Youth Squad Investment

[JHandley]

I know it's always advised to spend the full $20k a week on your youth squad.However, I've gotten myself over the barrel on a couple of unwise moves. Also, I've purchased a couple of kids for cheap, about what it costs for a youth pull, that I can train to sell. I'm hoping to go that route to raise funds as well as decrease the amount I'm investing in my youth squad just until I can get myself straightened out.

I've built my youth squad to Inad, I'm wondering, if I lower my investment will it just progress very slowly, or will it start to deteriorate?

[astralhaze]

I imagine it would decrease very slowly, but to be honest that is just my best guess.

[vex]

Take the hit the $20,000 costs. It'll pay off eventually.

[JHandley]

Originally posted by vexroid
Take the hit the $20,000 costs. It'll pay off eventually.

I intend to build my youth squad again after I sort my finances out. However, shouldn't it be just as effective to buy 19 year olds for $3k that are weak playmakers, but solid passers, spend a season to train them up to passable or even solid playmakers and sell them off for $300+ ?

All the while, I save $15k a week for half a season while I right my ship?

Edit: Just to back this up, here's a guy and other than Playmaking and Passing, his other stas aren't that great. He's got a bid on him right now for $500k


Artur Slowakiewicz (5614570)
23 years, weak form, healthy

A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and honest.
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 201 000 US$
Wage: 2 280 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: The Lemon Squeezers
Warnings: 0


Stamina: solid Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: solid Passing: solid
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: disastrous

Career Goals: 1
Career Hattricks: 0
League goals this season: 0
Cup goals this season: 0

[daedalus]

Don't go down lower than 10 000. I was pretty broke so I went at 10 000 per weeks for up until passable with no problem. It's WAY slower but until you're in decent shape financially, it's a possibility. You should see decrease. I knew someone who dropped from 20 000 to 10 000 and saw his squad dropped from solid to passable but since you're still inadequate, you should be okay.

[daedalus]

Originally posted by JHandley
However, shouldn't it be just as effective to buy 19 year olds for $3k that are weak playmakers, but solid passers, spend a season to train them up to passable or even solid playmakers and sell them off for $300+ ?

Yes, that is an option. You might consider doing it ANYWAY, even with a full spending Youth Squad. On the other hand, without spending to build up a Youth Squad, you are lowering your chance of being able to pull a usable player. Or that one pull that might be able to take you out of debt.

[illinifan999]

I was deep in debt, (not like some of these guys, I was pusing -300k) but I kept with the max investment, and then came a miracle. Second week of solid youth squad I pull "Tom Sanders" who had solids in passing, and defending, and passable playmaking. He was 19, and went for $612,000. If he had been 17, probably over 1M, but that brought me out of debt, and gave me money to actually improve my squad.

[DataKing]

Has anyone been keeping track of how many times illinifan has mentioned Tom Sanders? I'm just wondering what the tally is at this point.

Just jokin' around, illini. ;)

[HornedFrog Purple]

I saw Tom Sanders on VH-1's "Where are they now?" :cool:

[Coffee Warlord]

I had mine at 10k for about 4 weeks when I was in nasty debt. My squad was at passable by then. Still got somewhat decent pulls, and after a couple sales of existing players, I bumped it back up.

10k is the lowest I'd tune it down to though, and the first thing you should do when you feel you've got your debt managed a bit more is bump it back up.

[illinifan999]

DK, I gotta be getting close to a 100. ;)