Important Matches/Consistency Improvement

[chad2192]

Been looking everywhere, is there a definitive answer on whether important matches/consistency can be improved? how to improve, and by how much it can change?

[Sharkn20]

I have been having some improvement in consistency by giving young players time in the development leagues, where they can rack up good ratings and finning them every time they do 6.4 / 6.3 / 6.2... it takes time but is worth it.

Can't say older players improve the same as I don't sign anyone inconsistent or dreads bad matches.

[lemeuresnew]

have had some experience with mentoring. and you get messages telling you when it happens that way, so you dont necessarily have to keep checking profile 

 

 

[rsihn]

22 hours ago, chad2192 said:

Been looking everywhere, is there a definitive answer on whether important matches/consistency can be improved? how to improve, and by how much it can change?

Yes, they can both improve.  They can also drop though it has been extraordinarily rare occurrence. 

 

I've been doing long term academy challenge type saves for awhile now and back on FM19, I started using the editor to save the hidden stats to how they change.....and I've made it a habit ever since.  When the players come through the intake, I use the in-game notes system to document everything (I used to use a separate spreadsheet) and then update the information whenever I get an email or about every 6 months if no email comes.  

 

The results of this are that consistency and big matches can change very very slowly over a player's career.  Consistency is far more likely to improve than big matches.  About 75% of my players got a 1-2 improvement over their career with about 20% of the remaining players getting 3 points and the last 5% got 4 points.  Nobody got more than 4 points.  There doesn't seem to be any age related limitation to consistency improving as you can still see improvements right up until the end of their career.  The extraordinarily rare drops in consistency occurred to players who had extremely high ratings in the stat and I guess their performances weren't living up to the stat for some reason.  I want to point out again how extremely rare it is to see a drop, as it has only happened to 3 players out of all my saves.  It was so rare that the first time it happened, I started to wonder if I had entered the data wrong the previous time.  

 

Big matches is much much tougher to improve.  About 75% of my players never saw any change in the stat over their careers.  Of the remaining 25%, about 20% saw a 1 point improvement over their entire career and the last 5% got 2 points.  Nobody has gotten more than 2 points.   I've never seen big matches drop.