BuzzerBeater Forums

Well, i got my results today, and one player i was trainning this week was 20, he didn't get a pop and he had perinnial allstar potential. I got a pop from two 19 year olds i was training, they both had all star potential, and they got pops in jump shot. The 20 year old was a shooting gaurd and my other two players were small forwards. One of these small forwards is 6'4 whom i use as a shooting gaurd. Oh yeah, i have level 4 trainer.

Did they all get 48+ minutes in the positions trained (in this case, SG/SF)?

The two that got popped got 48+, i forgot how many minutes the other one got that didn't get popped, but i was mainly training my two wing men and was satisfied with their results. And it was only two wingmen that i was actually training.

Yeah, i've trained them already, and will train them again. But right now, i'm focusing on my wingmen for a while. But i do have a few big men, two power forwards and 3 centers. I've had one of my centers improve in either inside shot or inside defense, i forgot. But right now i'm focusing on my wingmen. I'm working on their jump shot which two of them improved in last week, and their outside defense. I want my wingmen to be my main offensive players, although with training i'll have other positions that score as well.

Ok. you will want to get a 18 yo trainee with at least allstar potential, and trian them for at least 4 seasons. This is more worth your while.

If your not going to train players at one position you have no benefit at all with having young players. In fact this would only lead to you losing games instead.

Just to clarify this bit for the OP, I hope that by "one position" you mean the generic "guards" or "big men" rather than "single-position training". Right?

You rely need to figure out what you want to train in your team. You cant go switching guys you train every week cause you'll only end up not having no good players at all on your roster. You need to at least stick to training the same guys for an absolute minimum of 1 season but preferably 2.
If your not going to train players at one position you have no benefit at all with having young players. In fact this would only lead to you losing games instead.
And the fact that you have three teams ahead of you that haven't logged on to their team for over a month sure tells that your doing something wrong.

not true and true.

switching players you train each week is not bad in this game, this isn't an other famous online manager game where it is not rewarding, training all your players in your team realy can work here (I have done it all the time and have always been in the top of my country untill I decided myself to do something else with my team)
so that part you are telling is not true.
Training players to make money isn't that easy in this game. Good trainees often cost almost as much as good trained players, so all the time and effort you put in them is not rewarded on the TL.
On the other hand, player improve with training, and players are very valuable on the field in this game. But it's just how you want to play. either train a few guys and buy the rest, improving them slowly by selling trainees and buying new players, OR you can keep all your players and improve them by training. Unlike other games both methods work fine in the game!

what is true is that it isn't rewarding to have many young players in the team. Young players are costly, and they require training to keep their value. If you can not train them weekly, you loose money. With young I talk about 18 and 19 year olds.

conclusion: having a team of 20 to 24 year olds and trainnig them all, preferably by training 2, 3 positions or the entire team each week, and training all your players replacing them with new players once they reach 27 or 28 years, rather then focussing on a few youths, is also rewarding.
Because they aren't THAT expensive to buy, and you don't need to buy new players to improve your team, as you are improving it yourself by training. Because players are more valuable on the field then on the TL in this game, this is a working system...
Just don't go wasting money on 18 year old when you choose this system

also at a start.

the key is to sell your realy young players, because you get money from them, and to fire or sell your older guys, and then fire the ones that are not good enough.

then go at the TL and find the players you want for your team. It shouldn't financially be that hard as you are looking for a priceclass that is prety low. The players you are looking for at that time are very valuable on the field in the lowest divisions, but are very cheap on the TL

the reason is prety simple.

most teams get the advise, or think it should be so, to buy 1 or 2 very young players, and start training those.
Because they are expensive they need to sell some average, to good older players. With older I mean the age-class you are looking for, as the older don't fix any money at all. Because this gives a flow towards the TL, and almost no team is interested in buying these (most play with what they have and IF they buy, they buy younger), the market is full of these players which makes them cheap and easy to get.

I'm positive that if you invest 25k, you can shape your team from the start with the right players to make this system work, and if you hire a level 4 trainer, which is also afordeable, I think you'r good.
Don't forget you don't need any money for a season or 3 until some of your players start getting to old and you need to replace them with equally good younger players. In the meantime you can even sell your drafts to raise more money.

If you manage good and win your share of games, you get a lot of income from the games.

I think it's a good way to start off with a better start then opponents because they invest all their money in young players and thus will have a team that performs less good at the start, loosing a lot of money on games.

True after a while the younger trained players will catch up as they train faster, but in the meantime you have been able to develop your team as a whole, and they need to sell their trained players to get money to improve the rest of the team.

In the end, I think both systems work. It's just what you prefer to do.