Here's what I thought this morning: since training speed depends on market value, maybe my players were training slow because they have a lot of unassigned SPs (25-30 each). So I assigned all 370 saved SPs. The said players went up about 2Q levels, most gained 4th*. The market value increased to be slightly higher than at the end of last season.

And guess what? NOTHING.

Just more horrible examples:

1) Stretching on normal. All these 22 y. olds were gaining at least TWICE more than this 24 y. old last season
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2) Cardio on normal. Looks like these two switched their training speed: now the 23 y. o. is gaining what the 22 y. o. was gaining last season. 11% on cardio, that's what a SCOUT of his age would earn but Sieber is NOT a scout, he's 2SPs off his 3rd* star...
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