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The skill level of your trainer will also affect the speed of training. You can view your trainers skill on the staff page (Your team page -> Staff). If your coach is below "competent" they will not have a great effect on improving your players. As a new starter I would advise replacing your old trainer with a new one with "competent skill" on around $10,000-$12,000 per week. These should cost you around $1,000 to purchase and on that salary you'd be able to support them on your starting income. Please be advised not to go for a better trainer to begin with, as they can be too expensive early on.

As mentioned earlier, the age of the players trained also effects their speed of training. As a player gets older they train slower. 18 year olds train the quickest, 19 year olds slightly slower, 20 even slower and so on. Players will still benefit from training until they are about 27, when the effects of training are almost none. But I would largely, especially as a new user, advise you not to train a player if they are older than 24.

Most training schemes have a choice with what positions they train. For example, inside defense has the choice of just training centers alone, just power forwards and centers or small forwards, power forwards and centers together. The smaller the number of positions trained the faster the training will happen. More on this later!

The height of players also effects training, but not by much at all. However, I would advise against training players under 6'5 in roles that are designed for power fowards and centers, and players over 6'5 in positions that are designed for guards.

Last edited by Soel at 04/13/2010 05:16:38

Frequently asked questions

"What kind of player should I buy" is often a question I get asked. Again, I don't want to get bogged down in the specifics, but I wouldn't advise spending much on your first batch. I would advise buying 18 year olds as they train the fastest and I would advise buying players in the starter-allstar potential region. I would also look for players with balanced statistics - a center who can hit a 3 is very valuable, for example! It's hard to train certain positions certain statistics, as you'll find out as you move along. A good price tag for your first round of trainees would be between $20,000-50,000. If trained correctly I would expect these players to be worth around $200,000 each in a season's time - quite a profit, you'd agree!

"How many trainees should I have?" You can single position train or multi-position, as explained earlier. Single position training is for experienced users, as it demands very specific control and it can lead to high salaries very quickly. I would advice multi-position training, so if you are training inside defense for example, I would advise training PF/C. This technically allows you to train 6 players (3 games a week, 2 positions), but I would advise training 5, or even 4 to start with, as it allows you a bit more flexibility with fouls and game shape. I've been playing for 7 seasons now and I still train 5 players.

"Should i train guards or bigs?" Both have advantages and disadvantages, and there's no clear answer, and no real monitary advantages to training either. What I'd do is look at your roster - if you have more trainable players at guard, train guards. Sell your guards that are too old to train and buy young guards and older bigs.

"What about small forwards" Small forwards are tough to train. Real tough - I wouldn't attempt this being 7 seasons in, haha. Leave it to the pro's while you learn the game!

"If I have an 18 year old with good skills and high potential, should I train him or sell him?" My advise would be to ask one of the older players if you're not sure. A good, young, high potential player sells for a lot of money and the early injection of cash can be great, but it's also an advantage to get one of these players for free (via the draft or your initial, starting, roster). So it all depends!

"How often should I train stamina and free throws?" Any week where you do not play 3 games (All star week, playoff weeks when you're not involved in playoff games) is a great time to train free throws and stamina, as your trainees will not be able to get the minutes for effective training anyway, and as explained earlier stam and free throw do no require minutes to train. In these weeks look at your sqaud - if they are generally low (below medocre) train stamina, if they're ok, train free throws.

"How about game shape?" Never train game shape! Game shape should be managed by controlling your player's minutes (see my other guide!)

Here's another good guide from Juicepats from the Help forum - (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

Hey Soel,

the links aren't good. might need to check them again.

the one in your second post send you to your team overview, and this one sends you to the forum, but doesn't show the thread.

also, just to let you know, i was asked by Mister Q ( England U2 coach) to write some guides up (which i am currently doing) though they are most probably more than the basic guides. if all goes well, they'll be up by the end of the week.

Mod-Revo

Thanks for letting me know, the links are fixed now, I think!

Good luck with your guides, no reason we can't have more than one. I think the more new players read, the better.

ii'll try and include a beginners guide aswell.. but my first priority is to get the guides of for training specific players.

once all is up, we might wanna make a sticky, referring to all the threads. that way, they can easely be found.

Rev

Soel, care providing your link to your GS manual you wrote?

can't find it anymore, and i'd like to include it in the manual i am writting.

Rev

Surely sure - (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

training guide has been completely finished.

i am going to read 2 more traiing guides, see if i missed anything, and then i'll be posting it on the forums.

are their any volunteers to read it through (some experienced in BB is required, since it will be a test to see if the guide is clear enough in your oppinion.)

note that it is a 19 page long PDF file ( tho some pages only have 3 lines or so) and it mentiones everything that has to do with training, from scratch to training a player for U21/NT.

any volunteers, please mail an e-mail adres to me by PM, and i'll send it to you so that you can read it up and give me a feed back on it.

Rev

Can't you just stick up a link?

it will be posted on the fora shortly. be patient.

currently, 3 people are reading it through for me, to give their oppinions on it. once i got their feedback, it will be posted.

their was a minor problem in the link that i had made (on rapidshare) so the manual PDF was sent by mail today. give them 2 day's to answer and read it through (it's a detailed manual, and has 10+ pages of text in the PDf file). then give me 2 to 3 day's to rewrite the parts that wouldn't be clear, or things that i left out, and then it will be up.

so please be patient for a little longer.

Mod-Revo