Training and Self-Investment: How to Run a Season

The four training directions

You choose from attribute training, rest and recovery, personal coach and media work. Attribute training is the basic way to raise OVR, and rest and recovery looks after a tired body. What each one does is written in the description shown when you pick it, so in your first few seasons the fastest way to learn is to read the descriptions and try each one.

After you pick a training, its description appears below, and in the coach notes you can see how OVR and attributes have changed since the start of the season. Rather than repeating the same training, get in the habit of reading the coach notes and deciding the next phase from them.

Why building only one attribute costs you

If you push one attribute too far ahead of your other main attributes, training growth shrinks. The size of the reduction is shown in the description when you pick a training. OVR looks at all the main attributes of a detailed position together, so a player with evenly high main attributes raises OVR faster than one with a single high attribute.

There is an exception for players rated by the higher of two roles, such as a wide midfielder of the Winger type or a striker of the Target man type. Raising the attributes of either role can raise their OVR. Check both role values in the per-position OVR on the attribute screen.

When to use self-investment

Separately from training, you can spend funds each phase on weakness drills, strength drills, medical care and mental coaching. Costs scale with salary, so the same investment is cheaper in your low-salary younger years.

The growth from drills is also affected by age, potential and morale. In a phase where morale has dropped, recovering it first with mental coaching or rest can help next phase’s growth more than drills. If you get injured often, consider medical care first.

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