How to train well
Training is how players get better. Focus, intensity and variety decide how fast your squad grows. Here are all the rules with the real values.
Three tips
- 1Change the focus before the stimulus drops: days 1 and 2 full, day 3 85%, from day 4 70%.
- 2Young players far below their potential learn fastest. Give them minutes, that earns a bonus.
- 3Hard training brings more development but costs fitness. Before important matches, train normally.
Team plan
You pick a focus and an intensity. The focus spreads the training points:
| Focus | Effect |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Points by the skills of the position |
| Attack | more for finishing, technique, pace |
| Defence | more for defending and physique |
| Technique | more for technique and passing |
| Fitness | more for physique and pace |
| Youth | players up to 21 × 1.2, older ones × 0.9 |
| Recovery | +6 recovery per day, development × 0.8 |
Training stimulus
The same focus day after day wears off. How much a training day counts depends on how many days in a row the team focus has stayed the same:
| Day in a row | Stimulus |
|---|---|
| day 1 | 100% |
| day 2 | 100% |
| day 3 | 85% |
| day 4 and later | 70% |
Changing the focus resets the stimulus. The rule is the same for every manager, with or without Pro.
With Pro the assistant coach keeps the stimulus up automatically. By hand you get the same by changing the focus in time.
Intensity
| Intensity | Development | Recovery per day | Injury risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| light | × 0.75 | +6 | × 0.5 |
| normal | × 1 | 0 | × 1 |
| hard | × 1.25 | −6 | × 1.8 |
Individual training and retraining
- One skill as focus: it gets half of the player's training points.
- Retraining to a position: after 10 weeks he can play it as a second position, after 25 weeks it is as good as his own.
Training camp
Once per season, bookable from day 1 to day 32. For 3 weeks development is × 1.3 and morale rises by 5. It starts with the next new week. Cost in the County League: 8,000 €.
Assistant coach for training (Pro)
- Every morning he plans the team focus, the intensity and each player's individual training by freshness and needs, keeping the training stimulus up.
- He follows the same rules as you: he changes no potential and never trains beyond the rules. Retraining to a new position stays your call.
- Everything he sets you can also set yourself. You can switch him off at any time.
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