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Happy to be re-elected (wasn't that hard without any opponent ), we will have a difficult season ahead.

There aren't too many 21-years old who have the skills to play the U21.
Currently the U21 has 8 players :
PG // Pascal Schnitzler // 21-yr // € 21.814 // Wellington BK (Sweden)
PG // Lukas König // 21-yr // € 11.498 // Spirits and Souls

SG // Tobias Winkler // 21-yr // € 8.239 // Crazy Crocodiles (Utopia)

SF // Art Bizjak // 21-yr // € 13.230 // Trackville Pandas
SF // Simon Tischler // 21-yr // € 7.454 // Danube Gorillaz

PF // Benjamin Bell // 21-yr // € 10.020 // Simplebox
PF // Markus Gattermayer // 21-yr // € 7.656 // FirstImmo

C // Thomas Buchegger // 19-yr // € 7.377 // Myslenice Killerz (Poland)

And that's the best we can offer this season !!!

As you can see (by f.i. the salary) the skills aren't that good, especially at the inside positions.
This means:
(1) We will loose most of our games
(2) We will loose our 50th position in the WR
(3) Therefore next seasons we will get more difficult opponents
(4) If we don't train more players in more positions, it will be even harder to get some wins next seasons..
(5) In the 'Big' NT we will have the same issues.

I've made an inventory on the talents Austria has, Upcoming days/weeks i will contact the managers with players with potential 10-9-8 what the plans are for there talents. Will they train (hopefully yes!), and if not, are they willing to sell.

The best talents that are trained will be elected in the U21, meaning they have more change in gaining XP.
And of course the team will receive a little more money in merchandise.

I hope the Austrian community appreciates the existence of the U21 and NT and will help to make it BIG again

Some data of the Austrian players -21 (data 03/09/2016):

Potential
(Between the brackets age 18/19/20/21
Potential 5 : 38 players (5 / 18 / 6 / 9 )
Potential 6 : 61 players (12 / 24 / 14 / 11)
Potential 7 : 50 players (8 / 19 / 10 / 13)
Potential 8 : 32 players (6 / 12 / 7 / 7)
Potential 9 : 19 players (1 / 8 / 5 / 5)
Potential 10:12 players (1 / 2 / 7 / 2)
If only half of the pot. 8/9/10 would be trained, we would have a great U21

Height
Tallest player : 221 cm
Smallest player : 175 cm

Countries in which the 113 players with 7+ potential play:
Austria 87
Utopia 7
Poland and China 3
Spain and USA 2
and several other countries with 1

Teams with most potential players
4 players in Meidling Parrots; Wiender Bulls; Thalassa Josefstadt; Anaheim Destroyer and FirstImmo

Skillpoints
Highest SP (Total) : 86 (2 players)
Highest SP (Inside) : 36
Highest SP (Outside) : 72

Hi Rovali!

I wish you the best of luck - the U21 is somewhat of a lost cause with such a small number of managers. The talent pool is too shallow and many decent rookies don't get the training they need.

I think the competitive part of our U21 should be somewhat of abandoned in favor of giving the players with the best long term development the most experience. Probably a very unpopular opinion and who knows if the XP effect is even worthwhile.

I have boosted the XP of a few players in the past - Bo Taylor for example has an XP of 6 at the age of 25. I could not find a player of same age with same/higher XP. Does it help? I don't know. The sudden emphasis on XP makes me a bit suspicious though

Ich hab das seinerzeit mit dem Böhler auch gemacht und da habe ich kaum Spiele gewonnen - wenn es einen Unterschied von 2 XP-Stufen im Alter von 25 macht, wäre das Modell U21 nur zum Minutenfressen langfristig sicher das Beste. Alternativ müsste man dann von 22-27 diese Tortur durchziehen, da sind die Spieler für das NT noch nicht weit genug.

Ich werde meine Utopia-Sinnlosmannschaft dementsprechend ausrichten, da gehts ja um nix. Hoffentlich laufen die Einnahmen in 2 Saisonen so weit, dass ich dann junge Österreicher kaufen und hochschleifen kann.

Nix gegen den Böhler!

Hätt gern wieder so nen Spieler

Nix gegen den Böhler!

Hätt gern wieder so nen Spieler

Der war damals seiner Zeit einfach weit voraus.

Hi everyone,

After a lousy season for the U21, caused by a lack of good players and a training-gap,
the sun is beginning to shine for the future. Let's forget this season fast.

We only had 2 wins, and a lot of lost games. Time to turn that around with this squad next season:

Point Guard
38804092 Philipp Wiesinger 21y CB Schnubu II
38804101 Ilija Neusser 21y SBG Promqueenz
39557539 Kevin Weber 20y HGB Nerds
39557543 Attila Probst 21y Best Freaking Team Ever
40401902 Arndt Stolz 19y Hightowers

Shooting Guard
38803962 Erwin Wurzinger 21y Thalassa Josefstadt
39557714 Daniel Schneeberger 20y Lerin Pallo

Small Forward
38803933 Kevin Völkl 21y Spirits and Souls
38804090 Tobias Haller 21y Arcos Timberwolves
39557643 Michael Langer 21y 功夫篮球

Power Forward
39557555 Vinzenz Knopf 21y Hightowers
39557580 Maximilian Mitterman 20y Thalassa Ottakring
39557601 Thomas Buchegger 20y Myslenice Killerz

Center
39557615 Andreas Geyer 21y Bisamberg Torpedos

I expect a lot more next season with this team, and the season after that will even be better !!!

I will post more info next season..

Good luck everyone in the upcoming draft,

AND CONGRATULATION TO TUFNATOR / LA_LAKERS WITH HIS WIN IN THE AUSTRIAN BUNDESLIGA

Rovali

I've had a look at the draft-results and selected all the 7,8,9 and 10-potentials.

The 'results':

Potential 10
4 players, 1x 18y and 3x19y. Avg. 46 TSP Tallest player 201cm

Potential 9
4 players, all 19y. Avg. 52 TSP 2x 206cm.

Potential 8
7 players, 2x 18y and 5x 19y. Avg. 48,4 TSP. 1x 216 cm
One player listed :(41215521)

Potential 7
16 players, 4x 18y and 12x 19y. Avg. 48,3 TSP.
Listed players: (41215423); (41215513); (41215454)

There are 24 level 6-players (16x 18y; 8x 19y), won't scout them but will watch the DMI.

Besides these new draftees there are currently 47 players on my shortlist, able to reach the U21.
Most of them are PG / SG. The tall players are mostly trained to be 'all-round'. This means that they
get trained on Handling / Passing / Drive instead of the inside-skills.

I hope and expect to get some good results with the current squad !