Why?

Some teams occassionally struggle to balance out the area SL requirements. I know sometimes I end up having to play a player out of position because of this or add in a couple of levels of hardness when I really don´t want to. This coach can be used to solve this problem by adding some useful extra levels to one area of your team (not Gk or Sw areas). When facing a highly touted offense one option is to play the ost combined with midfield dominance. This does not suit every team however, but this coach can for example give you a big boost in the DEF area to counter this problem.

This coach can add extra levels to one outfield area and we have several options as to how this might be calculated which we would welcome some feedback on. One option is to add 1 SL level per player in that position. If your team has 5 defenders playing this would give you an additional 5 SL.  Another option is to add a % (10% in Def,  7.5% Mf and 5% Fw) to an area. Say you had 4 defenders at 14, 12, 11, 9 SL for a total of 46 in the DEF area. The positional coach would add 10% (truncated) for 4 more levels to be added to the DEF are making it 50. If you have 3 DF´s at 10, 9, 8 SL for a total of 27, this coach would give you 2 more levels for a total SL of 29.

 

 

One consideration is that thematically it is easier to coach defence than attack becaus the former is more about organisation and the latter creativity. Partly why we were  considering tapering the benefit from Df to Fw in one of the options above.

Advantages/Disadvantages to this BRB?

 

Could this coach be too powerful in strengthening an already strong FW line? Maybe it should just be a Def Positional Coach or should the coach have the flexibility to add his benefits to any outfield area and make him more tactically useful in keeping the opposition guessing as to where he will be applied.