How do you guys help players improve their speed or acceleration? Especially for players you draft who have sometimes quite bad skating. I drafted a player in my last play (havent played few months now tbh) but he had bad skating (both under 10), but his potential was around 150 or 160. Was only using my own picks in that save and no trades so was excited to get a player like that in one of early drafts that are usually horrible since there are no regens yet. Picked him around 15-20th spot hoping he'd be a a good pick but i couldn't improve his skating at all even by 1 point. Same with a defenceman (Alex Grant in 2007 draft) couldn't get him to improve speed or acceleration by even 1 point no matter what kind of training and coaches i tried. Any advice on this?
Hm, i think there is a flaw in the game. My prospects which has a good attribute in strength, tends to develop that strength even though i train them on all other areas.
Example: Martin marincin had about 10 in skating (acc,speed) i wanted him to improve that. So i always had him on skating intense in the off-season, even though i focused on skating he never improved. But went from 14 strength to 17 in 2 years.
Same way with Alex Nylander, had 7 strength and about 12-13 in skating. Try to focus him to work on his strength, but after 3 years pro, he has 18 skating, and just turned 9 in strength.
It is like the weight increase for younger players doesnt affect their strength. Mitch marner went from 180cm/72kg to 180 cm/92kg. Strength? 8->9.
It would be awesome if you could interact with your players and tell them to put on weight to become stronger resp. lose some weight to gain footspeed. But as in real life it should depend on other attributes, like work rate, professionalism and natural fitness. Let say a natural fitness 20. Should definitely get good results because his natural physique is so good.
And there could also be a risk that the workout fails. Like "Jonas Brodin put on 10 kg, but didn't gain any noticeable strength, and also lost some footspeed/agility"