What Should I Train? (Newbie Help)

[Neuqua]

I basically only really started playing with my team over the weekend and while I'm starting to understand what the heck I'm supposed to do, I think I should atleast ask you guys what direction you guys think I should go with my team.

What should I train this week? Any players standout to you guys? Any players I should just go ahead and fire?

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Guayasent Balodis Matesanz
51 000 US$, 22 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: wretched
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor


Enric Echague 1
49 000 US$, 28 years, passable form
Has weak experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: disastrous


Brock Paine
26 000 US$, 26 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous


Billy Clayton
75 000 US$, 23 years, weak form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate
Winger: inadequate Defending: disastrous
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: passable


Brad Gallagher
17 000 US$, 26 years, poor form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid


Long Overton
40 000 US$, 31 years, passable form
Has inadequate experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate
Winger: inadequate Defending: passable
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: disastrous


Will Cormier
78 000 US$, 22 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: solid Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor


Mikey Gaffney
1 000 US$, 29 years, poor form
Has weak experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Yang Yee-Jen
13 000 US$, 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: poor
Winger: passable Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Stewart Cotton
21 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched


Carl Triplett
57 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: weak
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous


Alva Shearer
54 000 US$, 25 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: solid
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: disastrous


Herb Bueno
11 000 US$, 27 years, wretched form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: disastrous


Christopher Libby
99 000 US$, 25 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: solid
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: passable


Giampaolo Luciani
4 000 US$, 23 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched


Joseph Morey 1
20 000 US$, 29 years, inadequate form
Has weak experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: passable


Lamar Durant
95 000 US$, 23 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: inadequate
Playmaking: wretched Passing: wretched
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak


Rubén Quintana
10 000 US$, 21 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: inadequate
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: solid


Emmett Peoples
87 000 US$, 21 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: passable Passing: inadequate
Winger: passable Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Toby Gee
0 US$, 18 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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


Blake Estrada
46 000 US$, 25 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: passable
Winger: inadequate Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous


Louis Pritchard
15 000 US$, 24 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor


Coach Seth Workman
0 US$, 50 years, disastrous form
Has excellent experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: wretched Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous

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Any help would be appreciated.

Neuqua

[GoldenEagle]

What type of formation are you running? If your running a 3-5-2 you probably want to train playmaking. If your running a 4-5-1 you can either train defending or playmaking. I would look at the best young players you have (you dont have a young team unfortantely) and go from there.

[vex]

Fire:

Mikey Gaffney
Toby Gee
Giampaolo Luciani

There are about 3 others that should be fired probably, but those guys I mentioned are no-brainers.

Emmett Peoples is an all-around player. Whatever you decide to train, make sure he gets trained.

You only have one player under 21 worth keeping, so you'd be best off deciding on what YOU want to train, then go out and get some 17-18 yr old players that suit your training.

Be consistent in your training, try not to switch it every week like I did last season;)

After you have decided what to train, get rid of the 21-23 yr old players in other positions by selling them and getting 24-28 yr old players (or older) for cheap.

[GoldenEagle]

Originally posted by vexroid
Fire:

After you have decided what to train, get rid of the 21-23 yr old players in other positions by selling them and getting 24-28 yr old players (or older) for cheap.

Very interesting strategy, but I can agree with that.

[Neuqua]

I saw that most of my guys have low stamina and I know stamina is pretty important once you get into the second half. Should I go ahead and train for Stamina then or do you guys suggest skill training first?

[Neuqua]

Dola--

I'm still not sure which formation I want to mold my team into. I'm still in the learning process so I'm looking into the positives and negatives of them all

[vex]

Form training wouldn't hurt sometime either. When? That's someone else's question.

[Doug5984]

you should train stamina this week, it goes to everyone so it does not matter who plays, and it is also very important to the 2nd half of games. You have 2 very good forwards; Enric Echague & Billy Clayton- so it would probably be better to run a 3-5-2.

[daedalus]

I think the first thing you should decide is how you will be building your team.

If you read Ardent's dynasty, you'll see that he went the direction of offense. If you read DataKing's dynasty, you'll see that he went the direction of defense. Horned . . . well, he just went with a really muddy pond and some ugly socks. But that's another story.

Once you have decided upon the direction you want to go with, then it's time to analyze your team and see what you need to do. Do you have excess at any position that you can sell to give you additional "startup money" (besides the 300 000 you start out with and the 200 000 debt)? If so, consider selling them. Then assess what you have and what you need. One important thing to do is to remain competitive - to continue to build your supporter club - while building up a solid foundation.

To that end, inadequate and passable players should do just fine for you. As Vex said, 27-29 year old players will be cheaper to buy and will make good fill-in/placeholders for positions you are not training. The other task, of course, is finding trainees for the positions you are working on. The ones that turn out well will hopefully become a part of your starting foundation. The excess will be used to fund other things (other positions, stadium upgrades, booze).

As Doug5984 said, stamina is huge. It's one of the primary ratings for midfield and is very important for defense. You could do worse than to spend a fair chunk of time training stamina to start with. For one, it trains everyone regardless of whether or not they play. A nice thing while you scour the transfer wire for cheap trainees. The other thing is that it can steal some wins for you in late games.