[Brian Swartz]

Sounds like you are doing very well!

As far as the trainer formula goes, on the 'Use Experience' screen, look at your skill, service, and doubles abilities. For example, for me Manohar currently has 108 skill, 77 service, 74 doubles.

The formula is 100% of skill, 75% of service, 33% of doubles, then divide that total by 2.3. So in this example:

** Skill: (108 x 1.00) = 108
** Service: (77 x .75) = 57.75
** Doubles: (74 x .33) = 24.42
** Total: (190.17 / 2.3) = 82.683 ...

That's the 'raw' total, to convert it to 'tennis balls', i.e. the 5-point scale, divide by 20. That gives 4.134, so I'd expect him to be a 4.1 if I converted to him to a trainer without any more work.

Hope that helps, but otherwhise glad you found the game enjoyable in any event.

Edit: I should add though that a 4.7 is pretty darn good, and should let you come quite close to maxing out your players. The difference is not likely to be all that important between 4.7 and 5.0.