How good is your reserve keeper?

[Icy]

I have three keepers by now, all them 19 years old but i don't train keepers so i'm going to sell one.
My 1st team keeper is a solid one, i won't sell this one of course.

The other two keepers are one passable and the other inadecuate. I would get more money from the passable one so i'm thinking on selling him and keep the inadecuate as backup. Is this a good idea? i haven't ever seen a keeper missing a match so i don't think that i will use my backup a lot, but what do you think?

[Vikas]

My first goalie is an excellent, and my back-up one is a weak lol :)
So i'm happy to say that i've never been forced to play him in real matches yet.

I guess an inad would be sufficient for immediate substitution, for longer injuries on your first guy you're probably gonna need a better one though, but you can always buy a temp backup then or something. That's what i would do.

[Jets80]

My back up keeper is the youth pull from saturday night. In friendly play my coach playes back up.

[Raven Hawk]

It is possible to have a keeper injured. I have seen it happen a couple of times. It does seem like it happens less than it does to other players however. I currently employ a solid keeper with a passable keeper backup. This is one of the weaker positions on my team, even though my solid keeper has high xp and can put up 3-4 stars depending on form.

I plan on picking up a Brilliant or Magnificent keeper near the end of the season this year depending on how sales go on one of my trainees. When I do this, I will sell the passable keeper, and keep my experienced veteran solid keeper as my backup. This should solidify my keeper position for 4-6 seasons depending on how well my team progresses.

My rule of thumb is that when playing a backup, I shouldn't lose more than 1/4 of the stars that I would get when I play a starter. Therefore if my keeper is 4 stars, my backup should be able to put up 3 stars. If my keeper puts up 8 stars, the backup should put up 6 stars. However, if I ever get a keeper that puts up 8 stars, I might reconsider paying a backup 6 star money . . .

[saintjo]

i have had my keeper get injuried for 5 weeks before.

my back up is weak right now.

[Vince]

My backup is a high Passable (~2 weeks from Solid), and my starter is mid-to-high Solid. Like Raven Hawk, I'm probably going to upgrade there next, and I'll keep the starter as my backup, and the backup will be sold.

[RPI-Fan]

I'd sell the Inad, Icy. It might seem bad now to not get the extra $30-50k, or however much it'd be, but later on that much money will just be pennies.

[damnMikeBrown]

My backup is brilliant.

"You mean you put a backup in that's brilliant? Brilliant!"

[Mr. Wednesday]

My primary is formidable and my secondary is excellent (and good enough that he starts if his form is good enough).

Mind you, I'm a keeper trainer, so it probably doesn't have much relevance to you.

[gobig6]

I have a solid as my starter and a passable as my backup. I've only had my team for a little over one and a half seasons, and have had 3 keepers injured in that time. Two of them for 3 weeks and one for 1 week. I got my passable keeper when my solid went down this season and only had an inadequate in poor form as my backup.

[Blade6119]

excellent back-up

[Hobbes-]

excellent starter.. weak backup :)

[Matt2You]

Sell the passable. Because man, you have a 19 year old for the starting keeper position. If he gets injured hire 10 docs and get him back in before the next game... simple.