
Originally Posted by
Amane Ito
Friendly doesn't do it. Friendly is incompetitive, the effect of it is similar to training which means the form will natually improve if you play friendly games. Even a bad form player will get his form fixed in a few games, making the test invalid.
In order to keep a player in low form, he must keep playing as much competitive games as possible so that there is no chance for his motivation to recover.
Another problem of a low form player is that he have negative effect on other player's form even when he is not the captain. But if you name him the captain, the result is so disastrous it is difficult to miss.
I had entire seasons dedicated to experiments as I refused to use a single token for a period of 10 seasons.