Quote Originally Posted by Dennis Janosch View Post
I agree RjSlow. Would be a good thing. I had a look at the rules. As for international FIFA statutes a team has to consist of 7 players to start a match. I don´t think in national teams are as much unmanaged zombie teams like in T11 and would never happen there. So it might be a genaral thing to fill up with 1 star players here.

Also I really don´t get why You can have only 7 substitute players to a match. Even for a standard 4-4-2 you need at least 8 players to have a spare for every postion in case of injuries. As MCs normally can play only MC position you need to bring a DC/DL player and a DC/DR player to backup all positions with 7 reserve players. Leaving you little options on changing the strategy during the match because even a single DC/DMC would make you vulnerable for injuries. There´s teams with 30+ players out there and FIFA international statutes allow 12 reserve players to a match. 10 would do the job, 7 is not enough.

Edit: I´m from Berlin but YES I DO LOVE THE BVB!!1
There is far too much work that needs done on player counts before even thinking about subs. Namely the fact that your team rating is an average of all your players. Nordeus uses that number for almost all their calculations, but it's easily "fluffed" by simply having less players. Less players means that you devide by a smaller number, and thus every time a player improves it has more weight on that average number than a team with more players. To eliminate this they could sum your starting 11 only, but that won't happen.