CM 99 - 00 veteran needs help getting his groove back.

[Rennelz]

Complete noob question:

I'm just after getting into FM - I've started with 2012, on a friends reccommendation. The last time I played a footy management sim it was CM 99-00 - so please forgive me if my question relating to something that has been a part of the series for a while now. I've kinda got my head around how much data there actually is in the game, and I'm starting to really appreciate the mechanics of the game. There's just one thing that's bothering me:

I'm curious about what the light blue and dark blue bar charts in the Training (Overview Tab) section of FM2012 represent. I've scoured the net for an explanation, to no avail. I see that the light blue bars correspond to the ammount of players on light training in the corresponding category, and the same for the dark blue ones - I just fail to see how it all corresponds to workload/effictiveness. Is this valuable information I'm missing out on. Unless I'm missing something it's either very complex or really arbitrary. All I'm left with is my instinctive, uncontrollable dissemination of the meaning of colours. The vagueness is driving me nuts!

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachments/football-manager-2012-discussion/248006d1337787407-football-manager-2012-liverpool-thread-training.jpg

Anyway, if anyone can shed any light on this gobbledy goop I'd really appreciate it - poorly explained graphs are my nightmare. Also, apologies if this is in the wrong thread.

Cheers.

[blackdevil]

I may be wrong, but I think it references the number of players who are on light, medium & heavy schedules for that category.

As far as I know it's just an indicator so you can see who's doing what and where you may want to add extra coaches to cover the workload. But the workload in the screenshot shows this is already covered.

[Gman]

If memory serves me right it is not the workload of the players but the coaches, i.e. if it reaches medium or heavy you need to assign more coaches to that category.