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One 7ft centre caught my eye but I'm not sure if he is a good move to make for my final 12th player. 25k with MVP potential, Aussie 19 year old. What do you think??

I think you're a young team and shouldn't blow all your startup money on players. There's an arena that hasn't been touched and needs to be upgraded too ;)

You can only effectively train a few players at once. So, you need to get some developed players, as well as some young guys. I'd sell off one of your trainees, and get a couple of older guys. If you go 30+, they get a lot cheaper - these are the sorts of guys you can buy that will win you up to Div III.

For me, there are two priorities for you right now.

1) Promote at all costs. The higher you go, the better the money - significantly better. The quicker you promote, the quicker your team gets good and your arena gets bigger.
2) Pick 2 guys to be your main trainees, and a couple of others as your backup trainees. Put everything into those main guys, always make sure they get 48 mins per week. There will always be issues with minutes which is why you don't have more than 2 main trainees (at least, if you're doing single position training - which is what I highly recommend).

Okay thanks guys. I hear what you's are saying and taking everything in. I'll try to achieve all the advise everyone is giving me.
Now I'm feeling better ;)

What Dire and Rabid have said is 100% correct. That is why I am suggesting choose either Cs or PGs to train then sell the others to raise some cash to start building your arena. This game is very much about money and your arena is the main source of it.

Where would I start to build up my arena? I was thinking with the $ I have atm I would perhaps invest in 500-1000 bleachers as they are cheapest and hopefully winning regularly in dv4 (with the exception of demon soul) it would be easier to sell more of them to fans...
Good idea or crap idea from the new kid?

I am still waiting to hear who is going to be your "star" trainee. But then you need to get three trainees organised, maybe another rotation player, staff and arena all as soon as possible, by tomorrow if possible.

Here is my look at things.

Ullman is a great SG keep him there.
You only have Graig Astle who is good to train as a C (the starter potential guys aren't worth it, really nothing less than allstar is). So I wouldn't train bigs, instead I would sell Graig Astle and buy a cheaper but better player.

Training PGs
Ed Brar 6'0" 6k 19 allstar
Sebastian Hijano 6'1" 3.5k 19 MVP and your draft pick. He was your first choice. You knew you had a 7'3" trainee but you drafted a 6'1" player so you really made your decision then.
You have at least three other guys on your team you can train as well (Whitney Rambuka is the least worst) or but I would suggest just spending a little and for abou $20-50,000 you should be able to get a 19 year old Aussie allstar or better potential trainee. If you are willing to spend $100,000 there is a great Aussie 19 year old for sale right now.

Think of it this way, do 1 position training and purge all your 18 years olds as their potential are just bad or you can keep them if your planning to do DR or JS this season which i wouldnt recommend since their potential means they wont fetch much on the market at all. or you can keep them around just to play.

train hijano and maybe ed brar (depends on his skills, or if you can afford any trainees)

sell off Astle as he doesnt fit your training plan but unless your willing to train his secondaries for the whole season and switch to big man training which means selling off your guards trainees next season. if you sell then you can get a guard trainee, preferbably below 6'7 and allstar potential or above. note: Rambuka might be too old already to be a decent SF but maybe trainable again depends on his skills... most likely not.

the rest of the players are just to take up time so dont bother training your 11k SG since his potential means he will capped out at 18k or so anyways.

get a level 5 trainee since you need to catch up on Hijano's whole season of missed training.

invest heavily in draft since IV have bots who will pick at random so even if you end up top seed and have the last pick, you will still likely to get your top preference.

unlike all the basketball you claimed you are expert in, BB players dont improve without training so no point have youth at every position since they are dropping in value as the seasons goes by.

didnt the forum member tell you not to blow your money but you did it anyways. zzzz.





Last edited by SplitJ at 11/8/2011 10:08:19 PM

"didnt the forum member tell you not to blow your money but you did it anyways. zzzz."

Nope. Not before i did anyway.

Ill show some of my players skills so you guys have a better understanding of them:

Sebastian Hijano (22818086) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 3 545
Role: rotation player
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 8300
Age: 19
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: pitiful Handling: inept
Driving: respectable Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: average

Experience: atrocious

Ed Brar (22818719) Shooting Guard
Weekly salary: $ 5 761
Role: key player
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 14700
Age: 19
Height: 6'0" / 183 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: average Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: average
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: average Free Throw: inept ↑

Experience: atrocious

Whitney Rambuka (22575803) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 5 201
Role: rotation player
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 17600
Age: 20
Height: 6'7" / 201 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: respectable
Driving: average Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: average Free Throw: mediocre

Experience: atrocious

There they are...

Ill train PG's.

As for your suggestion to get one more Aussie allstar trainee by today. I couldnt get that 100k 19 yeatr old but i got:

Cosimo Romaggioli (22818542) Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 4 338
Role: draws a paycheck
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 9600
Age: 18
Height: 6'0" / 183 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: mediocre
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: inept Free Throw: atrocious

Experience: atrocious

So i think i got my 3 trainees organised?
What do you mean by another rotation player?
i sent a BBmail to you with info on my staff and after tomorrows cup match i will build up my stadium as much as i can...

they are not exactly PG just that your training all the guards' skill at PG.

you know how to rotate your minutes right?

when setting your lineup, change the coach instructions to strictly follow depth chart.
and the 3 player will be playing at PG for starter, backup and reserves for each 3 game of the week.
48 = the minimum minutes needed to for full training, anything beyond doesnt add more.

basically just do OD (pressure) until your MVP guard get up to strong at least then we will where to go from there.

so your 3 main trainees are: Romaggioli,Hijano and Brar.

dont bother training the rest of the players. I would suggest you sell off some of your younger players (superstar potential C and SF might bait some money) and just buy cheap fillers since D4 is mostly bots and you dont need anyone good to win.