Tema: US Under 21 Team

place holder.

Since this is starting in a season start to post your players here that you want looked at. Remember your players need good AVQ and good OR

Vito Mccullough

Boyd Franz

John Raymond

Jon Hacker
Jamaal Rain
Ronnie Koenig

Their ratios are a little funky right now, but they'll be fixed soon enough.

Tahj Hatton

Hi all,
Greetings from Latvia
I Have one 20 years old USA player
Ken Avery
I hope he can help your NT!

Vecums 20
KI teicami (5/6)
Sas 74%
VP Labā
Pie 53
Ene 100/100

Vār 25 61
Ls 234 81
Met 150 79
Blk 140 78
Piesp 31 43
Teh 100 63
Ātr 33 59
Agr 144 83
KR 857 68%

Luther Brunson

John Raymond should be getting more PT over Ken Avery at OPV. Real talk.

He will be the starter next year but my main factor was experience considering your stats are relatively equal.

Also an update for everyone: The U21 team is significantly weaker than most U21 NT's out there because there are many staples for the Senior team that are 21 still so I had a smaller pool of quality 21 yo's to work with. On the flipside of that we should be in much better shape for next season due to lots of 20 yo's getting chemistry.

Ok. Even if they're equal right now (which I'm not sure they are), John Raymond will definitely play more in the national teams than Ken Avery going forward, so any chemistry and experience given to a lower quality player especially during a year when the U21 team is not competitive seems wasteful. You're the manager though, so I'm fine with whatever.

At the start of this season I wasn't sure how strong we really were with the 21 yo's on the senior team; so I decided that I'd give it my best shot with the strongest lineup I had. It was a close decision but I decided the 30 exp was more beneficial than the 30 or so OR difference.

Although within a game or two it should be pretty clear if we have 0 chance of making it past qualifiers. As soon as it is I'll be putting the line up to almost strictly 20 yo's.

I've been scouting all of the national team players. I just have a few U19 players left to scout.

They're similar, but Avery has much better shooting, if possibly a little too much. He also has a lot of blocking - not enough to play defense unless there's an injury. That may be a bonus or waste of OR depending on your view about how to train handball players. Since specialists are popular, probably more of a 100 OR waste of OR. Raymond has more FiP. Raymond also trains low influence attributes much more than Avery.

My current estimate is that 100 OR=10% bonus, so the extra experience amounts to about 33 more OR, distributed among attributes. This basically negates Raymond's advantage in FiP/technique.

Raymond has slightly better qualities.

Overall, Avery is arguably better offensively. Raymond is more arguably balanced and will be the better player in the long run, assuming that his CL does not fall sooner than Avery's CL. I'd go with Avery to win now, unless you really don't like his passing and speed. I'd ultimately go with Avery to build chemistry for next season if the United States doesn't have a chance to compete this season. By giving chemistry to 20 year olds the team will be stronger next season (though this strategy depends on the availability of quality 20 year olds). In addition, you might be able to give chemistry to players that will be 20 next season (I don't know if players take a chemistry hit every season for the handball youth teams that would negate this).

Only a fraction of U21 chemistry should carry over to the senior team. This chemistry will be lost if Raymond doesn't make the team immediately (the senior team in hockey almost never adds players under 24 or so (when they start to get close to being viable starters) from the U20 team. Avery would get at most 10 extra experience.