How to train your players properly after the update

[TropikThunder]

This is the updated Etheridge after giving him about 180 rests. Imagine all his skills from the picture in the first post -20%, because he of course lost a star.

I trained Hold The Line, Gym, Press The Play, Stop The Attacker and a bit of Defending Crosses. You easily will recognize, when its not worth training a drill anymore, because progression gets very slow.

So Etherisge was at 103%/(270), dripped to 83%/(270) when the season restarted, then you trained him as described and he increased to 110%/(277)? That’s impressive! So it’s nice to see players still able to gain skill points even when they are at 6 stars.

Similar, has anyone seen a decrease in skill points from playing games? I played 3 friendlies last evening ahead of the restart and got a grand total of 8 skill points (3 games, 33 player-games, 8 skill points). Same from my cup game this morning, dominated a much weaker team 9-0 and only got 4 skill points for the 11 players. At the end of last season I was getting 15-20 skill points per game with some players getting 6-7 skill points themselves. Anyone else see this and have ideas?