Help Relationship between player attributes and hidden ca and pa

[Elliott]

Apologies if making a new topic isn't the right thing to do, but i couldn't see anything relevant except something from 5 years ago.

I've always found no success in developing young players. Aside from the intensive training I mean. So a young player is promoted and perhaps has 3 stars by coach for potential - could make a squad player. But I never see an attribute increase, whether they sit in the reserves on intensive training, or they go out on loan and play. To be honest I haven't really played young players who are clearly worse than the alternatives because I figure the attributes show the level of ability demonstrated in training and I generally want to pick my strongest team - but maybe this approach needs to be changed.

I saw on an old article linked in the beginner's guide thread and example of how Julian Draxler developed in different scenarios. In both reserves and loan scenarios, the stats increased, but in one the underlying ca increased and the other didn't. So I'm finding that rather confusing.

How can we look at a player without an editor to work out if they are improving? Are their attributes always going to stay broadly the same? As that seems to be my experience outside of intensive training.

[FoxD]

In general the best way to improve a player is by playing him in matches. The best way to do this is put them on the bench and bring them on later in a game perhaps when you have a good lead. You could also use them in games against smaller teams or in cup matches as well to give them more experience.

[Ashez]

This is now shown by the experience bar from the new training, matches played add to the bar and at level up their stats will likely improve. Playing them is 100% vital and more important than training. 

[FoxD]

3 minutes ago, Ashez said:

This is now shown by the experience bar from the new training, matches played add to the bar and at level up their stats will likely improve. Playing them is 100% vital and more important than training. 

This is posted in the FMM18 forum so I guess he is playing that version but the point still remains of course.

 

[Ashez]

1 hour ago, Foxy said:

This is posted in the FMM18 forum so I guess he is playing that version but the point still remains of course.

 

Hadn't noticed that 😂

But yeah the point still stands as it's the same, we can now just see the progress bar while it happened in the back ground previously for anyone wondering. 

[Elliott]

Thanks for your input. Yes I am playing fmm18 rather than 19.

I guess maybe i should try a career where I avoid changing the training just to see what happens. I don't see improvement from a lot of young players but clearly I need to use them more!