Description: Training is the main method to improve your players and team. Each day you may train a player a certain number of times.
Topics
Training Screen
Training Multiple Players
Maximum Training's Per Day
Injured Players
Results
Training Success and Failure
Position Training
Position Training Costs
Position Training Restrictions
Related Topics
Training Screen: When you first click on training and enter the training screen, you see a table. The player names (with other information) are down the left side of the table. The skills are across the top of the table and each represent a column in the table. Most of the relevant player screen information is included here. In the left most column, which starts with the player name, owners can see (in order):
Name - The name of the player
Overall Potential - A colored +, * or -.
Overall Skill Potential Gap - A colored H, M, or L.
Age - The number of years old the player is.
Position - The position(s) the player plays.
Injury Days - The number of days a player is injured for. An injured player is not allowed to be trained.
On the second line:
Length of Current Contract - The number of years remaining (after this one) in a player's contract.
Salary Per Season of Current Contract - The amount of money (per season) that the player makes.
Contract Satisfaction - A colored letter between A and F. It is the current contract satisfaction of the player.
Under each skill there are a number of items for each player. When you first come into the training screen you will see, under each skill, the following fields (in order):
Skill Level - This is the numerical representation of the number of baseballs a player has in the player screen for that skill. For example, if someone had two and a half baseballs in contact on the player screen, you would see a 2.5 here.
Attribute Potential Gap - This is an optional field. If you employ a trainer, and his evaluation strength is in this skill, you will see a colored letter, H, M or L.
Checkboxes - A number of checkboxes equal to the number of times you can still train a player that day. Checking one or both of the boxes and clicking on the Train button will train all of the players checked in those skills. Checking more than the maximum number of trainings the player has less will result in the first X skill(s) being trained (where X is the number of trainings the player has left).
On the second line:
Cost - The cost to train the next point of that skill. Please note that if you choose to train two or more points, and the price changes between training's, you will be charged the higher (new) rate for that point of training.
There is a key at the bottom of the training screen that helps you to decipher many of these fields.
Training Multiple Players: The training screen allows a team to train as many players as they can (or want to) at once. This saves time and effort when dealing with a large number of training's each day. As mentioned in the Training Screen section an owner may check multiple boxes under multiple players. In fact, a team could train every player at once. To train multiple players, choose a player to train, check the boxes of the skills you wish to train. Remember if a team wants to train a skill twice, they have to check both boxes. The same applies for additional training's. It is important to note that a team may only train a player the number of times that he has boxes under ONE skill. For example, a player has two check boxes under each skill. The team may train that player twice. The training may be one in contact and one in defense, two in shooting or any other combination of two training's. If an owner, however, checks 5 boxes for that one player, only the first two from left to right will be honored. In other words, if a team checks two contact boxes, one defense box, and two injury boxes, only the two contact points will be trained. Since each player is allowed two training's, although the two contact's were trained on the first player, the second player on the roster would have two training's left.
Maximum Training's Per Day: The maximum number of player training's per day is league specific. The exact number, therefore, may vary from league to league. The default in most leagues is two. Players in most leagues may be trained twice per day (a day is the time from events (or games) one day to events (or games) the other - since Simgalaxy is an international site, 12 midnight is not the time where the game changes to a new day). Once you have trained a player twice, he will no longer have the checkboxes available.
Injured Players: Injured players may not be trained. They are resting from their injuries and are not working out with the team to improve their skills. Any player who is injured will not have the checkboxes available.
Results: Every time a player is trained they either increase in skill (success) or they stay the same (failure). The owner of the team is not always aware of exactly what happened. There are three letter results that an owner will get immediately after training players, a color coded S, F or question mark (please remember that these letters are only available immediately after an owner clicks on "Train" and returns to the training screen. Every skill that was trained should display one of these three letters. An S means that there was a success, the staff realized it, and the player definitely went up in skill. An F means that the staff is sure that they didn't notice an improvement in the player's skill. A question mark means that the staff isn't sure if the player went up or not in skill. When a team gets a question mark, that means something happened, but, the staff just doesn't know what it is. Normally, teams have a 25% chance of realizing that there was an success or failure. So, you can assume that you will see an S or an F roughly 25% of the time. The rest of the time you are going to get a question mark. If a team employs a trainer, that realization rate goes up to 40%, so, they will see an S or an F roughly 40% of the time if they have a trainer and the question mark about 60% of the time. This has absolutely no bearing on success or failure rates, it is only the display of the results.
Training Success and Failure: As a player becomes more and more skilled, they are able to learn less and less when they are trained. At first, when they are poor in a skill, training often results in successes (provided they have enough potential to be successful). This success rate decreases as the player gets better. When a player is at or below 1.5 baseballs in skill, they have roughly a 70% chance to increase in skill when trained. When that same player gets to the 3.5-4.0 baseball level or higher, they have about a 30% chance to succeed in training. Between those two levels, players will steadily decrease in success rates. Of course these percentages are effected by various outside forces, including trainers.
Position Training: Once in every position player's career, he may be trained to play one additional position (This applies to position players only, not to pitchers). With the exception of the Pitcher position, any player may be trained to play any other position for a price. When a player is trained at a position, he plays there with no penalties (exactly like if he had always been able to play that position). Since a player may only be trained to play an additional position once in his entire career, there is a field (displayed on the player information screen) that tells all owners if the player has already used his training in his career. This field is labeled, "Pos. Training Avail". This field will read "Yes" if the player has not yet been trained at an additional position and "No" if he has already been trained once in his career. This is useful knowledge when planning for the future of a player on your team.
Position Training Costs: Depending on what position(s) the player currently plays, the cost of training him at various new positions will vary. This cost will also change as your franchise becomes more and more successful, both in talent level and in economic terms. The exact costs will be calculated at the time of training, but, will be displayed to you so you may make a final decision. Costs decrease in the off-season as teams may work with a player during that time to teach them a new position. Although the Franchise Baseball off-season is condensed, it is still assumed to contain the off-season and spring training, where players often learn new positions. That is the reason for the off-season cost decrease.
Position Training Restrictions: There are a few restrictions when training players at different positions. First, as mentioned above, a player may only be trained once in his career to play an additional position. Once a player has been trained at an additional position, he may never be trained at a position again, no matter how many teams he plays on or how long he stays in the leauge. Second, teams may only train a certain number of players per season at a new position. Subscribed users can train two players per season at a new position. Non-subscribers may only train one player per season at an additional position. Once a team trains the maximum number of players at new positions, they are done for the season and must wait until the end of the season to begin training more players.
