What is the point of PPM training? Some players do PPM's already .... ?

[Linkoping]

I'm really starting to not get the point of training PPM's like Places Shots on some of my strikers.

From my experience now, it seems the *good* striker players seem to already place their shots, so it seems pointless to teach them the places shots training.

Meanwhile, some of my strikers though I teach them the Places Shots PPM, yet they STILL continuously blast it straight at the goalie (SAVE). It's as if the PPM doesn't affect them at all.

I have one young striker (22yrs) who just learnt places shots yet he still never places it and just fires it right at the keeper. So annoying. Gonna sell him I think.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[adman278]

Could be something to do with his finishing? What is it?

 

[Meemo]

Finishing and most importantly, mental stats come into play. (Decisions, Composure and possibly Concentration)

 

[Mike.]

Sports Interactive Community

 

[cZeur]

For the Place Shot PPM, the most important stats are Finishing,Technique&Composure. With Shoot with Power, it's Strength&Balance

 

[Linkoping]

So wait - I thought that when you ask a player to learn a PPM - they'll only learn it if they think they'll be effectual with it (ie. they have the attributes to support it.) If they don't have the attributes to support it - I thought they'd just tell you "I don't think it'll benefit my game."

Is this not true? A player can accept to learn a PPM regardless of whether they have the stats and then their effectivness with that PPM depends on their stats?

So theoretically you can tell a striker with very poor composure to learn Place Shots, and he will learn it but just suck with it? I always figured a striker with poor composure would never learn Place Shots and tell you it wouldn't benefit his game.