I can't look it up anymore, but as far as I remember my initial center had 1 downpop at 30, and 1 downpop in an other skill when he was 31, he then had 2 downpops when he was 32.
But this was almost 10 seasons ago...
I now have prety old players in my team. and can't recall anyone getting a downpop, but I have been training my team as a whole for years untill I started 1 position training 4 seasons ago. So many might have been high in subskills.
I'm prety sure they are dropping when they are 30, not so sure about earlier, but I vaguely remember to have read 28 or 29 somewhere in the early days.
Maybe a trainee with career extension postpones the effects with 1 year or so, or how would it work???
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