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I have to say I am extremely confused as what changes are being made and what do they mean.

No proper explanation, confusing details, continuous tinkering, etc. etc.

true this new ge implementation in the middle of the season is really bad and confusing to every one =(

1. Allow exhausted players to still play 48 minutes at the reduced skill levels.

This. And older players have to suffer more. I train since the beginning and is not common to see players over 30 yo still trainable so put a big drop with old players and reduce it in proportion when they're younger. Probably you'll not delete the problem of short rosters but at least these teams have to spend millions on the TL to buy strong players around 27-29 yo.

All of those points that you outlined are great ideas imo, especially number 4 (not only for high stamina players but in general), and should be done asap but not before the end of the season. The same is valid for this new exhaustion implementation.

I realize that the aim is to do something about the short rosters fast enough to punish them for this season's decisive phase but I can't really stress enough how important it is to give users heads up, announce planned changes well in advance in order for managers to have enough time to make adjustments and prepare. That's how it was in the good old days and it was impressive.

Besides, as we witnessed recently, those planned changes might not be as good a solution as the person implementing them thought they would be. Thus, discussion and adjustments to the changes themselves might be needed, again leading us to how important heads up is.

Last but not least - I'm impressed at your synthesis of the discussion. In my opinion, with those four points, you have taken everything really important and if all those are well implemented you will have solved several major defects in one shot. Kudos!

Was today's cup game using the new changes to exhaustion?

I'm sure you can check and you'll see that probably less than 5% trains 3 players. You may drop drastically the efficency of the 3 players over 36 minutes in an exponential way. In this way you may let free to train and force top teams to have at least 3 decent backups

Anyone know which games are currently being played with the new exhaustion rules? And has it been confirmed the playoffs will be played with the new rules?