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Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2012-01-11T23:32:43Z

Mawerick: /* Third season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments:
- 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A". 
- Useful players on other spots. A smart thing is to buy some cheap old players with good experience. 1 keeper, 1 ving, 2-3 inner midfielders, 2 forwards. 

<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups: 
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training. 
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training. 

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding</td><td>Solid</td><td>28</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Solid++++/Excellent</td><td>Solid</td><td>25-26</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Magnificient</td><td>Solid++</td><td>30</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Formidable</td><td>Solid++</td><td>27</td></tr>
</table>
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

'''Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Ability</td><td>Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>Age</td><td>19</td></tr>
<tr><td>Defending</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Passing</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Playmaking</td><td>Brilliant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Winger</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speciality</td><td>Something</td></tr>
</table>

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 23</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding+++</td><td>32</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Excellent</td><td>24</td></tr>
</table>

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-07T21:33:31Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments:
- 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A". 
- Useful players on other spots. A smart thing is to buy some cheap old players with good experience. 1 keeper, 1 ving, 2-3 inner midfielders, 2 forwards. 

<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding</td><td>Solid</td><td>28</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Solid++++/Excellent</td><td>Solid</td><td>25-26</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Magnificient</td><td>Solid++</td><td>30</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Formidable</td><td>Solid++</td><td>27</td></tr>
</table>
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

'''Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Ability</td><td>Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>Age</td><td>19</td></tr>
<tr><td>Defending</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Passing</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Playmaking</td><td>Brilliant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Winger</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speciality</td><td>Something</td></tr>
</table>

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 23</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding+++</td><td>32</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Excellent</td><td>24</td></tr>
</table>

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Defending training

2011-11-06T23:38:47Z

Mawerick: /* Training Plans */

{{Interwiki/Defending training}}

This training type trains the [[defending]] skill for all [[Central Defender|central defender]] and [[wingback]]s. About 13% of the managers train defending. Note that [[defensive positions]] also trains the [[defending]] skill, for more players (midfield as well) but at a slower rate (about 50 % of defending training).

==Pros==

* Training [[defenders]] is traditionally the most profitable [[training]] regime
* Up to ten players may be trained every week, the maximum among primary skill training regimes
* Interesting [[tactics|tactical]] options, involving [[CA]], and different uses of [[wingback]]s

==Cons==

* Due to maximal training depending on playing five defenders each game, the attack and midfield of a defense trainer is necessarily weakened, as half the team is playing in defense.
* Managers must choose between training at maximum potential, or switching to a 'better' formation with fewer players at the back in league games
* Defence trainers often need to buy defenders with [[passing]], enabling them to counter attack. These players will not recoup full value at the time of selling
* Training is the slowest of the main training types
* Lack of goals means supporters are reluctant to follow your club
* Can be boring, as players take some time to increase in skill, and games are low scoring
* Difficult for [[newbie]]s, as defence is less important in lower series.

==Training Plans==

* [[Initial Defending Training]]
* [[Max A Team Defending Training]]
* [[Multiskilled Defending Training]]
* [[Detailed Multiskilled Defending Training]]

==Federations==

* [[Defense Trainers]]
* [[Nederlandse Verdedigings Federatie]] (Dutch)
* [[Föderation für Abwehrspieler]] (German)
* [[Pakkitreenarit!]] (Finnish)
[[Category:Training types]]

Defending training

2011-11-06T23:38:16Z

Mawerick: /* Training Plans */

{{Interwiki/Defending training}}

This training type trains the [[defending]] skill for all [[Central Defender|central defender]] and [[wingback]]s. About 13% of the managers train defending. Note that [[defensive positions]] also trains the [[defending]] skill, for more players (midfield as well) but at a slower rate (about 50 % of defending training).

==Pros==

* Training [[defenders]] is traditionally the most profitable [[training]] regime
* Up to ten players may be trained every week, the maximum among primary skill training regimes
* Interesting [[tactics|tactical]] options, involving [[CA]], and different uses of [[wingback]]s

==Cons==

* Due to maximal training depending on playing five defenders each game, the attack and midfield of a defense trainer is necessarily weakened, as half the team is playing in defense.
* Managers must choose between training at maximum potential, or switching to a 'better' formation with fewer players at the back in league games
* Defence trainers often need to buy defenders with [[passing]], enabling them to counter attack. These players will not recoup full value at the time of selling
* Training is the slowest of the main training types
* Lack of goals means supporters are reluctant to follow your club
* Can be boring, as players take some time to increase in skill, and games are low scoring
* Difficult for [[newbie]]s, as defence is less important in lower series.

==Training Plans==

* [[Initial Defending Training]]
* [[Max A Team Defending Training]]
* [[Multiskilled Defending Training]]
* [[Detailed_Multiskilled_Defending_Training]]

==Federations==

* [[Defense Trainers]]
* [[Nederlandse Verdedigings Federatie]] (Dutch)
* [[Föderation für Abwehrspieler]] (German)
* [[Pakkitreenarit!]] (Finnish)
[[Category:Training types]]

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:31:30Z

Mawerick: /* Sixth season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding</td><td>Solid</td><td>28</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Solid++++/Excellent</td><td>Solid</td><td>25-26</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Magnificient</td><td>Solid++</td><td>30</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Formidable</td><td>Solid++</td><td>27</td></tr>
</table>
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

'''Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Ability</td><td>Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>Age</td><td>19</td></tr>
<tr><td>Defending</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Passing</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Playmaking</td><td>Brilliant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Winger</td><td>Inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speciality</td><td>Something</td></tr>
</table>

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 23</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding+++</td><td>32</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Excellent</td><td>24</td></tr>
</table>

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:29:36Z

Mawerick: /* Training */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable++</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding</td><td>Solid</td><td>28</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 21</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Solid++++/Excellent</td><td>Solid</td><td>25-26</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Magnificient</td><td>Solid++</td><td>30</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 22</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Formidable</td><td>Solid++</td><td>27</td></tr>
</table>
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

'''Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Ability</td><td>Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>Age</td><td>19</td></tr>
<tr><td>Defending</td><td>inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Passing</td><td>inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Playmaking</td><td>brilliant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Winger</td><td>inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speciality</td><td>Something</td></tr>
</table>

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 23</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Outstanding+++</td><td>32</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Excellent</td><td>24</td></tr>
</table>

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:10:44Z

Mawerick: /* Training */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

'''Status end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

'''Skills in the end of the season'''
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:09:39Z

Mawerick: /* Third season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>6</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>4</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:08:50Z

Mawerick: /* Third season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable++++/Solid</td><td>Passable</td><td>23-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>B</td><td>10</td><td>Around 20</td><td>Brilliant</td><td>Passable</td><td>Passable</td><td>23</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:02:19Z

Mawerick: /* Second season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>21</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:01:02Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>20</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T23:00:33Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17 year</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking. 
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>20</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:59:43Z

Mawerick: /* Second season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17 year</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and inadequate playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>20</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:58:47Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 17 year</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>20</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:58:22Z

Mawerick: /* Second season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>17 year 10 days</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

Status end of the season.
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 19</td><td>Outstanding++</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Passable</td><td>20</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:56:26Z

Mawerick: /* Second season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>17 year 10 days</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have outstanding defending with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:54:33Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>17 year 10 days</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around excellent defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.
Status end of the season:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group</td><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>A</td><td>10</td><td>Around 18</td><td>Excellent</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate+</td><td>18</td></tr>
</table>

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:50:15Z

Mawerick: /* Training */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Amount trainees</td><td>Age trainee</td><td>Defending</td><td>Playmaking</td><td>Passing</td><td>Index</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>17 year 10 days</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>Inadequate</td><td>15</td></tr>
</table>

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:43:13Z

Mawerick: /* First season */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes is a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:40:06Z

Mawerick: /* Get talents */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:39:26Z

Mawerick: /* Get talents */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Reach brilliant in all 3 areas</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 12</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 15</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 16</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 17</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 18</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 19</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>17 10 days</td> <tr><td>index 20</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days. </td></tr>
<tr><td>18 0 days</td> <tr><td>index 21</td><td>Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.</td></tr>
</table>

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:32:55Z

Mawerick: /* Get talents */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:31:58Z

Mawerick: /* Get talents */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table border=1><tr><td>Age</td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:31:16Z

Mawerick: /* Get talents */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
<table><tr><td>Age></td><td>Mainskillindex</td><td>Example</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 year</td><td>14-19</td><td>2x solid and 1x inadequate</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 year</td><td>17-22</td><td>1x excellent, 2x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 year</td><td>20-25</td><td>2x formidable, 1x solid)</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 year</td><td>23-28</td><td>2x formidable, 1x outstanding)</td></tr>
</table>

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:25:36Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:24:40Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is [[inadequate]] in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:22:16Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First season''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second season''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third season''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth season''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth season''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth season''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh season''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:17:07Z

Mawerick: /* Training */

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''First year:''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''Second year:''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''Third year:''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''Fourth year:''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''Fifth year:''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''Sixth year:''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''Seventh year:''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:15:53Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''1. year:''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''2. year:''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''3. year:''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''4. year:''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''5. year:''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''6. year:''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''7. year:''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:15:45Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.
 
Same strategy can be done on other forms for training, like scoring and playmaking training.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''1. year:''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''2. year:''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''3. year:''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''4. year:''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''5. year:''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''6. year:''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''7. year:''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:14:24Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.

== '''Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''1. year:''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''2. year:''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''3. year:''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''4. year:''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''5. year:''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''6. year:''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''7. year:''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:13:47Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.

== '''1. part - Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''2. part Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

=== '''''1. year:''''' ===
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

=== '''''2. year:''''' ===
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

=== '''''3. year:''''' ===
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

=== '''''4. year:''''' ===
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

=== '''''5. year:''''' ===
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

=== '''''6. year:''''' ===
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

=== '''''7. year:''''' ===
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:12:33Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.

== '''1. part - Get talents''' ==
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

== '''2. Training''' ==
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

'''''1. year:'''''
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

'''''2. year:'''''
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

'''''3. year:'''''
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

'''''4. year:'''''
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

'''''5. year:'''''
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

'''''6. year:'''''
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

'''''7. year:'''''
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

2011-11-06T22:10:35Z

Mawerick:

This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.

'''1. part - Get talents'''
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

'''2. Training'''
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

'''''1. year:'''''
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

'''''2. year:'''''
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

'''''3. year:'''''
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

'''''4. year:'''''
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

'''''5. year:'''''
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

'''''6. year:'''''
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

'''''7. year:'''''
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.

Multi-skilled Defending Trainees

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This is a sort of training with goal to get multiskilled defenders. The plan is a bit detailed, so make sure that you read it closely.
First part is to train defending, then go for playmaking and at the end passing training. Important to train defending first, as this is the slowest training form. The goal at the end is to get players who got brilliant on all these 3 areas. They should be around 22-23 years old at that time.

'''1. part - Get talents'''
What kind of talents you should buy depends a lot of your budget. Let's say you don't have too much cash to spare. Then you try to get useful players for lowest price as possible. Thing is, in the long run there isn't too much difference between a player who is inadequate in the 3 main areas versus one who are passable there. This is because the lower skills train faster than the higher skills.

To get a roughly good picture how good the trainees are, I calculate an index on them. It is simply to summarize the 3 main skills. (Inadequate defending, playmaking and passing give 5x3 = 15 in index.)
I have also extended this to take other skills in consideration:
- Wing -> +1 in index for inadequate wing, and additional 1 for every skill above inadequate. I.e passable wing give +2 in index.
- Set Pieces - +1 in index for trainees with set pieces skill at inadequate or more.
- Speciality - +2 in index for having a speciality
So, a player with inadequate on all the 3 main areas, inadequate wing and set pieces, and a speciality will get 19 in total index.

This goes for players who are 17 years old. I use as a thumbrule that a 18 year old trainee should have around 3 more indexpoints on the mainskills than a 17 year one.
17 year trainee: Index 14-19 on the mainskills (example 2x solid and 1x inadequate)
18 year trainee: Index 17-22 on the mainskills (example 1x excellent, 2x solid)
19 year trainee: Index 20-25 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x solid)
20 year trainee: Index 23-28 on the mainskills (example 2x formidable, 1x outstanding)

I also did a calculation on how long time it takes for different kind of players to reach brilliant in all 3 main areas. In average we talk about 30 days difference for every index. Which means about 4 weeks of training.
17 year old, 10 days, index 12 -> Approxmately brilliant around 23 years and 63 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 15 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 102 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 16 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 72 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 17 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 47 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 18 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 4 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 19 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 96 days.
17 year old, 10 days, index 20 -> Approxmately brilliant around 21 years and 66 days.
18 year old, 0 days, index 21 -> Approxmately brilliant around 22 years and 28 days.

'''2. Training'''
To maximize the training, use a formation with 5 defenders. Which means 5-3-2. 5-4-1, 5-5-0 or 5-2-3.

''1. year:''
Investments: 10 trainees. (Ex 3x inadequate with other subskills and speciality). Let us call this group "Group A".

You will get 14 or 15 weeks with defending training and 1-2 where you should train passing. Since you only get 1 match in the seasonbreak, it might be smart to use 5-5-0 and get passingtraining to all trainees. Through passes are a little bit slower than normal passing.

Skillpop: The first year you will probably get up to 3 pops on your players. Which means around solid defending, inadequate passing and inadequate playmaking.

''2. year:''
Continue with the same. Also this year you might get close to 3 pops, even though most of the trainees will pop twice. Which means you will have formidable/outstanding defenders with passable passing (passing training in the season break) and playmaking.

''3. year:''
The trainees have turned 19 years old. Now you will see that it requires more weeks for every pop. So you can train your players in defending half the season, and see how far they have reached. You should now have many players with around brilliant skill. Let us say you stop after half of the season.

Now you can switch training type. Normally you will go for playmaking, which require 3-5-2, 4-5-1 or 5-5-0. You get 6 players trained each weak at 100%, and 4 at 50%. So if you have players that seems better than other, make sure these are getting a 100% spot. There are other ways doing this. You can have 1 to play at an inner position every match, then you swap the wingers and the other inner midfielders halfway in the match. This should give 1 player 100% training, and 4 players 75%. Which means 2 players on 100% and 8 on 75%.

If we do as most of the player will do, we will get 2 new groups:
1. Group A - Will only contain the 6 players getting 100% training.
2. Group B - Will only contain the 4 players getting 50% training.

Anyway, the rest of the season you will get 1-2 pops on playmaking on each player. Depends what their subskill is. Let us say 1 pop.

Skills in the end of the season:
- Group A (6 players with about brilliant defending, passable passing and passable/solid playmaking)
- Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, passable passing and passable playmaking)

''4. year:''
Now the trainees turn 20 years old. Still the lower levels train fast. Playmaking is a little bit faster than defending, and you should be able to get up to 3 pops this season with the players in Group A. The players in group B should be able to get up to 2 pops if they are lucky.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and outstanding playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid passing (passing training in the season break) and solid/excellent playmaking)

''5. year:''
21 years old now. If we say 2 pops on the 100% trainees, and 1-1.5 on the 50% we are quite close I guess.

Skills in the end of the season:
1. Group A (6 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and magnificient playmaking)
2. Group B (4 players with brilliant defending, solid++ passing and formidable playmaking)
An option here is when the players in group A have reached brilliant playmaking, swap them with players from group B, so the players from group B reach brilliant playmaking faster.

Let us say that all are on brilliant playmaking at the end of the season.

''6. year:''
22 years now. Now there is passing training. With full training here, you might get 3 pops this season. (16 week with passing training) So your trainees should be on Outstanding++ passing.
But, you have 16 training spots with the fastest form for passingtraining each week. So you should get 5-6 new trainees that you train in passing. At this point you have to chose if you are going to sell these trainees or if you are going to use them in future. If you are going to get a buffer of cash, you could sell, and the players you buy up for using the last trainingspots in passing training, you train in defending in future.
This could be players that already have good playmaking skill. You then train them up in passing, So if we say 3 levels in passing here this season, and another 3 next season, then you continue with defending training.

Example of trainees you can buy for the extra passing training:
19 year
Defending: inadequate
Passing: inadequate
Playmaking: brilliant
Winger: inadequate
Speciality: Something

So, at the end of this season:
- 10 players with (brilliant defending, brilliant playmaking and brilliant passing)
- 6 players with (inadequate defending, excellent passing, brilliant playmaking)

The 10 fully trained players can then be sold (when they have reached brilliant passing), and you take the same process again.

''7. year:''
You now have 6 players left which you want to train further. And you can continue training passing, or go over to defending. If you continue train passing, make sure you buy up 10 new players, where 4 of them are going to be trained further. If you go over to defending, you buy 4 defender trainees.

And that's it basically.