The Statsguy's Mag 9 Almighty Coach

Views : 2.41million

Rating : 8.8(133)

Chapters : 629

Status : ongoing

Word count : 1.87million

Author : Victory General

author level : lv5

No of works : 2

Disscussion : 7195

Year started : 2017

Translated works : Almighty Athlete

Genres : Slice of Life, Sports

Tags : Books, Determined Protagonist, Game Elements, Male Protagonist, Modern Day, System

Popularity : Not much popular in China

Last edited : 24/nov/2018

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Website : qidian international

Views : 5million

Rating : 4.4(230)

Chapters : 393

Rank : 106

Status : ongoing

Schedule : 10ch/week but translating at 11ch/week

Translator :

Editor :

Popularity : Not much popular here right now

Last edited : 24/nov/2018

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Synopsis :

How could a poor graduate student without any background or connections become successful? With a coaching system? An upgrade? This is not a computer game, but real life we're talking about!

This will be a fantasy based on reality. Dai Li will fight back against all those who would mock and humiliate him with his astonishing and awe-inspiring training skills. From a n.o.body he'll try to become the most ill.u.s.trious coach in the sports world, so join him in proving to everyone who's the real master here!

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

Please read because this is a gem in the rough. There is NO RACISM nor POLITICAL BIAS in this novel! You'd expect with this kind of novel you would see the typical over-nationalism but no the author is respectful for others nations and even explaining that many other countries have a better technique than China's own. The MC even goes as far as adapt it to his own team but they don't claim it as their own.

Spoiler

For example in a relay race he uses a Thailand technique (i think) and many including himself recognize he used it for his own to win. He even acknowledges them as pioneers in the relay race.

I love this novel though there is the typical idiots who try to fight against him but it never last more than 7 chapters as he relies on his own connections or results to beat them. I absolutely LOVE this novel because in the end the author is UNBIASED and tries to improve his own country by adapting OTHER country techniques and learning as he goes on (HE DOES NOT CLAIM IT AS HIS OWN AND EVEN CREDITS WHERE IT IS FROM). He even recognizes hard talent and effort and for that I give this 5 stars just because its rare to see in a novel on Qidian.

-By tyes77(NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW (tho it's not entirely negative. I added this because this a very helpful review):

In this novel we follow a novice coach that suddenly receives a "system" to help him train athletes.

Let's start with what this novel is not.

It's not a novel about people working hard to reach their goals. It's not really a "sport novel".

The sport aspect is merely the equivalent of a "skin or a theme" applied on the usual Xanxia formula.

Now let's talk about what to expect here.

The MC is the usual undeserving basic guy that has a cheat system fall on his lap. This time no reincarnation, world travel or other. He just gets it, no particular reason.

His system allows him to level up as he train people, making him a better trainer. Basically, as you'll find in the very first chapters, increasing his coaching level mean the very same action or advice will have a bigger impact on the trainee, often an unreaslistic impact. For exemple less than an hour of training obese children (that could not do 1 pull up) will sudden allow them to do 5 or 6 of them. 2 weeks of training those very obese children will make them go from last to dominating the tests and becoming number 1 with a perfect score in 5 or 6 sports (running, pull ups, long jumpand so on).

Remember the last you heard a coach trained a dozen of VERY fat kids for two weeks and those kids ALL scored perfect (100%) on their sport exams and did even better than the fit kids from sport clubs? No? Me neither.

His cheat also grants him items and techniques, for exemple he gets a skill to make people loose weight. Which is basically doing radio exercise for 10 mn to loose half a kilogram, repeatable as many time as you need.

You guessed it, this is NOT about the athlete, this is all about the coach (the MC).

Everything is setup so that no matter what the MC does, everyone will look down on him, just so that when the MC pulls a miracle out of his hat everyone is face slapped.

The MC will move from place to places a LOT, and every time he'll manage to inadvertently strike some conflict with someone he had never heard of, just so that person can be humiliated later on.

All athletes are throw away characters. The MC changes trainees like he changes socks (seriously) so very few athletes have a real personality, since they will disapear in maybe 10 chapters or so. There is absolutly no continuity in the training. He will train obese children, but then will jump up to high school kid, then a national athlete than to something else. It's always a different sport too. The reason is that there is no depth to the training, it's all "magical", fast and not sustainable as all his athletes instantly become number 1, so the author has tomake him move on to other athletes and sports, fast.

Something that particularly bothers me is that even though nothing the MC does is his talent (everything is thanks to the system but as LN readers we are used to that) he still uses "doping" items, like a halo that boost his trainees stats, to increase their performances by x% as long as it is active. That means during compet.i.tions his trainees get better scores thanks to that too because even though their current level might be worse than the compet.i.tion, the 10% from the halo is enough to push them to the number one spot.

They are just not fighting on their own against others. This is disdainful for me, I can accept the fact that the cheat trainer allows them to progress faster. But once they are in the "ring/field/etc" they are on their own and it should be about their current abilities against others. But no, the MC has no activate his cheats to artificially up his athletes stats... This is not okay in a sport novel.

Something else that bothers me, is that most of the athletes he trains have decent strength on their own, sometimes not enough to be first, but still be pretty good.

But the MC doesn't really "train" them, we basically see none of that, what he does is push them up temporarily so that they can rank 1st, in order for him to rack up achievements. The athletes of course know nothing of his "cheats", so they think they are good enough to go professional, recruitement teams will contact them and those athletes that thought they got there with their own skills, fill find out when the MC leaves that they can't sustain their old performances... Because as they are not his trainees they can't enjoy the benefits of the cheats.

But what happens to them when they join the new team and they noticed that their great score went back to "ok"? What happen when they trhew away their studies to join a sport college thinking they could make it? The novel tells us none of that, because the MC has already moved on.

A few other thing bother me but they are comon to most LNs. There is no tension, the athletes trained by the MC will always be first and win. The MC also has a lotery system when he levels up (of course...) and that item he got randomly will always be exactly what he needs in the next page, no matter how useless it might seem.

Just... No suspens.

Well Basically to enjoy this novel, one has to push aside the sport aspect completly and not have high expectations.

There is nothing relatable for people that enjoy sport novels. Nothing. They also have to accept that the novel is like any Xanxia novel solely about the MC. The rest of the characters are trash bags waiting to be thrown away. The cheat to get strongers in those novels are here cheats to "coach stronger", the strength level in those fighting novels are here his "coach levels", "martial arts" are "coach arts", and so on, it's the same thing.

I rate it 3 because it's not that good but readable.

-By Slashs(NU)

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My thoughts : It's a very fun read though you have turn off your brain sometime to enjoy the novel.

In my library : Yes