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Hey everybody,

I'm new here and have some questions and thoughts regarding skill+training.

What does driving exactly does ingame? Do I need it, if I have great passers? How high should driving be compared to other (offensive) skills?

I often read and heard I should push driving(Forwards) first, regarding synergy effects etc.

But young players 19/20 on the transfer list with high driving seem to be worth nothing...

So where is the truth here? Thanks for your opinions.

Regards, Ted

this thread (144856.28) has the general description for what driving does. what were the specific skill levels for the trainees that you saw going for cheap? potential can lower their value due to a lower ceiling.

Driving means the ability to shake off the defender and get your shot when having the ball. At least it's believed to be this way.

Driving trains very quickly, paired with handling (1 on 1 training triggers both of them), so you can see a great bump in player's skills sum but he is garbage still. And you still have to train key skills, such as defence and shooting, which grows slower.

There are even "broken down" players on the market. I mean their DR and HA are too overgrown and that pretty bumps their salary, and it'd take seasons of training for them to become useful.

Players with high driving and handling only are total garbage. However, the most usual advice here is "start by training 1 on 1" then train other skills. This might seem odd but because of the elastic effect, skills which are low train faster until they level with the higher skills. So if you train a lot of 1 on 1, when you train pressure OD pops way faster than it would normally, since elastic effect gives it a boost.

But... you kinda "lose" a lot of prime training time raising driving and handling, which are secondaries... so the question is: in the end does it compensate? isn't it better to train OD when the player is 18yo and trains fast? handling and driving eat cap space and raise salaries, is it worthy in the end? i'm not really sure if this is good advice but ok... imho the best amount of driving and handling you must target is the highest amount that will not consume too much of training time, cap space and salary.

Last edited by Bernspin at 09/22/2020 04:48:04