assistant taking control?

[danspurs89]

Can you have success leaving general and individual training to your assistant?

I get bored or forget to change it around, I make sure I do the match tactics myself obviously.

Please reply someone

[LHurlz]

Individual training is fine, general is better off ran by yourself

[rekluse]

Would say it depends on your assistant. Playing at a top level, I always let my assistant handle all training unless I'm switching to a new tactic and want to focus on tactic training until it's maxed.

[Auqakuh]

Individual training is something you should always pay attention to, else you will potentially end up with either a team of generalists who are no good at anything in particular or a team of specialists who are great at things you don't need them to be.

The AM has no idea what is needed for your tactics. It seems to just look at the strongest role for a player ("he has 4/8 required attributes to be a DLP, therefore he is a DLP") and trains their weak needed attributes for that role, or, failing that, trains physical attributes necessary for overall competence ("stamina is a weakness, therefore train stamina"). That makes the AI kind of useless at developing youngsters, incidentally, because sometimes a young player might, by physical attributes (tall, strong), make a better DM than AM (probably better to be quick and agile than strong) but have higher initial creative attributes and therefore look, to the AI, like an AP(A) instead of, say, a DLP(D).

The AI also can't train players to fill roles specifically for your tactic, and you can. You know how many defensive midfielders, central midfielders, attacking midfielders, etc, that you actually need... and in which roles. Your assistant doesn't.

What this causes is effectively a drift in team philosophy (by which I mean the overall playing style of a group of players at a club). Over time, if you don't take charge of training, it is possible that your team will become increasingly unsuitable for your preferred tactic. Unless you're keeping a very close eye on player attributes and how they're changing, it's very probable that the first clue you'll have that this is the case is that your tactic will "inexplicably" start to no longer work as it used to.

Then people come onto the forum and say the AI has "figured out" their tactic... >.>

For example, 2011 Barcelona could only play like 2011 Barcelona because they trained to play like 2011 Barcelona. In fact, real 2014 Barcelona are increasingly not like the old Barcelona because they are no longer trained, in leadership, by someone who understands/implements the correct training philosophy. But they've been trying to retain the same tactical style... which means that they can't possibly be as good as they used to be (at that style).

The same thing incidentally has affected the Spanish national team - the players are no longer being trained in the right style at club level, which means the tactical setup for the national team no longer works (effectively) with those players.

[rekluse]

I generally keep players in their best position/roles anyways, and letting the AI handle it is also beneficial in that they fluctuate the training intensity more often, and in better detail, than I can be bothered to do myself.