[Will Beh]

Good question! Here's a quick rundown on that new feature;

Players throughout the year will have routines, and standard things they do to practice, get better, and maintain themselves.
However, players do not all have the same routines. The power hitting DH is not going to get a coach to hit him groundballs for hours; he's going to work in the cage instead. The players only have so many hours in a day, and the new player development focus sliders allow you to split up their finite time into the areas of their game that you want them to spend time on. This essentially allows you to micromanage how development influence gets applied to their different ratings, which contributes to development, maintenance, and aging.

Quick overview of in-game mechanics
- Development focus builds off of the existing development system, it is always there and influences the player at all times.
- To adjust a slider, you need to take out of one rating slider to put into another. I.e. you need to get the time from somewhere.
- When all sliders are at the middle state, this is just the same as the development influence of past games.
- When you give more to a rating, not only will it improve development, which includes current ratings as well as talent increases, but it also influences how well a player who has already maxed out his current ratings will maintain it and even fight off the aging curve if he's getting older.
- However, since you need to take the time from somewhere, the aspects of his game that a player neglects will suffer opposite to the above.
- Being 10 points below the halfway mark is actually more detrimental in terms of the probabilities than it is beneficial to be 10 points above the halfway mark
- Once you set a player's focus manually, don't forget to tick the lock checkbox to prevent the AI from changing it. The AI control options can be found in the manager settings, and you can give the AI control over setting the focus for your minor league players, major league players, or both.