Early Season Purchasing Query??? [Archive] - Front Office Football Central

thealmighty

05-30-2005, 08:59 AM

While trying to replace the IM I just sold and looking at the costs involved in buying a high level player in the 1st week of the season, it occurred to me that I was wasting my time and resources.

It seems to me, with the prices you can get dropping constantly, that waiting a week or two or buying a passable instead of a solid will save close to $1 million (if you want good passing skill) now and cost you just a few weeks training.

So, is it just me or is there no reason for non-national player trainer wanna-be managers to shell out big bucks? Prices dropping mean lots of people do not train as high as before anyway, so what is a couple weeks being behind the top level trainee, anyway? Idiocy or sensible?

sterlingice

05-30-2005, 10:56 AM

In theory, it's because they train faster. If you think about it- someone you buy and train up in week 3 instead of week 7 is going to have 4 more weeks at age 17 speed so as they go along, they'll be further ahead of the learning curve their whole career and will have a higher peak.

Realistically, however, you'll sell him when he bumps so it's more a matter of do you want to train him from s26wk3 to s29wk3 or s26wk7 to s29wk8 (loses a little time across the entire training process, perhaps). And frankly, I choose the latter since it typically results in a significant initial cost savings.

That said, if you ended your training cycle in week 2 or 3, you have a decision to make since you're wasting valuable clock time. If you just let your guys sit for 4 weeks while you wait for prices to go down, then you lose cash in that you're not training anyone right now. That said, if you're looking right now, I'd recommend going for age 18 excellents. They're probably going to run you less than age 17 solids and they're already trained up a level- you just aren't paying that "stupid trainer" premium of early week solid trainees.

When I changed my training over last season, I started with 18yo excellent scorers with solid passing- they cost around $1M depending on their TSI, but what would a 17yo solid/solid have cost me? About the same, if not more, for someone who's not as skilled that I'd have to train up another 7 or 8 weeks in the end.

Back to the start, what you're talking about is what I call "bleeding edge" training- it's like the people who have to have the newest computer parts out there when they can get comprable performance for half the price. But it's stupid- it seems like wasted money for minimal performance upgrade. Essentially people think that by buying really early, they don't waste a minute of training time since they are getting them training as soon as possible for maximum training speed. However, they fail to take into account that they spent an assload of cash which takes a while to make for that premium.

SI