Player development

📈 Players develop through three concurrent systems: daily training (attribute work scheduled by your coaching staff), weekly mentoring (senior players passing personality and habits to juniors), and match experience (game time accelerates development for under-23s and decelerates decline for over-30s). Every player has a hidden potential ceiling — generated at creation, never visible to you directly — that caps how far attributes can grow. Scout reports estimate potential as a star rating with a margin of error, narrowing as scouting level improves.

Training is configured at /game/training. The weekly plan sets the session type and the squad intensity (light, moderate or intense), and each player can be given an individual focus attribute — shooting, defending positioning, passing accuracy or physical conditioning, for example. High intensity grows attributes faster but spends more condition and raises injury risk. Older players cannot tolerate high intensity for long without breaking down. Daily training results are written to inbox digests once per week so you can track which players grew, regressed or got injured during the cycle.

Maximising growth

For under-21s: high-intensity training, primary focus on a single attribute (not two). Concentrated growth.

Pair them with a senior mentor (same position, high personality score). Weekly mentoring tick gives personality drift.

Give them 60-70% of available minutes — too few stalls growth, too many burns them out.

For prime-age 23-29: medium intensity, balanced focus. They are at their peak; you maintain, not grow.

For over-30s: low intensity, conditioning focus only. The goal is delaying decline, not growing attributes.

💡A scout report on a young academy player is the single best investment for development. It tells you which attribute has the most growth potential — focus training there instead of guessing.

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