Is it worth it to specify the specific skill for training when your coaches are low level, or is it best to keep it general so that you don't receive the -15% penalty for specific skill training?

And when if ever is it better to do specific skill training?

From my point of view, no focus is only worth when you are training physical skills or kicking skills.
In all other areas you normally don't need progress on all skills and its much more efficient to focus on the specific skill.

As said, it helps to have a supporter account for the physical skills.

unfocused on fitness until speed/strength cap, tactical i never focus or kicking.

everything else is focus driven.

DarkAddiction wrote: Is it worth it to specify the specific skill for training when your coaches are low level, or is it best to keep it general so that you don't receive the -15% penalty for specific skill training? And when if ever is it better to do specific skill training?

If your coaches are low level, as in 5 or less, I'd say keep it unfocused and get as many points as you can. Yes, you may cap a str or spd skill if you do this to fitness, but with no fitness center and low coaching skill, it would take too many weeks to successfully track a capped skill anyway. You might as well hope for the best and try to get as many points as you can.

Personally, I didn't worry too much about focusing until I had max coaching in that area and the training hall/fitness center to make it worthwhile. However, the 10% penalty you lose is not that much so it's probably not going to matter much anyway. As an example, a player with 20 teamwork, max coaching and fully expanded training hall/fitness center, would lose 5 points focusing on a fitness skill and 6.2 points focusing on a non-fitness skill. Take into consideration that if you kept these points, they would have to be spread among the skills in the grouping and you need a total of 100 pts per skill for the skill to pop, your talking about a pretty small loss. At non-max coaching/training/fitness, etc, the loss is even smaller.

jespernohr wrote: Odball wrote: unfocused on fitness until speed/strength cap Completely agree, if you are a Supporter. If not a Supporter then it would be hell to try an calculate if Speed or Strength is capped if training unfocused.

i would agree to this.
before i had the supporter, i had to train speed or strength. after a while, i just switched (even though now i have found out that most of my players still have uncapped physicals). training physical for too long at the beginning of your GI career isnt necessarily recommended because you could waste a lot of training time. i quickly moved away from training physicals to training main skills and i worked out pretty well.