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Do they really work? I have a 33 yr old who just dropped two driving levels today and an ID level last week.
I have had this trainer with Career Extension speciality for a season now but it seems like it is BS. I have seen 34/35 yr olds drop skills slower than this player without a Career Extension trainer.

In my experience Career Extension trainers do have an impact. I have a 40 yr old player on my team with a TSP in the mid 80's. He's lost 10 TSP from his age 38 season until now (all with a Career Extension trainer).

Over that time he's transitioned from a starting caliber SF to a backup PG based on which skills have dropped.

Yes they work. But like everything else in BB, the spec is a gambling. I have a 38y/o player and until the age of 36 he had almost no downs thanks to a lv 6 career coach. After I switched to a lv 4 career coach he had more downs. Today he had his 8th double down and reached 100 TSP.

I cannot find the thread where it was mentioned. It was already 8 or 9 years ago. But if my memory doesn't fail me there was a post by a BB about the career coach. If I recall correct, you have a chance of 25%, that at the training update no negative effect occures --> career spec kicks in. If the 75% happen, your player will receive a decrease of skill(s) (visible or not). But at this point the level of the coach kicks in. Lv 1 will have a higher skill loss than lv4 and this one higher than lv 7.
So a lv 7 career coach won't change the possibility of a drop in skills, but he will reduce the speed of decline.
Unfortunately I cannot find the bookmark... maybe someone else has a link.

In the game manual (or as i remember it) it is stated that the specialties are not affected by the level of your staff, so either that is a coincidence or the manual (or I) is flat out wrong !

The usual doctrine was that the level of staff makes no difference in regard to specialties.

Yes. All 7 levels have would have the same speciality: 25%(?) chance to neutralize the skill down

Like I said, I read something about the specialities years ago. I will search the forums and my own copies from interesting posts and see if I can find anything on it. I know exactly that this question was asked to Marin. But Charles or Forrester were the ones who posted something.

Yes. I searched the forums for almost two hours and found it:

(203810.34)
The user csanyes was also known as Raymund (he was even BB-Raymund for some time as far as I know) at the time of the post. Later a former GM and MOD (Crazy-Eye) links this post in another thread: (212072.6)

There is the difference between the spec (all levels have the same on) and than the influence of the skill during the training update.