My Best Example of re-training a player position - UPDATED

[DaddyTorgo]

Basically what happened is that I had gone out and acquired a 19 y/o D/WB L (Knudsen) who i thought would be a potential stud for cheap. Then the opportunity dropped into my lap to acquire a 20 y/o D/WB L (Rada) who was already a wonderkid. Well I couldn't pass that up, so I bought him. Lo and behold, by the time he joins the team, the first kid has his birthday and becomes a wonderkid too.

So I have 2 D/WB L who are wonderkids. WTF am I going to do with that, short of playing an unbalanced formation with a DL, DC, DC, DR, WBL, MC, MC, MR, ST, ST (which I did try a bit and which worked out okay actually just fyi in case anyone wants to do it themselves).

I decide to take the guy with slightly better offensive traits (barely better on one or two things) and retrain him (Rada). But I can't retrain him as a ML because I already have a 21 y/o former-wonderkid at ML who has the position locked-up. And I can't retrain him as a DR because I have Sergio Ramos at DR and a solid kid in the pipeline behind him. And Ramos can't slide to DC because I have a wonderkid at DC along with Federico Fazio. Alas, I have no long-term MR to speak of. So I retrain him as a MR.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5264/radaqd6.jpg

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This has really been my most successful positional-retraining ever, and I just wanted to share. Something about my team that makes me :) in light of my inability to beat Fiorentina costing me a chance at a double or treble.

[adubroff]

So I have 2 D/WB L who are wonderkids. WTF am I going to do with that, short of playing an unbalanced formation with a DL, DC, DC, DR, WBL, MC, MC, MR, ST, ST (which I did try a bit and which worked out okay actually just fyi in case anyone wants to do it themselves).



I do this fairly frequently with little downside, although I do it with ML and AMR (I have one wing that is capable of AMR/MR, one that's capable of ML/AML, one that's just an ML and one that's just an AMR...sometimes the last two get matched up to play together and I just play them uneven. I think the mentalities keep this balanced for the most part, the players don't stay locked into X position for long.

[DaddyTorgo]

I do this fairly frequently with little downside, although I do it with ML and AMR (I have one wing that is capable of AMR/MR, one that's capable of ML/AML, one that's just an ML and one that's just an AMR...sometimes the last two get matched up to play together and I just play them uneven. I think the mentalities keep this balanced for the most part, the players don't stay locked into X position for long.

yeah i concur that this is likely the case. nice to know it works though, ya know?

[adubroff]

yeah i concur that this is likely the case. nice to know it works though, ya know?

It is, I was worried when I tried. I've even gone as far as to play just one wing at a couple points with limited downside. The mentality is a such a strong factor, I've forgotten to change mentality on one of my subs (like when I sub a DC for a forward late to protect a lead) and noticed it because the DC was hanging out up with the forwards :)