mastershake5825

The Plan

To test training in FM07.

The Method

Take 4 teams:
1 from each professional English League (with various expectations & training ground status):
Premiership – Chelsea (Title Contenders, Excellent Facilities)
Championship – Hull (Mid-Table, Good Facilities)
League 1 – S****horpe (Mid-Table, Average Facilities)
League 2 – Chester (Relegation Candidates, Poor Facilities)

Play 2 seasons:
1st season – Leave training on default settings, Auto-assign coaches.
2nd season – Alter training to slightly more intensive & logical training regimes (defenders defending, strikers attacking & shooting etc) keeping total intensity at the last bar of Medium for overall training intensity (therefore still not overly aggressive), Auto-assign coaches.

No other changes were made to the teams, no player\staff changes, no changing formations….this is just a training test.

The Outcome
Note: FM Genie Scout used to find out some of these figures.

Chelsea
Performance
Season 1 – Won the Premiership with 78 points scoring 69, conceding 27 & winning 23.
Season 2 – 4th in the Premiership with 67 points scoring 56, conceding 32 & winning 19.
Training Results
Season 1 – Avg Squad CA improvement (10.33), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (1.86)
Season 2 – Avg Squad CA improvement (9.33), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (0.87)
Injuries
Season 1 – Total Injuries (30), Total days lost to injuries (507)
Season 2 – Total Injuries (40), Total days lost to injuries (609)

Hull
Performance
Season 1 – 22nd in the Championship with 47 points scoring 44, conceding 60 & winning 11.
Season 2 – 22nd in the Championship with 44 points scoring 46, conceding 72 & winning 10.
Training Results
Season 1 – Avg Squad CA improvement (3.98), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (0.04)
Season 2 – Avg Squad CA improvement (4.1364), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (-0.31)
Injuries
Season 1 – Total Injuries (35), Total days lost to injuries (693)
Season 2 – Total Injuries (53), Total days lost to injuries (1175)

S****horpe
Performance
Season 1 – 6th in League 1 (Lost Playoff Final) with 73 points scoring 75, conceding 63 & winning 22.
Season 2 – 9th in League 1 with 69 points scoring 69, conceding 61 & winning 19.
Training Results
Season 1 – Avg Squad CA improvement (5.63), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (0.14)
Season 2 – Avg Squad CA improvement (5.46), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (0.50)
Injuries
Season 1 – Total Injuries (26), Total days lost to injuries (665)
Season 2 – Total Injuries (38), Total days lost to injuries (755)

Chester
Performance
Season 1 – 24th (Bottom) in League 2 with 28 points scoring 32, conceding 76 & winning 5.
Season 2 – 24th (Bottom) in League 2 with 27 points scoring 35, conceding 70 & winning 3.
Training Results
Season 1 – Avg Squad CA improvement (4.82), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (-1.10)
Season 2 – Avg Squad CA improvement (5.57), Avg Squad Scout% improvement (-0.14)
Injuries
Season 1 – Total Injuries (30), Total days lost to injuries (507)
Season 2 – Total Injuries (40), Total days lost to injuries (609)

Conclusions

Performance
With a more intensive training regime, every single team finished with less points than on the standard regime.

Training Results
In terms of stats & CA, there doesn't seem to be that much of a difference in the 2 regimes

Injuries
Amount - An average of 40% more injuries per season on the higher regime
Length - An average of over 183 days more that players are out as a whole for the season

Overall
I would say that it seems less is more in the trial I have done. There seems to be no benefits from training players harder other than more injuries. These were only basic tests & I’ll admit that, but if anyone is interested in the save games to look over things for themselves I have 3 (1 start, 1 at end of default training & 1 at end of heavier training) which I will upload if there’s enough interest.

For the time being though, see this spreadsheet, which details individual players training improvements\injuries etc.

mastershake5825

:eek: :cool:

mastershake5825

Not sure if I made clear that it was the same 1st season played over I reloaded the starting game after the 1st default season ended to replay the same season with the heavier regime.

retired_Komododragoon

Great test.

Maybe you could try it with a heavy training intensity, as there doesn't seem to be a huge difference between the default training intensity and the intensity just below heavy.

mastershake5825

I had originally set out to do it with a third "heavy" regime, but after seeing the amount of injuries on the, only slightly, more intensive training than default I wasn't sure there was much point.

I'm just wondering whether to try it with my new tactics set I've made which seems to be working exceptionally well in my current normal game. :cool:

Will give that a try if I can find time to run another holiday game (takes a while to run with 4 active teams!)