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I think Mike and I want to see an end to the idea of needing to crosstrain. Pick a position, pick a skill, end of story.

Sort of right. Pick the player(s), pick the skill(s), and train. Height still matters, that is logical. Position doesn't (shouldn't) matter at all.

OK, that would be more logical, but the challenge ?

The challenge remains.
1. Your trainer can still only do so much.
2. Your players can only learn at a certain rate (currently verrry slow).
3. Taller players are handicapped at learning certain skills; shorter players are handicapped at learning other skills.
4. Players have invisible caps to their abilities.

The differences?
1. First and foremost, logic -- there is simply no need to retain the illogical aspects of training.
2. Simpler to understand, simpler to plan.
3. Newbies won't have to be rocket surgeons to understand it, thereby helping retention of new BB customers.

If we were to be realistic with training, only the top teams would be able to train the best players. Let's do that.

No, please quit just being argumentative and listen with an oipen mind, please. We're talking about the single worst area of BB, and it is entirely fixable. That is well worth open minded discussion, wouldn't you agree?

Logically, the best trainers would be best able to train the best players. Poorer trainers would do a poorer job, but would do something constructive. Meatheads wouldn't accomplish much at all.

Last edited by Mike Franks at 1/27/2015 10:40:49 AM

Another "challenge" would be that most of the times teams can really compete with a mix of their better players. That would reduce largely the games where one or both teams are giving up because they have to sacrifice for training reasons.