I play BT too but the concept of enthusiasm is different to that and more similar to the team spirit and confidence concepts used in hattrick. Players have their own stamina levels but enthusiasm will affect the level they can play at.
From the rules:
Enthusiasm
You can decide how hard you want you team to try on any given day (except in a scrimmage, where your team is just going to try as hard as they normally do because the coach is watching). Your team has a baseline level of enthusiasm that they bring to the game, and the more enthusiastic your team is, the harder they will be able to play. You can also tell your team to try harder in an important game (Crunch Time), although they'll need some time to recover over the next week or two. Alternatively, you can Take it Easy in a game so that your team will be able to play harder in the future. In addition, your team's enthusiasm tends back towards the default value of 5 over time, and will always reach 5 during the offseason.
For particularly important games, including league playoff games, relegation games, and the final two rounds of the national tournament, your players will be too excited to "take it easy". In these games, the only options available are Playoff Normal, in which your team receives the enthusiasm effects of a regular Take It Easy but the effort level of a regular Normal, and Playoff Crunch Time, in which your team receives the enthusiasm effects of a regular Normal but the effort level of a regular Crunch Time.
You should read this and come back to it a few times as it is a very key part of the game. You can develop a great team but without managing your enthusiasm well, you could lose games you could win and unnecessarily flog teams that you could have beaten using less effort.
As for training, it all depends on what you wish to do with your training plan. Will you train to keep or mainly train for profit and buy players for your team with the proceeds? Training to 20-21 then selling is a good strategy but big men like centres and power forwards won't need to be trained up as far as say a balanced small forward. You should identofy what you will train and keep tabs with the transfer market as to what is selling for what.
Last edited by mpoole1977 at 1/3/2010 5:50:53 AM