Thema: How often should I change training?

How often should I change training and what's the best options for everyone if it takes a long time?

Hi Dave, hope you've settled in to the game OK.

There is technically no downside to never changing your training, in terms of player boredom/effectiveness, but you would end up with a very lopsided team unless you sell them and replace!

A prime example of this and it working is training pace. Everyone who plays trains, but it is slower than all other training (except stamina). When your players can't handle any more pace, sell them for better more rounded players and repeat the process.

Personally, i train MID's or more specifically wingers (so pace, technique, passing and playmaker) and have done this unchanged in my 6 years.

Your plan is totally up to you, there is no right or wrong way, but each way can be made more efficient with a few tips.

Also, what coaches do you have currently?

I have just dropped down from the league above, so to try and keep the wages down I have sack most of my coaches. Just I have found that the stam will always go up but if you change it to some of the others then they don't really change. But this week with it set to stam and mid i got stam +7, Pace +1, Tech +1 and play +1. So i guess there is no rhyme or reason to it. Not that i'm moaning about the increases.

Forgot to reply here (hoped someone else would) but a couple of important things to note;

An ideal coach set-up for a team your age (15 months) would be a 2x/3x unearthly head coach, 3 very good/excellent assistants and a youth coach of some description.

If you feel you can't afford this, just lower your assistant coach levels, but you should definately have 1x head coach, 3x assistants and ideally 1x youth coach.

Training is nothing like you have suggested. Stamina trains faster than all other skills and will train players who don't play. Usually, stamina will go up 1 or 2 levels per week with an unearthly head coach. The slowest type of training is pace, which is approx 1/3rd slower than all other skills not mentioned, but everyone who plays gets pace training.

As for the pace/tech/pm pops you got when stamina training; these stem from "general training", which happens every week regardless of skill trained. It is approx 10% of one normal training session in a skill.

Just turns out a few players were close to pop in a skill the week you trained stamina, and the general training pushed them over the line.

You should only really look to train stamina at most once per season.

Agree with jimmy. If you are short on money simply get 3 assistants with lower wages. For £2k per week you should be able to get a "good" coach for the assistant role, 1k for adequate.

Assistants and youth coaches only need the coach skill - but as your main coach trains based on the skill at the thing you are training you might want to have the option of an assistant with magical or unearthly in a specific skill. Eg if you choose to train def then your head coach must have good rating at def. you could then either have the head coach, or another with decent skill in stamina for the offseason stamina training.

Hope that makes sense....

Stamina trains all players and is less age focused
Pace trains all players
All other skills only train a set of players - gk, mid, def or att. Rules explain more.
Must never play more than 1 gk, 5 def,mid or 3 ATt
And training is fastest for 16yo, doesn't train much at all aged more than 26.

Rules explains more