Category Changes
Though a player’s category will almost never change, and a Power player will remain a tough, physical player throughout his entire career, it is possible to coach a player in parts of the game he might be lacking. In doing this, you are basically giving the skilful players a new diet and training to build up their stamina, while preparing special exercises to improve the touch and flair of the less delicate players.
Eventually, after enough training, the player will gain the coveted Power/Skill [P/S] status. To do this you must expend SP’s on P/S Training, which will not have any immediate benefits as regards skill levels, but will begin to increase his P/S training level. Once this level reaches 100%, he will become a P/S player, and will compete as such in his next game. The expenditure required for this will be around 10 SP’s or so for a 18-2 APP outfield player, with higher-level, older players taking a little more effort, considerably so for specialist multi-purpose players. It might prove very difficult to shape a very young or very old player, while a mature player is more likely to respond more quickly to the training. As this training is done over a period of time, it cannot be combined with other sorts of qualification, such as playing a player Out-Of-Position.
A player can be EITHER qualifying as a UT [playing OOP in games], or being P/S trained, not both. Once P/S training begins, all Out of Position [OOP] qualification games are set to zero and no further OOP qualification can be undertaken. If it is, and a player is played OOP once more, he will lose all benefits from his P/S training, and in the future such training will begin again at zero as you can only do one or the other to the same player each session, NOT BOTH!
P/S coaching can be done in units of one or two SP’s per player, per turn. Any player can benefit from it, other than players who are already P/S category, unqualified players, or Goalkeepers. Please ensure that it is clear whether you are using SP’s to coach performance levels, or whether they are to be applied to P/S training.
Note; P/S training, unlike OOP qualification, can be carried over from one season to the next.
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