Subject: Questions & Answers

Ah ok - thats a shame! Well I'm sure you'll let me know when you know.

Question:
Youth training - this attribute indicates the ability to provide more juniors coming from the sports academy. The attribute also influences the overall rating of the young prospects coming to your team for a trial.

In what way does this attribute influences overall rating of the young prospects?
Does it shows better how good prospect player is with number of stars?
Or
Should it increase quality/overall rating?

If the second answer is correct one, can you tell me how much is minimum OR for for lvl 12 SA with 100% managers?

Another question is how came that teams from lower leagues (3-4-5), with lower SA levels and worse staff are getting better players in quality, CL and OR? Its absolute opposite from guide explanation.

The quality of a player (ie. number of starts) is a random thing. Teams with 1st or 15th level of Sports Academy have the same chances to pull the player with excellent qualities.
For the other two questions, you need someone from PPM team to answer it.

Second question could be explained by subjectivity of a viewer. It's normal thing that top clubs won't sell their HQ young players, so you won't be in a position to see them so often on market like you see from weak clubs. Also, you shouldn't neglect fact that there are much more weaker clubs in PPM than strong ones.

As IzzaX said, quality is random. The better your SA and your staff is the better is your chance of getting a junior with high OR. But it increases only your chance there is no minimum OR.

I would agree with that explanation.
But then is question how much SA and staff have influence.

There is no point to build something or to pay for something that has no significant influence on end result. And at this moment only way to learn is it or not worth it is to build everything and see what happens.

Can we get more exact info from PPM?

My recent experience:
Guys I drew this season with SA 13 that had around 70% AQ: Something like OR 380-390.
The one guy with AQ 70% I drew since I have SA 14: OR 458.
Youth training was 90%-96%.

I don't know how to generalize that, but there is definitely a significant rise in OR for compatible players.
And don't forget you draw more players with higher SA, until now I had 4 every time with 14. But still, it's I game of chance of course. Of the 16 players I drew with 14 only 2-3 had a decent quality.
In the end it's up to you to decide if a SA is worth its money.

Well if I add my expirience - I have SA lvl12 for 2 seasons, with full season of staff being on 100% for youth. In that 2 seasons I have pulled just one 80+AQ with 380 OR. Everything else was between 200-300 OR wit AQ below 50%. Oh i had 2 pulls with 11% AQ and under 200 CV.

So i do not see any improvement here. Most of my players were pulled in third league and few in second, when I had worse staff and low level SA.

So I can not get good conclusion.

You miss my point here. There is a significant improvement in OR between quality-wise comparable players drawn with better SA and sporting directors. Qualities on the other hand are random, as was pointed out several times before.
So, take a look at your players with similar AQ, at their training progress, to find out with what OR they entered your team. You will definitely see a vast improvement over time.

Ah, now I understand what you said. Following that, guide is right, but it's good basis for misinterpretation.

Yes, might be. One could reasonably think that qualities should be somehow correlated with the SA, that's imho what causes some players to despair. But it is actually written in the guide, in the sports academy section.

Nah, I never misinterpreted quality question. Thats was clear. But I always missed that OR increase. I have compared few players, and your explanation looks like to be right answer.

Maybe it would be better to have in guide something like:
The attribute also influences the overall rating of the young prospects coming to your team for a trial (comparing players with same quality level).

Thanks, BTW.
Forgot to say that.

Maybe. Don't know. It should probably be made more explicit what happens in player generation (hope I got this right ):

(a) First, the qualities are generated SA-independent.
(b) Then, a player gets his skill-values, dependent on (a) and the SA (and sporting directors).

No prob.