So, the attributes that develop the most for each player depend on his player type. All attributes are sorted into five categories (for skaters, Scoring, Skating, Defense & Skills, Mental, and Physical), and the ten "training points" (more for Veteran/Elite/Superstar players) are allocated based on player type, e.g. the Playmaker type gets 1 Scoring, 2 Skating, 3 Defense & Skills, 3 Mental, and 1 Physical.
The game lets you edit a player's attributes and type as much as you like, so you could just cheese the ratings if you were so inclined, but if you go to your roster and select a player, there's an option to change his player type without entering the Edit Player menu at all. Which makes me wonder, is taking advantage of this the manner in which the devs intended for players to develop prospects in Franchise?
For example, I did a sort of dispersal draft with the Isles, replaced them with the created Hartford Seals—Whalers logo wasn't available, sadly—and did an expansion draft with VGK/SEA rules (lots of fun, btw!) One of my D-men is Tom Preissing, a promising offensive D-man with good shooting and skating, but average puck skills and mental attributes, and downright bad physical attributes. Leaving him as an OFD would help with the Defense & Puck Skills (4 points) but it also focuses on shooting (3 points), which is redundant for him, while it would neglect his Mental attribs (1 point) and especially the Physical skills he sorely needs (0 points).
Changing his player type to DEF, despite the fact that he's not at all a defensive D-man, would help him become a much more well-rounded player. It would (I assume) also help with line chemistry, since I have him paired with Chris Campoli, a young OFD.
My question is, would this be cheesing the system, or is it the intended mechanic for player progression, since you can't manually allocate those ten training points, and the game actually gives you the option to change each player's type—and therefore their training regimen—without actually editing the player?
Leaving each player to their assigned type wouldn't address their weaknesses in most cases, which is problematic because young players generally have poor Mental attribs across the board, and young goalies have poor Durability & Endurance. Butterfly & Positioning goalies only get 1 training point in those Physical stats, whereas Reflex goalies get 3, so it almost seems a necessity to temporarily convert goalie prospects to Reflex goalies for a while to get their Endurance high enough to be starters.
The game lets you edit a player's attributes and type as much as you like, so you could just cheese the ratings if you were so inclined, but if you go to your roster and select a player, there's an option to change his player type without entering the Edit Player menu at all. Which makes me wonder, is taking advantage of this the manner in which the devs intended for players to develop prospects in Franchise?
For example, I did a sort of dispersal draft with the Isles, replaced them with the created Hartford Seals—Whalers logo wasn't available, sadly—and did an expansion draft with VGK/SEA rules (lots of fun, btw!) One of my D-men is Tom Preissing, a promising offensive D-man with good shooting and skating, but average puck skills and mental attributes, and downright bad physical attributes. Leaving him as an OFD would help with the Defense & Puck Skills (4 points) but it also focuses on shooting (3 points), which is redundant for him, while it would neglect his Mental attribs (1 point) and especially the Physical skills he sorely needs (0 points).
Changing his player type to DEF, despite the fact that he's not at all a defensive D-man, would help him become a much more well-rounded player. It would (I assume) also help with line chemistry, since I have him paired with Chris Campoli, a young OFD.
My question is, would this be cheesing the system, or is it the intended mechanic for player progression, since you can't manually allocate those ten training points, and the game actually gives you the option to change each player's type—and therefore their training regimen—without actually editing the player?
Leaving each player to their assigned type wouldn't address their weaknesses in most cases, which is problematic because young players generally have poor Mental attribs across the board, and young goalies have poor Durability & Endurance. Butterfly & Positioning goalies only get 1 training point in those Physical stats, whereas Reflex goalies get 3, so it almost seems a necessity to temporarily convert goalie prospects to Reflex goalies for a while to get their Endurance high enough to be starters.
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