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[NAIWF]

I have to admit I'm a sucker for "Best Week Ever" on VH1, and the idea for this question came from a segment where they talk about whether someone basically had a good week or a bad one. Anyway, here's the point. . .

Well, I think I did pretty well here, but I'm curious what other people think so here it is. Essentially I sold off the first guy and lost a level of TS, and acquired the last two plus 570K with the proceeds. My question is, do you consider this to be a good move, or should I have kept Borgbrant until he popped one more time since I'm currently in 1st in my series and had the best midfield which was the main (only?) reason I am doing so well?
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Ulf Borgbrant
22 years, passable form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: Sverige
Total Skill Index (TSI): 23 790 (2 379 000 US$)
Wage: 13 631 US$/week including 20% Bonus

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: world class Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor

I sold him for $4.5 million, and pocketed $4,095,000, which I then turned over into these two players.

Karl Lindhult
20 years, solid form, healthy
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: Sverige
Total Skill Index (TSI): 11 140 (1 114 000 US$)
Wage: 5 581 US$/week including 20% Bonus

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

He'll be replacing a solid wing/solid passing or solid/passable guy until my oldest regular player Jamey Judd reaches solid experience. I'd sell him then, and put the #3 back into the starting lineup since I can't really justify having a 29 year old starting winger.

Juan Médici
19 years, passable form, healthy
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: Argentina
Total Skill Index (TSI): 3 530 (353 000 US$)
Wage: 1 413 US$/week including 20% Bonus

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: formidable Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

He's not a long term trainee, but good enough to get into the rotation and be sold in a couple of seasons at magnificent or world class. I think it's a bit too late in the season to get the major benefit from a 17/18 yo excellent with bad stamina, so I went with this guy.

Again, if some team had offered me a trade of those two plus 570K for Borgbrant, I'd have taken it without hesitation, but then again I have crappy wingers and needed a trainee, so I'm biased. What do you think?

[bronconick]

I'd say it depends on how *much* of a hit you take from losing Borgbrant in your midfield.

[Raven Hawk]

Downgrade.

I like the idea of what you were doing, but I disagree with the execution. I think selling the WC middy for 4.5 was a good idea, however, I don't think that you got the best things for your team in return.

If the formidable midfielder was bought to hedge your midfield loss, then it was a good idea (i.e. if he's a starter), however if you bought him as a reserve trainee, I think that you should have gone younger. Maybe an 18 y/o excellent. I know that he isn't going to be with your team for a long time, but I would have picked up a trainee that is.

I like the acquisition of a strong winger to your training program. However, I think that his PM skill is too low and he is too old for you to benefit from him. Here is the caveat to this statement. If you plan on holding onto him for 5-6 seasons, he's a decent buy. Any less and I don't agree with it. This guy has potential, but his poor PM will take a couple seasons to get to a respectable level if you are training him in the winger slot.

I would have liked to see you pick up the following:

18 y/o excellent PM/inadequate+ passing
and
19 y/o brilliant wing/inadequate+ PM

But then again, I'm a forward trainer, so take my advice for what it is worth. ;)

[McSweeny]

I'd say it depends on how *much* of a hit you take from losing Borgbrant in your midfield.

i'm hoping a really really big hit :)

[rickJ]

Agree with Raven, the new midfielder you bought won't make that great of profit at 19 and formid.

If that winger had better then weak PM I'd say he was a good buy, as it stands that extra money making slot will go unused.

[NAIWF]

Well the winger isn't going anywhere, as I don't think I'll ever need two better wingers before I inevitably have to quit HT due to time constraints.

The excellent stamina/formidable middie might be able to start some weeks depending on form, and even if he doesn't, he's likely to be the alloted back-up in case someone gets injured. I didn't want a guy who was a year younger but three levels lower in stamina since I've already trained stamina twice in the last few weeks and I can't take another form hit until the offseason.

I didn't think my team would win more than 5 games this year, and I was definitely not prepared to make a run at the series title anyway, so I'd rather retool now when it's all but assured I'm not going to autodemote, than wait until the offseason and have to sell a WC+7 or so middie and not make any extra money off of him, or worse yet keep him until midway through next season and have the same problem then.

Thanks for the feedback though :)

[BlueMage]

I like the sale, don't like the pickups.. uhh.. what raven said.