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Training makes a player worse?
Here's another head scratcher... last update Mustafa Tulun lost 14 skill points but his overall rating remained the same. This update he improved seven of his skills by one point apiece, yet his rating went down by one.

Yes I'm aware that skills and skill increases are fractional, so a 'decrease by one' might only mean a change of 0.1 - but how do several increases add up to an overall net loss?

- Did any attributes decrease?

- What training was he set to on at the last update?

No attributes decreased this update, and he was doing* a mix of attacking set-pieces, 5-a-side, and long-range passing.

*I think, he's on a schedule and you know how the days don't quite line up with the actual days

I don't use customised training schedules much but yes, I agree. When I have tried them, I noticed they do seem to be a day out.

I think it's because in the past, the update was at 3am, then it got moved to 8pm. My guess is that the update got moved earlier, for example, from Tuesday 3am, to Monday at 8pm. So what was previously the Tuesday training at 3am, is now the Monday 8pm training, so Tuesday schedule gets done on Mondays. The code was not adjusted to reflect this.

Does your schedule for the next update have a lot of resting?

It's still strange though, if a player's overall rating decreased when no attributes decreased.

He had a full day of rest on Monday night, then the three routines as I said yesterday. This update he had weight training, sprints, and rest. Concentration went up by one, as did overall rating one of life's little mysteries!