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I'm not sure if you understood me. The question was: why hire new coach on a Saturday, if he gets his salary on Monday, but only coaches on Friday. It seems that Tuesday-Thursday is the time to hire one, no?

(But whether I should fire all my staff on Sunday if I know I'm replacing them next week is another good question.)

You are correct.

When you are ready to switch trainer, fire after Friday training update, before Monday econ update.
Then buy new one after Monday econ update and before Friday training update.

Thanks! I'll fire all three staff members after today's game, and sign better ones after Monday evening :)

dont fire them all. lvl 1 staff is fine at the beginning (except trainer) you dont need high lvl pr managers and doctors at the start.

Got some pretty exciting news, we're 12 again!

The first signing was one of those unfortunate "what does this button do" experiments. While I quickly understood bidding the whooping $1k on Señor César Téllez (31756596) wasn't the smartest thing to do, he's 18, comes from my favourite country on the planet, becomes our tertiary trainee, and we're very thin at the wing anyway.

The second one I'm really thrilled about! My compatriot Daniel Furman (30278650) is exactly the big young man we were looking for! While I realize I must have overpaid if I overbid the rest of the internets on day 3 in the job (feel free to point out why), but people seem to be demanding similar value for any 18yo with over 60 skill points, and then brag about how their trainees popped 13-14 times a year, so I'll just take a 19yo with 82 beautifully distributed skill points and see if I can make him grow with the club, all the way to the top :)

25) is very important, and easier to ask with a picture:
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Thanks, didn't notice the injury!

Btw, here are my trainees:
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Furman has 82 skill points in total, Edu - 62, and Antuma - 48.

I figured that if I religiously alternate them between IS and ID, both guys I have just bought could become good forwards, ironically the shorter one playing much closer to the basket, and the Pole as my mini-LeBron SF.

However, there has been a lot of excitement about Antuma around here, and honestly I don't see why. For me, he'll always remain an undersized, one-dimentional, and expensive player. Can you explain me why I'm wrong? Thus:

26) how would you rank the future of those three?

And a bonus:

27) If I decide to sell one, what's the season with highest prices for youngsters? Before playoffs? Before the regular season? After the draft?

We've been talking up Antuma because he's 18, has Superstar potential and not often you see a newly created team get given a good trainee like that. None of us knew at the time that he had atrocious JS and JR, but if you're worried about that you can always train Jump Shot for SF/PF at some point. 6'9" isn't that undersized really, especially since height doesn't actually mean anything in the game engine itself.

Height instead affects training... a shorter player is going to be able to train outside skills quicker, whilst a taller player will train inside skills quicker. It could just be me, but I haven't seen a great deal of 7+ footers in BB, at least compared to players in the high 6 foot range. 6'9" is an acceptable height for a big-man player training wise; not ideal, but you'll get solid training nonetheless.

26: Out of the three you've posted though, the best one in my opinion right now is Daniel Furman, even taking into account him being a year older. Gotta love those SF's and players who have great secondary skills (inside skills for guards, outside skills for bigs). P-Allstar potential is also nice. Antuma is, as stated before, a good trainee in his own right... but the Brazilian is likely to become a third wheel training wise, since he lacks potential and his IS is poor right now.

27: My estimate, when it comes to a young players resale value, is just after the draft each season. Managers will be looking for youngsters to compliment their new draftees in their training plans and as such, a good prospect can fetch great money in a bidding war. That's the key to getting lot's of money from the transfer market; starting a bidding war.

Well for one, when we talk about total skill points we don't count Stamine and Free throws, so Antuma only has 39. Also, when viewing your roster other managers can't see the skills of your players, only now you've linked them we can see. His salary, age and potential is what we base our guess of his value on, and those looked good (18yo, superstar with 3k+ salary). However, now that we've seen his skills we see that his secondaries are bad, and now that we know the skillpoint total you've talked about includes Stamina and Free throws, thus making the total skill points we talk about 9 points lower, we can agree it's not an exciting prospect. Still, you got him for free on your first team and he's a lot better than what most people end up with with their initial roster.

Also, height doesn't have any impact on player performance, it doesn't matter if you have a 5'11" guy playing center, as long as his skills are proper for the position he'll play like any taller player. Height only affects how fast or slow certain skills train (Rebounding trains faster on tall players for example).

26) I'd rank your guys Antuma, Furman, Leal; they all got pretty mediocre stats so a ranking by potential seems in order. I'd train them on IS and ID and when Furman and Leal are starting to look good, add 1v1 forwards and some passing and OD to your training for Antuma.

27) I usually sell youngsters that are still trainable a few weeks into the season, by that time most players have sold their draftees so supply is low, and there's always some people that are looking for trainees.