Yes and also mate you have to be willing to spend on some good players. I'm not saying buy a squad with players 10K each but get a bit of both. How i generally do it is that i would get ordinary players in the market but at young age and I tend to get older players with better stats. This way with the young players you can train them up and after lets say 5 seasons they will be full in mostly all stats and than you still have another 5 seasons with them. With the older players they will decline in less seasons but after a season or 2, they will have full stats and so on if you get my drift.
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Interesting points from The Captain and Deca. Personally I never spend more than 1500Cr a man and have a total team budget of 15,900Cr at the moment. There are some tactics that seem to make a difference. Fridays and Saturdays seem to be better for buying, I guess everyone is out getting hammered! Also the nearer to the end of the season, with the week between end and playoffs being a time for some easier pickings, I guess more poeple don't come on every day then?
You also have to have different criteria for the player types:
Goalies - try to buy those with the most stamina above 60. The ones above 70 tend to be more expensive and those that are under 20yrs old even more so. I have found you can get goalies between 20-30 with 60+ stamina sometimes for 500Cr. Also look at the passing stat they vary by as much as 5 points which is a seasons training!
Defenders - Go for Pace 68+ and as much stamina as possible for the budget you set, this normally means they have tackling and heading stats of 95. I tend to end up with older players (30+), so I limit to 900Cr, but I will go to 1500Cr if they are younger. I picked up a fairly decent anysided D for 900Cr yesterday he is in my squad (Rich Farquar) if you want to take a look.
Midfielders - I go the way Deca says, buy young and train them up, with a few older with better stats. Stamina and pace being the main attributes I look for.
Strikers - Pace being the main criteria always go for 68+. There does not seem to be the pressure to get these than the other type of players. You can normally get ones between 20-30yrs with no problem. The ones under 20 will always be expensive. I also try to keep a mix with 2 with high pace of 88+, but some lower stats in other areas and 2 with lower pace 68 - 74 but higher stats of 95 in most other areas.
I might not win many leagues but I get a lot of fun mucking up the big boys (sometimes) and when the cycle of players is right you just never know.
Well thats my two penneth, anyone else got any tip?
Martin.
