Looking for tips on Player Training for Franchise

[Wetfred]

Do I leave it on Auto? How often and when do you use training? Any suggestions would help.

[HypoLuxa13]

Re: Looking for tips on Player Training for Franchise

Do I leave it on Auto? How often and when do you use training? Any suggestions would help.

I only leave AUTO training on for low level minor league guys that need work in all areas. For anyone else, I manually set training on areas they need work the most. For example, I started a test Diamondback's franchise. Auto training had Yasmany Thomas set to baserunning drills. Well he is like a 50 speed and Stealing was only at 10 or something, so why bother with this?? Just an example of how Auto training wastes effort in many cases.

Generally I set training on important areas and leave it for a couple months at a time. Or switch back and forth between a couple key skill sets every other month. So basically I'm focusing a player's training on just 2-3 skill sets per season. Age and Potential will factor in to their progression or regression in all areas. If a young minor league player with a lot of potential gains 2-3 points in all categories just due to normal progression, he may see 5-6 points in the areas you trained him in manually, if you focus on just a couple areas for the whole season. Likewise, if an older player starts to regress by a couple points in all categories naturally, if you focus his training on a couple skill sets, he may stay stable or even gain a point.

Just my experience, other folks will probably advise differently.

[kooch66]

Re: Looking for tips on Player Training for Franchise

Don't leave it on auto, the computer will train too much base running and other nonsense.

Ideally you'd take the time to see what everyone needs most, but that could take ages. What I do is go through by position, and all of my MLB players and high rated/high potential minor leaguers I set based on their needs. Then to save time for all the minor leaguers with C or lower potential/low ratings I don't pay attention to what they need most, I just make sure to set it to something useful, like contact or power or for a pitcher the /9 stuff. That way my top guys are getting better at what I want them to be and everyone else is at least doing something primary and not working on base running all year.