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!

[jac4121993]

What's generally the best time of the season to sell players?

I've been here a long time and never really paid much attention to it.

[wolfberries]

The season break.

[alf129]

Fairly new here guys and pretty sure I have posted before but cannot find it anywhere. Same as the discord - cannot find the previous newbie questions I asked so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction

Have a quick query for now about current players you have in the squad. I have already done a little bit of business on the TL and so I am left with players that are surplus to my requirements. I have tried putting them on transfer list at a cost of $1000 each time and they do not sell. Is there any penalty if I just "retire" them

Thanks

[boscorp]

Fairly new here guys and pretty sure I have posted before but cannot find it anywhere. Same as the discord - cannot find the previous newbie questions I asked so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction

Have a quick query for now about current players you have in the squad. I have already done a little bit of business on the TL and so I am left with players that are surplus to my requirements. I have tried putting them on transfer list at a cost of $1000 each time and they do not sell. Is there any penalty if I just "retire" them

Thanks

No penalty for firing them. Make sure your squad doesn't get too small though. You probably want to have some extra players for the MKMC games at the start of each season. If you have the minimum squad you might have problems with fatigue as the season progresses.