Player Development - The Levels

The Levels System

The heart of Total Club Manager 2003 is the player level system.

Starting in the youth team it is your goal as a manager to help your players to get the most out of themselves - to develop good skills, a good character and good tactical understanding, to get experience and to be in a good shape with a high fitness value.

The player level system in Total Club Manager works a little bit like in a role playing game.

To improve the level of a player you have a number of skills and character traits you can work on. Some of them will be very hard to change (like “Leadership qualities”), others are only easy to improve when the player is very young (e.g. “Acceleration”).

At most points in the game, the playing level of a player is indicated simply as "Level". This value is not dependent on the form of the player on a particular day. It is, for example, the most important criterion for calculating a player`s value on the transfer market.

In addition, there is another level value, the "Actual Level" (AL), which takes account of factors on a particular day, such as form, morale and match practice of a player in his current position. The player begins the match with this level.

Playing Level (PL)
This level is composed of the level of a player in a team unit, his particular skills and his experience. The player can also receive a special bonus.

Important: The level always relates to a player`s best position on the pitch. This does not necessarily have to correspond to the main position set in the data editor. If a player`s skills mean that he is better in a different position, Total Club Manager 2003 takes account of this. However, the player is already experienced in the main position set in the editor and he will need a certain amount of time to settle into the position to which he is best suited.

Team Unit
Every player receives an assessment for the four team units Goalkeepers, Defence, Midfield and Attack. In the editor, this assessment is between 0 and 6 points, but as the game progresses it can be increased further through specific training.