8/7 5/6

Based on how they line up, i'd say OD is important for both at some point not too far down the road. Big's who can play center well are pretty common place around D.III and D.IV on the US side, guys who can defend decently on the outside are not so much. Giving yourself a chance at that all around player might be worth your while.

I would advise against HA training for now, if you are unhappy with the 1 HA and it only pops once in OD, train a little Driving too.