Yubix said:
Very soon I would be completing one year in SM and am wondering if I could consider myself "successful".

I have 94% Junior and Senior coaches who are still undergoing training to get to 99%.

My stadium is under construction to get the 18k Pro and VIP each.

I don't have any school whatsoever.

My team which am still trying to develop instead of outrightly buying are about 65% average.

I have some cool 80+ prog players with one 90+ who am concentrating on at the moment.

Please this is my fourth season and I would definitely be getting promoted to Division 4. Would you say I am "successful"? Please tell me your reasons for either a yes or a no, I would sincerely be glad to hear from anyone.

Thank you.

Yubix said:
Very soon I would be completing one year in SM and am wondering if I could consider myself "successful".

Pro Tip: Leadership is entirely useless. Do not train leadership, ever..
Each time you train corner kicks/penalty shots, you decrease the training those players will get in stats that matter.

Leadership increases average. Also, I think the more leadership, the more quickly a player increases experience, then skills.

Buckeye623 said:


Each day leadership is trained: The average of a player increases, but game performance does not.

1) If you train leadership, you are DECREASING that player's maximum shooting/dribbling/passing [or ball steal if that player is a defender] stats. This is called opportunity cost - you can't train everything.
Every day you train, the next day's maximum potential training% decreases slightly. If you train leadership, you are exchanging a forward's ability to put the ball in the net [shooting] for something that has much less marginal value.

Each player has maximum forecast and progression... so when you train leadership, you are saying that for your forward, you'd rather have 84 shooting and 90 progression instead of 95 shooting and 30 progression. You cannot have both unless the player has 99 prog/99 FC and you have training days to spare.

2) Skill comes from game experience, period. The differential that leadership applies to the acquisition of skill is extraordinarily small.. eg, instead of 3.00 you get the first skill at 2.95, for example. So the only actual difference comes during the EXTRAORDINARILY SMALL time differential between [2.95] when you get the skill with leadership applied... and when you would otherwise get the skill [3.00] with no leadership training performed!! That's a week - 3 games.


So, for a forward training leadership: You've exchanged the ability to have your player's shooting ability at 95 for 3 games of having his shooting at 84 plus the undetermined shooting benefit of the shooting "skill".
After those 3 games, the forward with shooting at 95 would also have the shooting "skill". If skills increase stats based on a percentage, let's say 25%, then that player with 95 and the shooting "skill" has an actual rating of [95*1.25] 118.75, and the player with 84 has an actual rating of 105.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. As I said before: Leadership is entirely useless. Do not train leadership, ever..

I broke this out into a separate thread..

Edited by Buckeye623 09-03-2015 16:01