is something wrong with trainings performances ratings ?

[dieguitoch]

Hello !

Now trainings performances ratings seem to show players improvements instead of players "work" or implication. Young players almost always have better ratings than old one even if they have better "mental" attributes. A player could train hard and not progress and the opposite but we should be able to track who's doing his best (or not) to be able to "praise" or "criticize" him !

Plus, we should know who's working hard and is really committed to, eventually, pick him in our squad and, if so, he should perform better than a player who's nonchalant. (But I still can't figure if there's a relation between training ratings and players performances on the pitch as it should)

Thanks...

[Prepper_Jack]

Well, player progression is a bit more complex than just training them a lot, though if a player has a high standard of training for a fair period, this can be very good thing. But, if you don't play them for a long time, a lot of that training can go to waste. They need to apply what they've learned in training on the pitch to actually progress. If they get good ratings in the matches they are in, and perform very well after a decent period of training, you will probably start to see a lot of green arrows on their attribute sheet. Conversely, if your tactic is a bit malformed, and the role you're stuffing them into is bound to run into difficulties, and they average about 6.5 on the field, they're not going to progress very quickly. After training and not playing, they usually do perform a bit better than they ordinarily would - but they need to see actual positive results on the pitch to make those increases more permanent.

As for making training performances better, making them more enjoyable is a good start. Ensure that each day yields a happiness of "increased" or "greatly increased". A lot of people will avoid throwing in physical training during the season, but if you really feel that your players need that extra bit of endurance for your high press game, you can throw in an endurance session combined with a team bonding session, and they won't usually complain, because happiness for that day will be "increased". Players love match practice, which is great, as that strongly exercises the stats you're training them in. Schedule that twice a week every week. If you're pro, throw in an equal number of defending and attacking sessions. They like those a lot too, but only if their training unit is not being ignored. If players are happy with training, and the team is performing decently on the pitch, their performances will usually be good. A couple weeks ago I had an instance where every person on the team had a training rating of 10.

As far as praising or criticizing, I'd suggest praising the top two or three in the training report, and criticizing the bottom two or three - if there's bad performances. You can even criticize good performances, if they're at the bottom of the heap - like if most people are getting 9-10, and a few guys have 8.1, they'll accept they're lagging behind in training. Usually. Just avoid repeating the same stuff to the same people in a short time span and you should be good.