For the past few years, I trained my team fairly well by the "new training system". No cheating, just regular training. I used some saved greens at the start of each season to make up for the lost % by the past promotion. By now, my team looks like this:
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You see 23 players with their % for each skill. I strongly believe that the performance in the games is determined by the white skills of the player's position only. Therefore I calculated the player's average skill % for the white skills of every position. You see that on the right side of the screenshot.
Some example. For a player that is DL only, the white skills are Tackling, Marking, Positioning, Bravery, Crossing, Fitness, Aggression and Speed. When you play a player at the DL position, these skills determine the players performance. Therefore, the % in the column DL are calculated by the average % for these skills.
What can you tell from my team sheet?
- It was fairly easy to achieve skill % above 200%. In a few cases I also reached 300%.
- By keeping players for about 5 seasons, many gray skills that are not trained will be 1%.
- The starting 11 players have a total average of 130% max (player nr. 1-11).
- For my regular formation, the average for the relevant skills can be as much as 188% (green indicators).
My team is not exceptional. Everybody can do this and many of you have done so. A team performing at 188% is quite normal. That is, apart from those up-selling teams that perform close to 340%.
A few weeks ago, the gain from training drills was changed to no longer be determined by the player's average % for all skills, but by the player's average % for the skills used in that particular drill. As you can see from the skill % in my sheet and the limited available choices of training drills, I can no longer find any training drill that will give a decent return. Training drills that contain white skills only regularly have an average skill % of like 180%. Using these drills my players would gain nothing. Therefore, I switched to GK training. I usually trained 5x GK, followed by the drill I actually wanted. That gave me a decent return for the fist 5 drills, which was acceptable overall. Yesterday, they remove this last option.
So now what to do with training?
For me it is absolutely clear that those players with skills above 200% will disappear in the far future. This is a bizarre change from the current practice. As you can see, I'm used to having many relevant skills of more than 200% for my starting 11. And I only use a little bit of training.
For the coming months, I can do nothing for training. My players cannot get any better in their relevant skills. I cannot replace them by other players, since these players will never reach relevant skill averages like 200%.
It's even worse. I cannot get promoted in the league either. The 20% loss by the promotion cannot be made up by training. In the cup, champions league and associations, I will meet teams that are tanking and keep their high-skilled players. The only option I have is to tank too.
This will continue, until I'm forced to renew my squad due to the retirement of my players. This will only be in more than a year from now.
Until that time, I cannot train, I cannot play the league. Was that really Nordeus' intention by these last updates? For me it is no fun being forced to play like this.
