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How does this method affect in-game results? Isnt stamina in game detrimental similar to game shape? Also, what happens in the instance of an injury?

Last edited by JimSardonic at 4/28/2011 1:32:53 AM

This method is the best if you want to maximize your training minutes in a week, but to have succes in the same time, you need your three trainees (or two of them if you're no longer playing the cup) to be at a certain minimum level in order to play 48 minutes and not making you loose your game...
Personally I can't, I think that it's more efficient to have a main trainee that will be your starter in your league games and a second one being is back-up, and of course, turn things around for the cup/scrimmage.

If there is an injury/fouled out early in one of the games then you're stuffed. But of course if the injury(one game injury only) occurred in game 1 then u can always improvise in the CUP/scrimmage game and play the trainee as backup to get the extra mins needed to attain 48+ mins.

In regards to stamina, it will decrease by a small amount every game... which is why it is a good idea to train stamina once a season, preferably during the All star weekend when there is 2 games. Also on a whole different matter, during the game there is a stamina bar (unrelated to the stamina skill attribute), this bar will determine how how fast your player gets tired. eg atrocious stamina means the player will get tired faster then if they were on proficient stamina. You want to have your trainee with at least aweful/inept stamina or you will see him sometimes get subbed out with 2 mins left... or he will be too tired to play the entire 48 mins properly and start fouling a lot.

If you want to win then sure you can train 2 trainees, but if winning is not your top priority you can train 3 players per week.

I do 3 trainees all the time.

The key is to prioritise the trainees. The 2 most important trainees get the first two games of the week, if they don't get their 48 due to foul out, bad coach substitutions or injuries, you play them in the 3rd game to make up the minutes. The 3rd guy gets the full 48 only if the first two do, and if he doesn't get the full 48 minutes, that's ok.

So making the two best trainees a priority is the way to go, and the 3rd guy is along for the ride (assuming there's room).

So I did this this week and it worked well for the first two games but my third trainee (cup match) only got 46 minutes because the coach pulled him out for two minutes at about the 43 minute mark. Do I need exactly 9 players? I had only 7 listed.

to be absolutely sure, you need to play 5 guys, but then you aren't competitive enough.

still, this shouldn't happen all too often. just go on using 9 guys, you should be fine. 46 minutes is regrettable, but not terrible.