While we're talking about U18 teams...I would like to get everyone's insight on whether to bring up a player who is under 18 to play with the first team.  I have a 16-year-old that's good enough, but I worry that all the matches will reduce his training time which I understand is the most important part of development until 18.  Thoughts?

ZaZ said: If you use the auto-rest, then you should have less injuries than normal, because most injuries from training happen with tired players (which then will skip training and avoid those injuries). About match injuries, I don't think there is a noticeable increase. Expand

Thanks for the quick response.  I think I had some bad RNG right when I switched training schedules.  20 games in and so far no more injuries than expected.

I know this thread hasn't been active for a while, but I just started playing and I am soaking in the information.  @ZaZ I understand your basic training concept and have made the adjustments that you and EBSM suggest (to schedules and days off based on condition), but I have a couple of questions.

1) I'm definitely seeing more "Overall Risk of Injury: High".  Should I ignore this?
2) Does the quality of the medical staff impact this?  If yes, is there anything I can do besides hire better physios?

Thanks!