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well, sort of.

The effect of potential is hotly debated, but it has been my experience that training is capped by salary and slows down with age. So, in my experience again, a young player with low potential will get hit with his cap earlier, one of my players hit it at age 19 unfortunately, but an All time great might not have hit his soft cap yet by age 22. So, an all star will have a 50k salary by 21 and then it is no longer efficent to train him to 150k. After 21, In my opinion, each year a player loses his trainablity, and by 21, he will be hopefully fully trained so you can start again with some fresh 18 year olds.

Again, others will say differently.

i could say you, that it it hard to train allstar guards to the cap till the end of 21(you could get it with high starting skills and singleposition training) and for sure i need stronger ones, so training older player should be senseful.

And i believe the thread opener is talking about players, who starts later with training, and so the point of view is questionable too, when you don't say that you have to start with 18 with training.

well, sort of.

The effect of potential is hotly debated, but it has been my experience that training is capped by salary and slows down with age. So, in my experience again, a young player with low potential will get hit with his cap earlier, one of my players hit it at age 19 unfortunately, but an All time great might not have hit his soft cap yet by age 22. So, an all star will have a 50k salary by 21 and then it is no longer efficent to train him to 150k. After 21, In my opinion, each year a player loses his trainablity, and by 21, he will be hopefully fully trained so you can start again with some fresh 18 year olds.

Again, others will say differently.

Are you training your 23/24 & 25yo Centers still? I can only see one PG age 18 worth training on your roster.

I think after 22/23 it depends on what you want to achieve from the player.

A couple of extra skill ups might take longer BUT give you an on court advantage in close games by tipping the ratings in your favour. A couple of extra skill ups might make that player stand out a little bit more on the transfer list and yield you an above average return. It really does depend. With the training profits reducing, you could do far worse than sticking with your 23/24yo and polishing them into the completely finished article. Then either use them or sell them. The players on the market that ARE NOT fetching what they used to are the players that are 23+ that prospective buyers know theres 2-3 pops left in them but they dont want to do the work themselves. (I am one of those people). So i believe the rewards are there to see the training thru to its absolute end.

I wouldn't recommend training older players at all, but circumstances for me are dictating that I do, with better-than-expected results.

I have a 25 y/o center that has 4 pops in the last 10 weeks, and I expected him to be past the cap to boot.