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Everybody says its a soft cap because everybody says its a soft cap. I would like to read a precise description of what soft cap means to managers who experienced it. (-> diary)
3 weeks for OD is - if not happening at every skill-up - totally normal depending on age, height, trainer level.

soft cap doesnt necessarily mean training slows down progressively, it's just not an absolute cap where you can't train beyond that. For example, the NBA team salary allowed is a soft cap, it's a precise number over which it is more difficult to spend.

I am not questioning the fact of its existence. But the strngth of its effect is what intruiges me -and nobody really describes it. When you first notice that skill-ups come slower, how many additional skill-ups are possible? Is it skill dependent?

I know all that, and I try not to be sophisticated. We both understand that a soft cap can be implemented in very different ways, which means that the training responsiveness can change very slowly or extremely quickly. further we both understand that depending on the bb position, training doesn't change the salary (eg inside shot is not changing the salary of a small forward until he switches to become a pf).

So, I just wanted to make the point that it is useless to discuss the general concept of a soft cap unless I do not know in what way it was implemented: it simply doesn't help to specify my training strategy.

As it happened to you before: can you describe how the intervals of skill-ups changed? How many skill-ups did you generate after you were first sure that the soft cap effect kicked in?

But I assume that people with systematic training plans are able to say how many additional skill-ups they could achieve once they first noticed reduced training speed. In some German forum discussions folks said it was pretty rapid change of training speed, so therefore the cap would not be so soft.

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If the cap was related to salary, a typical shooting guard would hit hard against the cap if you were training js or range (-> strong salary effect). However, with such an implementation training of ps should still work out fine as most of them have skill levels that generate small salary increments. Did anyone try different training types in capped players?

I think the term "hard cap" means something different than you mean. A hard cap means that beyond the point of reaching the cap, no more training is possible at all. A soft cap allows that a player be trained further after reaching the cap, although rather slower than before. The soft cap can even kick in at some particular point and be quite harsh, but as long as training is still possible, it is nevertheless soft.

I give you an example:

Training a 185 cm SG (22 y) in single position training in OD, may give you a skill up every 2.3 weeks of training. If the soft cap kicks in and changes it to 3 weeks, it is likely that you will not notice this before 5 weeks of time. With such an effect however, you may decide that it is still worth to train player. However, if it chages to 4 weeks for the next skill up (still a soft cap), you will start to be quite discouraged. At the same time, you will notice earlier that there is an effect.

There should be somebody out there that could share with us his training diary.