Quote Originally Posted by Phil Scrivener View Post
Seems like most do not like the randomness of the NGE. Right ?? because your team keeps losing to rubbish teams. The game should be so predictable right ?? No that would be boring and we would be complaining god the game is so predictable .

Sport is unpredictable !!! especially soccer ( football ) , or we would all be rich winning the pools every week .

The English Premier League starts next week !! maybe someone from England can post the full fixture list in a new post and we can all give our predictions including win lose or draw and the score ???

Lets see how predictable it is !!!

I'm not denying there are some bad results on here sure < all I'm saying is maybe some (me included) like the unpredictability of it all keeps me on my toes as a manager (does that make me a troll ) ?
Yep when Manchester city kick off with Aguero in goal and Hart up front or play 5 in defense with 5 defensive midfielders then you can compare the 2. If you compare this game to real life football plesase give the appropriate examples not just football in general. The problem is the match engine cannot comprend what an illegal formation is and penalise the team appropriately when one is selected. It cannot handle it when a team goes down to 8 men and leaves gaping holes in the formation due to no manager or substitute instructions so it counteracts by turning the DRs and DLs into supermen. When you defensive gets skinned by the DC who plays a blinding cross behind the defence to the DR makes you wonder why we do not see Terry running down the wings more often.

The match engine is to be blamed it is not complex enough to manage all the variables and will give out a result based on many hard encoded factors. What happens in the game will have little or no effect or what the predetermined calculation will be. There may be a little randomness to the calculation but not much. I do little on tactics and normally just change the team because of injuries the enjoyment for me is the trading and developing of players. The gaming side has no interest to me at all because i have little control over that.