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As a rule of thumb go for massage of you have an unbalanced team with starters who are way better than the backups (unless you can get garbage time every week, your starters will play too many minutes if they start 2 games)

. The psychologist will help regardless, because part of the GS is still down to luck, but of course it is more useful with teams that can't hit optimal minute ranges consistently.

So you think that if starters play too much minutes (than the optimal ones) it is necessary to have a doctor massage.

While if you have a consistently range between played minutes and optimal minutes it is more useful a psychologist.
Is it correct?

Massage Doctor helps players stay in better shape when they play too many minutes.

Sports Psychologist helps players stay in and get to better shape when they're in a good minutes range and just gives them an additional boost.

That's as simple as I can explain it and I think gets the point across in a basic way.

Get both.

I remember, used to have around 8.2-8.3 average GS season long (not counting first 2weeks), with alittle bit constantly overplaying players 80 mins each week.

With both i think it is possible to average around 8.5-8.6. That is pretty huge, overall using 2nd season lvl 5 psychologist, very happy with the results.

Loot at the situation from other perspective: would you pay 15k (psychologist salary) to get 1 player per week at 9 game shapre instead of 8; i think that is the overall difference. And the more expensive and important players are, and the more competetive leage, basicly it means few wins per season, playoffs/no playoffs and promotions versus boiling in your own juices in the same league next season.

I'll take the psychologist, BUT the doctor is also rather inexpensive in that just get whatever level you currently have but with the specialty. Massage doctors are slightly more expensive than their no-specialty counterparts, but it's not massive. Think about it this way: if you have imperfect minutes the psychologist will definitely help as it's unlikely you will have many players naturally reaching 9 GS (you can't go higher than that). Massage may help but you'd need 80+ minutes for it to show it's worth probably. I think 8-9 ST players should play at least 70 minutes anyway given the changes to GS.

I'm slightly uneasy about Massage after the change as in your case what would happen with 75 minutes and 9 ST player? Does Massage kick in and artificially lower the Minutes for the purpose of the training update calculation? Say it works by reducing the 75 to 70 or 65, this may be perfect for a 6 ST player but it may be detrimental for this 9 ST player.

I doubt it's that way, I have an 8 stamina player that kept 9 GS for just about the whole season and with massage doctor and lvl 6 sports psychologist. The player often only played exactly 48 minutes per week as they were a trainee