Must a player be given an individual training focus?

[Farina]

I'm wondering whether giving a player individual training means some training effort will be redirected from general to the focus you've set. Or does setting no focus mean you're wasting the opportunity the improve a player further beyond general training?

[edit] The question is essentially about how individual training affects total training workload.

[johnhughthom]

If you don't want to train a specific attribute, set him to train for a role, it will focus on the attributes important to that role.

[edgar555]

You don't have to set a focus but as you say you are wasting an opportunity to develop them further. Obviously as they get older this is less of an issue.

[SuperJackLester]

I set them all to train a specific role (e.g. my Goalie training on the Goalkeeper main stats) It seems to help. My wingers are benefiting from this method.

[Rashidi]

If you don't set one, then training is done automatically for his natural position.

[Farina]

You don't have to set a focus but as you say you are wasting an opportunity to develop them further. Obviously as they get older this is less of an issue.

If you don't set one, then training is done automatically for his natural position.

From this guide, I got the following:

All players will constantly train even without a focus, based on the general training you've set in the Team Training screen. Adding a focus -- either a specific attribute or a set of attributes based on a positional Player-Specific Role -- will increase the training workload of the player, making him more tired.

Well, that's 3 different theories.

[Rashidi]

A player has 100% total time for training. General Training and Match Preparation, affects how much time is left for him to focus on his own training. The more match prep you give a player the less time he has for his own training, the more general (or team) training he gets the less time he has for his own focus training. Think of his total time as one bar, his personal training sitting in the middle with general training and match preparation time on either end.

Furthermore, if a player is made to learn a new position, that affects his time too, it leaves 60% of time for him to focus on his own training and 40% of that time goes to learning his new position. If its a ppm then its 57% on his focus training and 43 on his ppm. You can adjust the intensity of this training to make it either, light average or heavy and that will all affect his overall load.

[Gazza88]

Under general training you can choose one of the options and it trains the player's in that focus.

For example if you defend from the front and look to attack on the counter, set general training to defensive and your attacking players to the individual role they will play in your tactics. You can also set your defensive players to their individual role to give them a boost.

If you play possession football then you set general training to ball control and set all players to their individual roles.

It is important to match players to the role they will play for you. There is not much point training a player to be a defensive midfielder - defend if you play ball winning midfielders or deep lying play makers in a CM role.

A lot of people go wrong by putting their team on ball control training and playing hit and hope. Or attacking general training and counter attacking football.

[Farina]

A player has 100% total time for training. General Training and Match Preparation, affects how much time is left for him to focus on his own training. The more match prep you give a player the less time he has for his own training, the more general (or team) training he gets the less time he has for his own focus training. Think of his total time as one bar, his personal training sitting in the middle with general training and match preparation time on either end.

Furthermore, if a player is made to learn a new position, that affects his time too, it leaves 60% of time for him to focus on his own training and 40% of that time goes to learning his new position. If its a ppm then its 57% on his focus training and 43 on his ppm. You can adjust the intensity of this training to make it either, light average or heavy and that will all affect his overall load.

What you are saying is that setting an individual focus takes training time away from general training, right? The total workload stays the same, only the subdivision changes. Whereas setting his individual training intensity does affect the training workload? So does that means setting individual intensity to light would mean a player's total workload is less than when not setting an individual training at all?

[Rashidi]

No what i am saying is that every player has a fixed amount of total training time a week. Giving a player focus training just uses the time he has left over from match prep training for his focus training. General training is "team training" and Focus training is "individual training". The amount of time he has for individual training varies based on how much match preparation time you have given a team. The more match prep time, the less time for training other areas. When you change his individual focus that affects the workload.

Focus training intensity just affects the load for training..ie time spent on focus, position, and ppm. And that affects workload. I am hoping this leads to an interesting discussion or you can take this to the tactics and training forum

[Falahk]

Under general training you can choose one of the options and it trains the player's in that focus.

For example if you defend from the front and look to attack on the counter, set general training to defensive and your attacking players to the individual role they will play in your tactics. You can also set your defensive players to their individual role to give them a boost.

If you play possession football then you set general training to ball control and set all players to their individual roles.

It is important to match players to the role they will play for you. There is not much point training a player to be a defensive midfielder - defend if you play ball winning midfielders or deep lying play makers in a CM role.

A lot of people go wrong by putting their team on ball control training and playing hit and hope. Or attacking general training and counter attacking football.

Tactical training is the one you want for that, since it focus on the mental attributes that are vital for such a style