Quick Questions V4

[wolfberries]

Does having a Lavish academy with 28-31 year old players have any benefits? Does it help prevent plops / skill drops?
Trying to get a gauge on how high rating senior teams operate

Skills don't start declining till the player turns 30, and then all skills start to decline. You won't prevent plops but you can slow some of the decline
down through your choice of training.

I’m wondering though if academy level has any impact in preventing skill drops, not so much choice of training.
Or is a skill drop just a random event irrelevant to academy?

The higher the academy the better players improve with training, so it will help to slow down the plops that you train the skills in.

[JMac24]

Skills don't start declining till the player turns 30, and then all skills start to decline. You won't prevent plops but you can slow some of the decline
down through your choice of training.

I’m wondering though if academy level has any impact in preventing skill drops, not so much choice of training.
Or is a skill drop just a random event irrelevant to academy?

The higher the academy the better players improve with training, so it will help to slow down the plops that you train the skills in.

So plops aren’t a random event but instead are when a skill lowers below its baseline?

[wolfberries]

So plops aren’t a random event but instead are when a skill lowers below its baseline?

That is correct, they used to be random but that changed a few seasons ago.

[GA-James018]

There is still a minor random element but yes, now you can roughly track skill declines to the point where you'll probably be no more than a week off either way predicting when the player will plop.

Prior to a change that was made a few seasons ago, players aged 30 and over would randomly drop by significant amounts at a time (about half a level depending on age, doubled for endurance) but that is no longer the case.

[JMac24]

There is still a minor random element but yes, now you can roughly track skill declines to the point where you'll probably be no more than a week off either way predicting when the player will plop.

Prior to a change that was made a few seasons ago, players aged 30 and over would randomly drop by significant amounts at a time (about half a level depending on age, doubled for endurance) but that is no longer the case.

Good to know, thanks to everyone that commented!