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Hey Yohnst...how do you train young players and still stay in leagues III, II and NBBA? Help a brother out! I struggle to stay out of IV...

This is a loaded question.

Despite what anyone might tell you this is a money game. So I've had two objectives every season... either promote or demote (staying in the middle is the worst spot to be) and be training one or more players to sell for a large profit after I move up the ladder with them.

The demotion cycle is to scout and draft a trainee or draft someone to sell if they no longer fit my training program and obviously promotion gets you a nice bonus as you move up. When I'm moving up I typically surround my trainees/core guys with 32-year-old players I find for cheap and can move off of for a small loss in a season or two.

The core of all that money is your arena and I see you're building that up.

The reality is if you want to compete for an NBBA title with these guys that have been playing for all these seasons you'll need $10MM to have a shot at winning and that takes some time to get to. I'm currently sitting at $8.2MM and with how much I make a week my 3rd run at the top MIGHT get started with $10MM after I get to Div IV next season and my trainees can start helping me win and advance.

This is a super high-level musing if you have any more specific strategic questions we can keep this thread rolling or shoot me a BB-Mail.

Does this mean I can “take it easy” when my team plays yours?! Ha-ha! Thanks for being so candid! Great advice and hopefully one of these days we’ll play against each other in NBBA…!

Thanks for the insights!
I have this weakness of wanting to be competitive every season. Then I end up hanging onto some of the young guys I build up and having those huges salaries to deal with when I'm not in a position to promote. Virgil Harley is my current example. So, a mental block I have to get over.
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Oh, and one question. When training pg, which skill do you start with?
Thanks.
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That's basically the hole people find themselves in where they keep ending up dropping back down every time they do promote and can never keep advancing. I've done this myself where I would come up to III and spend a good 4 years floundering in the middle of the pack while not making any money and then when I inevitably can't stay up, I just have a team full of guys who are too old and guys who are scrubby backups.

My preference is to pump OD and PA early because those are the most valuable in both making them contributors if you want to win AND more valuable on the transfer market.

And yeah - I hear you guys on the wanting to be competitive, but one thing I've learned is nothing happens super quick in this game so I've learned to take my medicine on a rebuild if needed.

So where is your southpaw roster on the rebuild timeline? Are the players you have now in training? Will some stay on the team? Transferred after training? Or are they placeholders while you save money so you can eventually spend big building your next team?

Great question and TBD. I had thought of one more season after this one before moving up, but its real hard to NOT promote from Div IV.

Ive got two trainees im planning to take with me to the NBBA (Xavier and Owens).... But the timeline gets wonky with that lapse season.

Hoping to find a stud in this class I can sell and if I can get a real good prospect to sell maybe I start the push back up next season. If not I may dink around one more year before i start the climb back.

Thanks for sharing your process throughout the season.
Given me, and I'm sure others, food for thought.

As someone who has promoted twice from this level, only to be demoted a season later, I know staying the course isn't going to get me any different results.

Good luck next season, and maybe you'll pass through here again on on your way back up!

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