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#17330	04/09/2015 7:03:00 am
Razzle Joined: 03/21/2015 Posts: 130 Inactive	I remember reading something about promoting players from minors to majors and I want to say that if they were promoted right before the update that they would lose their training gains for the week. Is this correct and how does the timing effect them going up to majors?

#17337	04/09/2015 1:17:13 pm
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5201 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	Training is assigned at the weekly update (early Friday morning). A player will receive the maximum amount of training if placed at his recommended level (on the roster page). For training, it doesn't matter where you spent your week - just where you are when the update occurs. Experience is accrued by playing at the major league level. ABs for position players, IP for pitchers. Some XP for entering the game. There is a finite amount of experience a player can receive before they are ... errr ... experienced. After that it gets fuzzy. It is generally assumed that the player needs to be placed at the major league level to receive experience. It doesn't actually say this in the rules. There may have been an official quote somewhere along the way that said this. Either way, I think the majority of us believe the only way to receive experience at the update is to be at the major league level. Some of us think that if a player acquires experience and is not at the major league level for the update, a small amount of a player's finite experience is lost. Others believe by sending a player down before the update, the experience gaining events of that week are ignored, no experience is lost but is rather postponed. (I'm not in this camp, and consider this a dangerous practice). TL:DR - if your player spent the week in the minors there is absolutely no reason to bring him up to the majors for the update. - if your player played in the majors that week, the safer bet is to leave in in the majors for the update. Even if the experience isn't lost, there are relatively few cases where it is a benefit to take training over experience. The relevant part of the manual: Training: is primarily gained in the minor leagues and is especially effective for younger players. Even in the majors, the some training is gained. Players will get training in all categories, but a team can select a primary and second training focus for its players. These categories will receive additional training during the training cycle. Note: training occurs weekly on Friday morning (Pacific Time). Experience: is gained while playing in the majors and to a limited extent in the minor leagues (ie. Playing in spring training games). There are several ways in which experience is gained: with each at bat for hitters, with each batter faced for pitchers and with each inning played in the field for positional defense purposes.

#17338	04/09/2015 1:33:35 pm
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5201 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	Should add that the best time to bring a player up from the minors to the majors is after a weekly update so that they get a good number of experience gaining events in during the week.