Do backroom staff have any limits to their work capacity?

[thbroman]

Here's a situation that one encounters once in a while:

At the moment my club -- Tranmere Rovers, just promoted to the Premier League -- has an outstanding General Manager who, among other things, has very high ratings for judging staff ability and negotiating. In this circumstance it only makes sense to use him to hire staff for my U-18 and U-23 teams and save money on a Technical Director, right? My GM also has excellent player-spotting skills, so I send him out on scouting runs to make the final call on potential players to be signed as well.

So the obvious question here is, does the guy ever get tired? He certainly shows no signs of slowing down at a little club like Tranmere, but what if I were in charge of Real Madrid or another giant organization? Would the stress show up there?

[FrazT]

Probably nobody will know for sure but here is my take:

Tired - probably not.  Stressed - probably not

However look at what happens to coach effectiveness, as noted in their start ratings, when you add another task to their assignments in training.  It will go down from say 4 starts to 3.5 say, so his overall effectiveness in the task decreases when you add another task.

I would therefore suggest that his overall ability in each of his functions will drop a little in each of them if you spread him thinly over multiple tasks.

[Mars_Blackmon]

11 hours ago, thbroman said:

Here's a situation that one encounters once in a while:

At the moment my club -- Tranmere Rovers, just promoted to the Premier League -- has an outstanding General Manager who, among other things, has very high ratings for judging staff ability and negotiating. In this circumstance it only makes sense to use him to hire staff for my U-18 and U-23 teams and save money on a Technical Director, right? My GM also has excellent player-spotting skills, so I send him out on scouting runs to make the final call on potential players to be signed as well.

So the obvious question here is, does the guy ever get tired? He certainly shows no signs of slowing down at a little club like Tranmere, but what if I were in charge of Real Madrid or another giant organization? Would the stress show up there?

Probably not but it would be a great addition for those who like to delegate tasks to play “realistic”

[thbroman]

Thanks for the help. I wasn't asking about coaches, for whom the workload does seem to affect their ability to carry out their jobs.

I agree that if there are no limits to the number of tasks you can assign your GM, there ought to be. A good GM makes the Technical Director and Loan Manager completely superfluous.

[Mars_Blackmon]

1 hour ago, thbroman said:

Thanks for the help. I wasn't asking about coaches, for whom the workload does seem to affect their ability to carry out their jobs.

I agree that if there are no limits to the number of tasks you can assign your GM, there ought to be. A good GM makes the Technical Director and Loan Manager completely superfluous.

You should add this to the suggestion section