Very, very good playmaking training!!! A first for the Pittbulls as 4 players popped in playmaking, 2 of them to excellent. WOOT!!! Form changes netted at zero, so I'm not complaining...
form (players): +6 / -6 for a net change of zero
form (levels): +6 / -6 for a net change of zero
-- Starters: +4 / -3
-- Backups: +2 / -3
** WOOT: Langston, the starting solid keeper, increased his form to passable, after spending about 3 weeks in inadequate form and two starting inner mids (Gortemaker & Riser) are now in excellent form while a third one (Rossten) improved his form back to solid, a one week stint at passable form.
** BLEH: God has lost another level of form, back down to weak and this is disheartening. Probably a high weak, since he only lost 7k in value and a full level of form is usually closer to 25k (he is valued 279k so form levels have big values). Hellsjö, starting passable defender w/inadequate experience) lost some more form, from passable to inadequate, but this won't be seen on the starting lineup as Bohin (passable defender w/passable experience) kept his passable form and will take his place. Lewblom, solid winger w/passable passing, already in poor form, dropped to wretched form. He's not getting any closer to being back to the starting lineup and with Peltola injured in our most recent frienldy, this means we will keep on playing Boom (solid winger w/passable defending) at winger instead of wingback for a while...
starter form:
2 excellent
2 solid
6 passable
1 weak
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Average starter form: 6.4 or low passable (barely up from 6.3 a week ago)
value: +119k / -19k for +100k
** Another nice week in terms of value increase. The nicest and most welcome increase went to my starting keeper, Scott Langston. After seeing him losing a little value every week for quite some time, eventually dropping in form to inadequate, he gained a mere 2k last week and a nice 25k, back in passable form, this week. Another nice value increase happened to Diego Sanchez (excellent playmaker) who saw his value increase 23k, without a form change. Probably some form increase that left him within the same level, but from a low weak to a high weak in form...
playmaking: 4 pops this week!!!! My oldest inner mid, Stefan Rasmussen, 23, popped to excellent playmaking. I kept him around for a while now maybe only because I bought him as a passable playmaker with solid stamina in about my second week of playing HT. I may very well put him on the market and go looking for a cheap solid 17yo. Second pop, second pop to excellent playmaking, goes to Patrik Kvarning, whom I bought as a 17yo passable playmaker late last season. He'll stay on the program for now. Third pop went to my future all-around inner mid, Hubert Gortemaker, 18yo now solid playmaker w/inadequates in both passing and defending. In a matter of three weeks he went from getting his first 2.5 stars game to his first 3 stars game. Finally, the last pop goes to my pet project, Thomas Gröönborn, 19yo now passable playmaker, but w/solid passing & inadequate defending. I will keep on training him even though 19 may not be the best age to do so. He will never be a master at ball control but he will certainly bring some offense to the starting lineup one day. Weird thing is he is already valued at 199k, even though he's only a passable playmaker and only has inadequate stamina. I guess those secondaries of him may be a bit high, which is nice :)
My current trainees are:
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player Age value playmaking stamina passing defending WKIM WKWG TOTAL TOGO
Rossten 20 113k solid formidable inadequate wretched 5 0 5 6
Rasmussen 23 103k excellent excellent poor poor 11 1 11.5 0
Riser 18 118k solid excellent poor inadequate 6 0 6 3
Kvarning 18 115k excellent passable poor weak 7 2 8 0
Sánchez 19 150k excellent inadequate weak weak 1 0 1 9
Gröönborn 19 199k passable inadequate solid inadequate 5 0 5 0
Gortemaker 18 128k solid solid inadequate inadequate 8 0 8 0
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WKIM is the number of weeks played at inner mid since last playmaking pop (100% training)
WKWG is the number of weeks played at winger since last playmaking pop (50% training)
TOTAL is the total number of weeks of training received
TOGO is the approximative number of weeks of training the player still needs to pop in playmaking, based on the player's age, his TOTAL of weeks trained already and the fact I have a passable coach. (zero if player popped this week)
Of all the pops this week, Rasmussen is the one that really took me by surprise. A 17yo should pop in 7 weeks with a solid coach. Make that figure 8 weeks since I have a passable coach. Based on that, a 18yo takes 9 weeks, a 19yo is 10 weeks, ..., and Rasmussen at an advanced age of 23, should be expected to take 14 weeks to pop a level, maybe 13 or 13.5 if you take into account the fact half of his is training happened when he was 22, but still should be close to that. He popped after 11.5 week of training, nice! Also, both my 18 year olds (Kvarning & Gortemaker) both popped after 8 while they were expected to pop after 9 weeks, both one week ahead of time. This whole "popping ahead of expected time" thing leads me to believe that maybe my passable coach is a high passable and that I will keep him for as long as I won't be able to afford a solid/solid one :)
The four pops this week bring the stable of inner mid from 1 excellent, 4 solids, 1 passable, 1 inadequate to 3 excellents, 3 solids, 1 passable, niiiice!!! :)
FM