Australia doesn't have a shortage of safeties. The only reason the team was short safeties was a player automaticaly retired half way through the world cup cycle as he was fired from his team and no other teams showed interest. Just bad luck for us.

There are lots of players available to choose from, just gotta look past the high wages ones and find the gems hidden away with main skills of 15/16 with good physicals.

Another random safety from Australia:-

Pos/Vis = 4 (working on it)
Tackling 15
Intelligence 15
Speed 17
Strength 20 (BMI adj to 17)
Catching 5 (working on it)
Agility 15
Stamina 16
Consistency 11

If I was to take anything out of the last WC roster. The lack of physicals from the majority of the DLine and LBackers was the main concern. I didn't see many pressures or sacks from the defense. Even though they all had 17+ tackling. But many had poor physicals.

No. Non-supporters have to keep track of it every week with a spreadsheet.

Minimum base points = 8 (this fluctuates, but you want the maximum time and thus the minimum points it takes to ensure you don't think it's capped when it may not be)
Coaches = 1 per fitness coaching level
Teamwork divided by 2 = bonus points
Training intensity = whatever you set it to. Should usually always be 'average' so this is usually 0
Fitness centre = +10% to total points or higher depending on level of fitness centre (note, not training hall, as this doesn't give points towards physicals and only skill training)
Total available physical points per training cycle = 8 + coaches + (teamwork/2) + fitness centre


Focus on specific physical = 75% of your total points on the focused skill and the rest on the other skills with a small bit lost. For the point of calculating a specific physical cap, 0.75*FocusPoints.

Note, it's 75% on the focused skill for ALL training except Attacking (which is 0.65% due to having a higher number of skills). That's why it's usually considered a better idea to train Agility through Defence over Attacking (assuming coach levels are equal or close to).

Thus, when focus training the points you get on a specific skill each week = (8 + coaches + TW/2 + fitness centre) * 0.75

Then, as it takes 100 points per level up... 100/FocusPoints = How many weeks it should take to level up at a MAXIMUM. You focus train a physical for that long and if it doesn't go up, then you know it's capped.



The advantages of being a supporter of course is that you know straight away when they hit their soft cap and don't have to waste up to four weeks of training. However the cap most people refer to IS a soft cap and there is a chance of going up a maximum of three levels everytime it hits 100 (refer to FAQ for those odds). Sometimes you can strike it lucky as a non-supporter and keep training blissfully unaware and get up to +3 over the soft cap whereas a supporter would most likely have stopped straight away. Highly unlikely that many players get that lucky and you probably just end up wasting 4 weeks, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few of my players have gone beyond their soft cap by at least a level or two purely because I'm unaware of their initial cap and just struck it lucky.

Daudy wrote: The advantages of being a supporter of course is that you know straight away when they hit their soft cap and don't have to waste up to four weeks of training. However the cap most people refer to IS a soft cap and there is a chance of going up a maximum of three levels everytime it hits 100 (refer to FAQ for those odds). Sometimes you can strike it lucky as a non-supporter and keep training blissfully unaware and get up to +3 over the soft cap whereas a supporter would most likely have stopped straight away. Highly unlikely that many players get that lucky and you probably just end up wasting 4 weeks, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few of my players have gone beyond their soft cap by at least a level or two purely because I'm unaware of their initial cap and just struck it lucky.

The soft cap is easy to know. Talent x2 + 10 for non physical skills. It is very easy to work out and don't need a supporter account really to figure it out.

Speed and strength do not have a soft cap. It is straight into a hard cap. These skills are the one that make the supporter account worth it. Cos it will take 3-4 weeks using maximum add ons to get a player to raise a stat point. Or not if the unknown stat has been reached.

The whole National thing to me is a joke.

The yanks, for example, would have at least 10 times the amount of players in the system so their team is always going to be a ton better.