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does having more trainers, or trainers with better attributes help with the amount of injuries your team sustains?

Simple answer--yes

Besides a high level of working with youngsters, what do you look for in staff? How good are these staff members compared to your NHL staff?


Mod note: I am going to go ahead and make this the official TBL STAFFING thread. Any questions about staff: coaches, agms,managers, trainers, anything goes in here from now on.

Pretty much the same as what I look for in my NHL coaches, just scaled back a little. If I look for 17's on my NHL coaches, I might try for 14 or 15 with my AHL coaches. Basically, I start out with looking for the same kind of coach as I would for the NHL, and I keep adjusting my filters until I've got a handful of guys to offer contracts to. Then it's just a matter of waiting to for their answer.

Like bruins72 said, and I always try to find coach for farm team with high Working with Youngers skill, since I tender to make junior club out of my AHL farm.

I have recently been experimenting with minor league coaches who are really good with working with youngsters (obviously) as well as trying to get a really good tactics coach and a goalie coach. The rest I can live with stats around 14.

I figure that naturally players will get the stats they should be. However, I really want to bump up stats that are harder to raise over a career. Not sure how it is working yet because I am only a few seasons in, but I want to play around with it. Also, I keep the PP/PK at 15-20 each, and the rest in general. Normally I try and boost them to NHL levels and try and get my AHL and ECHL teams to win. But this time I am focusing on development first, with winning coming secondary.

Has anyone else experimented with stuff like this?

I try to focus on development first and winning second with my farm team. I usually only put 10-15% each into PP and PK training. I want them to focus on everything else. I don't have any hard numbers to back this up result-wise but I try to make sure I've got a couple good conditioning coaches to build up the physical attributes. I think that's really important at this stage. Then I go for the best I can get when it comes to technical coaches. Coaches with a good Tactics attribute are nice if you can find them but not really that important if you're focusing on development. I would also assume (yeah, I know all about what happens when you assume) that coaches with a good Discipline and Motivating attribute would help at this level as well.

The reason for the good tactics coach is so that I can lower the percentage in the special teams and hopefully still do well. But then again, getting a good PP/PK in the AHL isn't that hard.

I definitely like motivation as well. Discipline to my knowledge only really helps with penalties, which may help staying off the PK, but isn't that big of a deal to me in the minors.


Batdad, thanks for combining!

When signing staff, do you guys consider their reputation? Will a better rep make a better staff or is it only the attributes/abilities?

I don't even look at it.

I think the rep has more to do with the AI in regards to hiring. Other teams might overlook someone with a low rep. Also, lower rep usually means less money it will cost you to hire them. I always look for the best staff available, period.

All I've found when hiring staff is: The higher the rep, the higher the salary demands. I've hired plenty of quality staff members with low rep, and kept in line with my budget in the process.

Anyone know what the hidden stat "free roles" does?

Bringing up a old thread for a question on the topic of staff.

What stats should I be looking for in a trainer in the NHL to help reduce injuries? I normally pick a Physical Therapy of 20 and then a high level of determination. Is there anything else I should be looking for?

I'm using the default 3.0.4 database and last season had Raycroft injured for 3 months so I picked up Sean Burke off waivers to help out for the year, then he gets injured for a month; Sundin was also out for a month that year.

This season I pick up Fedetenko to pick up some points on the right side of the first line and in the first week he goes down for 3 months. Right now I have 5 players out for a week or more with various bumps, bruises and contusions.

Is there anything I can do or do I just have a team full of clumsy oafs?

The Physical Therapy attribute of 20 is really the important one for trainers. You could also look for a high discipline but I don't think that one makes too much of a difference. If you're running into lots of injury issues, you might want to look at your training regimens and your tactics.

Does not having a Head Coach change how your team plays?

right now i have myself as the HC/GM

deathknot wrote:Does not having a Head Coach change how your team plays?
right now i have myself as the HC/GM

I don't know yet about how much it makes a difference, except that you are limited to a certain number of assistant coaches and you as GM/Head Coach do not get to coach practice sessions. So having a head coach gives you an extra coach to use for practices. Same for any other function a coach can provide in the game (ie advice on draft picks, coach reports, etc). But I think the extra slot available for practices is the main benefit, near as I can tell so far.

well draft wise i'm not to worried about that as is have strong scouting department and my assistant coach are really good. i've fired to coaches for not making it past the first year of the playoff 3 years in arow with a rather impressive team.

sucrose wrote:Bringing up a old thread for a question on the topic of staff.

What stats should I be looking for in a trainer in the NHL to help reduce injuries? I normally pick a Physical Therapy of 20 and then a high level of determination. Is there anything else I should be looking for?

I'm using the default 3.0.4 database and last season had Raycroft injured for 3 months so I picked up Sean Burke off waivers to help out for the year, then he gets injured for a month; Sundin was also out for a month that year.

This season I pick up Fedetenko to pick up some points on the right side of the first line and in the first week he goes down for 3 months. Right now I have 5 players out for a week or more with various bumps, bruises and contusions.

Is there anything I can do or do I just have a team full of clumsy oafs?

For trainers you want adaptability, discipline, working with youngsters and determination at least 10.