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Perfect, thats exactly what I need and will help me plan out what to do.

I have a very nooby question - do tournament games contribute towards the 48 minute training, or is it just league matches? I've struggled to find the answer through in any of threads I've been reading.

Thanks again!

Thanks again.

I splashed some cash on a Center Trainee just in time for tonight's match and managed to get a full 48 mins on him. I'll grab another trainee over the next week. I think the two players I started with who had the best potential didn't have a great mix of starting skills so decided to list them. I've also acquired a new trainer, although have yet to read up on the benefits/recommendations of the other 2 staff members which is a job for tomorrow.

I'll be honest I think this game is a little overwhelming for a new user. Without you and Ragman pointing me in the right direction I would have been very lost. Thankfully it is very similar to another game I play with the emphasis on training, so I've a bit of a headstart over many new users.

One thing I've have yet to read any text on is how the match engine works. Is there a general opinion that some skills/ratings are overpowered? i.e. is it better to be strong in shooting/defence/rebounds, or will a more balanced approach bring the best results? This is obviously not something I need to worry about too much for now, whilst I set my club up, but later on down the line I'll have to do some research in this area.

Cheers. I think Gorriz has the skills needed for a decent Center. I learn a trick from the help thread to just put him as a reserve and backup for the same position, so he'd play the full 48. I'd be curious to know your thoughts:

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

18yr, Allstar, 6'8"

I've already joined the offsite forums, although not yet posted, but I have been taking a look around. With so many posts its a little hard to know where to start. I did download the Training Simulator tool this morning and had a play around to see what sort of skills I could take Gorriz to on his current potential.

Do you also play Hattrick?

I also didn't get to introduce my name is Kyrie and I this is my seventh season here on buzzer beater I used to be the U 2 one coach and I did have a lot of you to want players I unfortunately had to get rid of some of them to make more space on starting league 10 my biggest player was are you 21 former you to one player Chris still and he was really good and I'm now I'm just trying to build up my players and I have a trainee in progress right now he's 18 parental All Star point guard now I'm trying to get him to be alright

Sounds good, good luck with your training and I look forward to playing you again after the inter-conference games.

Week 3 (11/18 & 11/21)
Bull Knights vs IXLOS Sabers

The Bull Knights are off to a great start to the season, going 6-0 with a winning margin of 33 points per game, all while remaining in the hunt for the Cup. But they will face off with the IXLOS Sabers this saturday, with the winner taking the front seat in the Great 8. IXL seemed to be taking it easy until they lost in the cup, and now they have been taking it out on Great 8 teams, winning by an average margin of 40.5 points since they were ousted from the tournament. However it seems that there is turmoil and turnover in the IXL team, with 2 of their players, one being MVP candidate Wilson To-ong, now on the trading block. With the early addition of Lelos Gourlidis, will a now complete Bull Knights team be able to go 7-0 for the first time since their creation? Or will the relegates from the D.III get in the front seat for a promotion back to D.III? Lets look at the KTV for each team and find out.
KTV for BUL: Keep it close and let the backups win this game. Both teams have a very good roster, with BUL having an average team rating of 9.4 this year, whiile IXL has a team rating of 9.2. But if we crunch some numbers, we will see that the rosters are not similiar at all. BUL's highest rated player is Stefan Antonsson with a rating of 12.3, but the standard deviation of the ratings is 1.97085, meaning that most all of the players are within about 2 points of the average 9.4. Meanwhile IXL highest rated player is Wilson To-ong with a 13.3, but the STDEV for them is 2.74071. All of this goes to show that the IXL possibly have a better starting five, but the BUL's bench is much more capable, and this is where BUL needs to have success if they want to win.
KTV for IXL: Run an explosive offense. IXL have the advantage inside with To-ong and outside with Wu Shuoxiang and Rustam Rendakov. If they can put up points quickly, then they might be able to run away with this one. Foul trouble could spell disaster for this team if one of their 3 top players goes out though, and BUL's opponents are committing on average about 20 fouls a game, so look for this to be a deciding factor. If IXL can survive the 10 minutes or so that the starters are taking a breather, then they have a real chance to win this game.

Final Score: BUL- 87, IXL- 84
BUL has backups that could start on 3/4 of the teams in this league, and I think that they will be the difference in this match-up.

Since we are about to enter inter-conference play, I thought I would do a updated power ranking. It is quite difficult to rank the top 5 teams so far, since there is no clear cut favorite, but here is my best shot.

Power Ranking #2 (Preseason ranking)

#1 Georgia PowerRiders (1)
Surprisingly GEO has been leading the way with defense this season, allowing the 2nd fewest points in the entire league. Donát Gubán as been leading the way as expected, scoring 37.6 points a game and shooting 47.5% from the field. Their only loss came at the hands of Big Big Gulps and fellow scoring phenom Vsevolod Averchenkov. But if GEO's key players can get their game shape up, expect this hiccup to be the only one this season.

#2 IXLOS Sabers (2)
IXL has been a dominating defensive force all season, only allowing 72.9 points a game, and only 63.7 points a game since they were ousted from the national tourney. However, last week IXL sold their leading rebounder and they have their leading scorer on the transfer list now, so it seems that either IXL is about to blow up in preparation for the future, or they are trying to bring in more talent, which would be scary. Their roster isn't as formidable now as it was at the beginning of the season, but they are still #2 in this power ranking.

#3 Bull Knights (4)
BUL is ranked #1 in point differential, #3 in scoring, #3 in points allowed, and tied with the above two teams for average player rating at 9.4. However with a poor showing against IXLOS Sabers last week, where they shot 33.8% from the field and lost by 20 points, along with a key injury to Cieszymir Klimczak, this team is entering inter-conference play with a crippled confidence. But as long as BUL has Mustapha Hajri, who has the highest shooting percentage of the top ten scorers with 51.6% from the field, this team is not going to be easy to beat.

#4 Big Big Gulps (6)
This team is really quite odd. They beat my #1 ranked team one week but then lose to a 2-6 team the week before. It seems that BIG's training regiment is costing them games, as their two losses came when they dressed less than five players. But when all the chips are on the table, this team has the talent to beat anyone in the league. Led by Vsevolod Averchenkov, look for this team to barley squeak into the playoffs and then pull off some major upsets.

#5 B.I.G Ballers (5)
This team has the most prolific offense in the league, scoring 109.6 points a game and winning by an average of 25.2 points. BIG has an outstanding starting five; they can pound it inside with Urmas Nael and Temel Öndüç, who are shooting a combined 60.3% from the field, and they have the perfect floor general in Marek Łętowski to dish it inside to them, who is leading the league in assists with 8.9 a game. Their weakness seems to be in their outside defense, where they have given up a combined 350 points to the PG and SG positions, which is 52% of their total points allowed. Plus I cannot rank them higher until they beat quality opponents.

#6 Darlington Falcons (10)
#7 The Blood Suckers (3)
#8 Sheboygan Red Skins (8)
#9 Arkansas Kings (not ranked)
#10 Ten Jaguars (11)
#11 DreamTeam3 (12)
#12 Texas Demon Slayers (13)
#13 Rat Brigade (14)
#14 Giant Hobo (not ranked)
#15 Phi Slamma Boicey (15) [ how the **** is this team still in the cup?!?!?!?]
#16 Saint Paul Murderers (16)

Projected MVP ranking:
1. Donát Gubán
2. Wu Shuoxiang
3. Vsevolod Averchenkov
4. Rastislav Budzinák
5. Mustapha Hajri
6. Görkem Ferzan
7. Zhao Xiuguang
8. Stefan Antonsson
9. Miguel José Cordero