Asunto: Youth Pull

I finally pulled a good player imgur.com/YZHGv .

2 Questions:

1. Am I safe to assume his shooting is too low to make him a good winger and he'd be better off as a center?

2. Is my training facility (10 building 11) adequate to develop this player to his potential? Or would he be better off sent to the market?

His shooting is not too low that it cannot be trained to some small extent, especially on a team with very good facilities. He'd probably do better as a center, though I'm not personally convinced that there is no place for playmaking wingers in this game. Even so, his OR is fairly low. You could probably train him to be a respectable player to someday take over as center on your second or third line.

However, he could be a signficantly better player on another team with better facilities. With those qualities, someone would probably overpay for him. I would suggest using the market scout if you haven't used it yet this season (with broad enough parameters to get a result). You could also just offer the player for sale at the lowest price you would accept (though this might discrouage bidding and lead to a lower overall result since potential bidders that would have bid cheaply to have the player under their sales and transfers to bid on later might forget about him). Training the player more might get you more money, however, the use of lesser facilities to train him at this point would also decrease his potential value, but not by much, since you might get more money for a 300 OR 15 year old than a 300 OR 16 year old anyway.

However, it really depends on what your team needs and what you want to do, since the player could definitely become an asset in the hockey rink.

It would just take him a little longer to train his shooting. For simplicity of example, let's say that he can train O,P,T, and A at 1.00 per day, and S at 0.67 per day. If you were to train 20 days at O,P,T,and A, and 32 days at S over a season he would increase OR by 20 in each skill (total 100). If you totally neglected his shooting you could train him 28 in each of the 4 skills, for a total of 112. Since his other skills or so high, you can devote more practice sessions to his shooting.

And even as a center, you don't want to neglect his shooting. So for forwards, I tend to evaluate more based on passing v aggression. And in his case there is little to choose. If he weren't such a super prospect, I would train a player like him based on the need of by team (my better younger players right now are centers, so he would be trained as a wing).

Thanks guys. I'm a bit heavy on centers right now so its good to hear the shooting won't hurt too bad.

Should I wait to do a youth pull until the new season starts to prevent aging, or is the game smart enough that it'll age the players anyway?

Haha tried this a couple years ago. Unfortunately they age anyways.

that worked in seasons 1-3 and then they changed it.

almost pulled a beast too bad i can only pull 5/6's looks like a goalie unscouted goal 76 pass 99 tech 99

all 1 and 2* under 200.

I had the same thing...guy was a five star winger, but OR216 and just 5/6...pretty much guys that start below OR 250 hardly have a chance, much less if they're 5/6. I don't even bother pulling 5/6 anymore.

I haven't pulled a player over 3 stars in several months.

most important pull of the year. 6 guys ranging from 1 to 3 stars...pulled the 3 star because I'm a masochist and he turns out to have 50% aq

Clayton Leppek
Pulled a decent player i think. Not sure about his AQ, since my scouts are not accurate.

I got a decent pull, High D/O/P/A skills, he has some training in O already, but i think he'd make a better D... but he's 5/6. Oh well!

I think I pulled his twin: goalie unscouted, Goal 88, Pass 99, Tech 94. But CL 5/6 and OR 220 and he thinks he's a defenseman as well. Anyone have an idea how much I could get for him?