Individual Training Planner

[Toxcatl]

Here's a little trick I want to share with you.

As you probably know, if you add Goalkeeper Training (GKT) drill to a field players session, the experience won't be lost, it will be stored undistributed until any other, "normal", drill is used. This experience can also be saved for the next training session if GKT is the last drill in this session, but will disappear before a game if left undistributed.

Example. You can do 6x GKT several times and then any other drill once, let's say 1-on-1 Finishing. This will give all the XP from GKT you did to this 1-on-1 Finishing, nothing will be lost. But if instead of 1-on-1 Finishing you will send the player to play a match, then XP from GKT will be lost. So be careful here.

Next, two following training sessions have the same total condition loss (7.5%) and therefore should give the same skill gain:

5x 1-on-1 finishing (5 * 1.5% = 7.5%)

and

2x GK Training + 1x 1-on-1 finishing (2 * 3% + 1.5% = 7.5%)

But only if levels of both drills (1-on-1 Finishing and GKT) are the same. What if level of GKT is higher? Will it provide the bonus? If yes, this would mean that we can boost any low-level drill with Goalkeeper Training of higher level.
It happens that I have 1-On-1 Finishing lvl 1 and GKT lvl 3 (+20% experience). I trained a striker with sessions I mentioned above, 60 times each. If the theory is correct, the second session should deliver ~16% more experience (and, therefore, skill gain) than the first session.
And here are the results:

Column 1: total gain from 60 sessions with 5x 1-on-1 Finishing
Column 2: total gain from 60 sessions with 2x GKT and 1x 1-on-1 Finishing
Column 3: how much exactly the sessions with GKTs are better than the sessions with only 1-on-1 Finishings; 116% expected.

It seems to be confirmed. So if you have a low-level drill, you can boost its efficiency by adding higher level GKT before it, the more, the better. And if your training level has not reached the cap (level 91), then go for Defense drills and make Goalkeeper Training as high level as possible.

[stylez777]

It seems to be confirmed. So if you have a low-level drill, you can boost its efficiency by adding higher level GKT before it, the more, the better. And if your training level has not reached the cap (level 91), then go for Defense drills and make Goalkeeper Training as high level as possible.

Hi there, The last part that says if you are not max levle 91 trianing focus on defense drills and GK trianing. Does this mean that each level i go up (9, 10 11 etc) I select the defense option it gives me and get my GKT to the 3 whistle max?

[Cedric]

Hi there, The last part that says if you are not max levle 91 trianing focus on defense drills and GK trianing. Does this mean that each level i go up (9, 10 11 etc) I select the defense option it gives me and get my GKT to the 3 whistle max?

That's right, only raise defense until the training of GK, reaches golden ball, which follows after 3 whistles!

[Toxcatl]

Does this mean that each level i go up (9, 10 11 etc) I select the defense option it gives me and get my GKT to the 3 whistle max?

GKT is just an ordinary drill, and you level it up as any other drill. It doesn't goes up automatically every time you tap Defense and choose to improve another defensive drill. All I want to say is if you have high level GKT, you can virtually improve level of any other (low-level) drill by adding several GKTs before that drill in the training schedule.
It is good to have GKT as high level as possible. It is also good to have all the drills unlocked. But it's not that important to level up other drills after you have unlocked them. Levels in GKT are more useful.