Subject: Mystery of assistants trainers ..

you will surelely see the difference;)

you mean in saturdays? ;p

also but not only...:P

i think i should hire 15 good assistants and see what happens in 5 weeks...

maybe their total sum can add up to 17 (i.e unearthly +.099999)

but if its higher then "training is lost"

i have 4 assistants there 2 weeks ago (i bought one on a monday and there was no point firing one i already had until training on thursday i figured)

i got 5 general pops that week and 3 normal or something... so training was not lost..

i dont see a problem with 4.. does anyone know anybody with loads of assistants>?

theres also an intersting calculation on the end of the first page there for influence of assistants on main skill
personally i had no assistants for a few weeks at one stage in my training and saw no loss on what i was mainly training..general 4 week pops, or whatever was expected..
i did get a few general pops in the negative direction though..especially stamina.. so they do have an influence on general pops..im sure of that
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so dont forget to inform us what did you notice after hiring those 15 assistans;P I am also very curious how does it work

me too;))

if you have more than 3 assistants, there is some chance of losing training, but i would say it is not so high, with 4 assistants definitely not above 50%
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I wonder if it is worth paying 40 000 - 50 000 euros (or whatever) a week for a 3rd magical assisstant, if you only benefit 2 or maybe 3 extra "random" pops per season

thesame thinkingas mine.. i alsodon get it why isneed to spend so many money for 2-4 random pops:)

top teams get more than 2-4 general pops with that value of assistants in my opinion ;)

I meant with the 3 magical assistants, opposed to 2 magical assistants

in relation to assistants, im going to invest in a few good coaches on saturday when i should get some money, so that their total combined skills add up to just below 48 points total.
i currently have 29 points, so im going to buy 4 more 5 point coaches i think..

will write back to inform all of how it turns out :)

Bit foolish having 2 magical assistants really

most people would consider that about as effective as 3 excellents but vastly more expensive.

Conversely, going up to 3 magicals will actually have a large effect

well, i have magical/magical/unearthly assistants (main coach unearthly in all skills)

my player Dario Torres popped 1 full random pop (from solid to vg) in the period of 17/04/2008 - 08/01/2009, that means he took around 38 weeks to full random pop in defending from solid to vg,
i think that training took place while he was 21-23 yo, he has a telent of 3.5~ (i guess)

and he might have had some injuries, i dont remember,
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with that talent, i would expect it would take 4 weeks normally.. so that means, with unearthly assistants its probably around 10 times less effective than normal training...

with 20 players training (approx since you have friendlies also), and 8 skills each though, thats a lot of pops ;)

until recently I had incredible/brill/brill assistants

a 20 year old popped from solid to VG in tech in 33 random weeks

previously (when 17 and 18) he had popped to good in 2 weeks and solid in 1 + 10 random (so that 33 weeks was of pure random training for precisely a full level)

I think 1/10 effective is not a bad rough estimate.

I don't think that upgrading to 3x magical would have shaved much off - 2 weeks perhaps. I have changed the incredible assistant for a magical so in a year I may have a better idea of effect