What Effects Effort? And How do I Improve It?

[medical3072]

Questions in the title.

Some of my key starters have given F effort throughout the season, and my team is averaging a D effort through 7 games. The puzzling thing is that many guys who have consistently given F efforts are team captains with good intangibles.

Also, my team's attitude has been B+ every game despite having a 1-6 record...

[AKH]

a combination of coach skills (e.g. motivating and others) and coach personalities and player personalities (e.g. work ethic, competitiveness and others + socialtypes).

Gotta get tougher coaches and/or high character players to get it up.