Do player ratings matter?

My 4-star GK keeps giving me match ratings of 4s and 5s while my 3-star GK gives me consistent performances of 7s and 8s. So I wonder, how important are these ratings? Do they really reflect bad forms of a player or are they just meaningless numbers? And if they do matter, how can I change their form? The 4-star GK rarely gives me an 8 or a 9, but he is indeed better (in terms of skills) than my 3-star GK - so who should I stick with?

Please don't say it's the morale, both GKs have perfectly green morale...

I've found that GKs can get 4/5/6 rating even when they've kept a clean sheet, purely because they've had nothing to do all game - the oppo's shots have all been off target, or my defence has been too strong for him to get shots off.

I've found that GKs only get 8/9 ratings when they've had to make lots of saves, which is a bad thing.

I'd only worry if he's getting a bad rating because he's not making any saves, and letting loads of goals in, in which case, sub him and play your back up, he's probably on a bad run of form.

dont worry about player ratings, ratings is a lie

I think they do, I played a cup match today, My opponent team had 5 players missing so I new he the computer would automaticly select his subs as replacements, he was level 9 I am L7, most of his sub team players where lower or about the same as the team I put out(my weaker team). but he did have two very good players his goal keeper and a midfielder who where both 63 and 62 , which I can not reach yet on my level, anyway the game was at a stupid time in the morning so I did not watch it!, I get up today check my results and find I lost 3 -0 and was 3 down after 20mins, got a player injured early in the second half so was playing with 10 men because Id forgotton to set me subs, there was no one watching the game! so this tells me I have lost the match mainly because he had to very good players in his team that I can not get yet.

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Originally Posted by Peter Lewis

My 4-star GK keeps giving me match ratings of 4s and 5s while my 3-star GK gives me consistent performances of 7s and 8s. So I wonder, how important are these ratings? Do they really reflect bad forms of a player or are they just meaningless numbers? And if they do matter, how can I change their form? The 4-star GK rarely gives me an 8 or a 9, but he is indeed better (in terms of skills) than my 3-star GK - so who should I stick with?

Please don't say it's the morale, both GKs have perfectly green morale...

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No one knows, there's no reliable manual and they won't disclose any infos about how the game works, you can only guess and believe.

It's all obscure, repressive and mysterious and you can get banned if you point the obvious, even in an educated manner or your posts will be moved to "venting threads".

Rating do matter its quite clear if you try to analyse it with player performance in the match...In fact it is one the few things that are real in the game...

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Originally Posted by Skidz

I think they do, I played a cup match today, My opponent team had 5 players missing so I new he the computer would automaticly select his subs as replacements, he was level 9 I am L7, most of his sub team players where lower or about the same as the team I put out(my weaker team). but he did have two very good players his goal keeper and a midfielder who where both 63 and 62 , which I can not reach yet on my level, anyway the game was at a stupid time in the morning so I did not watch it!, I get up today check my results and find I lost 3 -0 and was 3 down after 20mins, got a player injured early in the second half so was playing with 10 men because Id forgotton to set me subs, there was no one watching the game! so this tells me I have lost the match mainly because he had to very good players in his team that I can not get yet.

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Hey skidz I think he is talking about match rating not player rating...Match rating matter but I don't think that player rating matters a lot because he can be badly programmed player who will play badly no matter what his rating is...

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Originally Posted by Siddharth Shanker Singh

Rating do matter its quite clear if you try to analyse it with player performance in the match...In fact it is one the few things that are real in the game...

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Would you elaborate please? 'cos I am not losing any match from the "poor" performance by my GK, he's not making any major mistakes (as far as I can tell) but it's just his ratings are at 4 and 5 all the time...

He's getting bad ratings because he hasn't had to make saves.
The only time keepers will get 8/9 ratings is if the opposition have had a good amount of shots on target and your keeper has had to make crucial saves.

...which is a bad thing, you want a solid defence, so if your keeper doesn't need to make any saves and gets a 5 rating, don't worry.

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Originally Posted by littledude072

dont worry about player ratings, ratings is a lie

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agree, rating is a lie

my AMC/AMR
game 1 - had 1 assist - rating 5
game 2 - 2 goals - rat 6
g3 - 1 g, 1 as - rat 5
g4 - 1 as - rat 4
g5 - 1 g - rat 5
and jump...
g6 - 1 g, 1 as - rat 7
g7 - rat 7
g8 - 2 as - rat 8
g9 - 1 as - rat 7
g10 - 1 g - rat 8

no. that simple. the important is what you see, how works a player, if he is active and help the team.
Perfectly a player can have always a 7 rating and do nothing.

I do think the ratings matter, but are not the total picture of the player. I have an MC that scores and get's the six, and my GK's take naps and get fives. I pretty much ignore the GK ratings, as I do think it is about how many times they touch the ball. But when my MC get's low ratings I think it means I am underutilizing him.

They really do not. my STs get 7-7 forms when they miss 7 chances from 7. As said in other threads this game consists of random numbers.

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Originally Posted by Sxrenity

He's getting bad ratings because he hasn't had to make saves.
The only time keepers will get 8/9 ratings is if the opposition have had a good amount of shots on target and your keeper has had to make crucial saves.

...which is a bad thing, you want a solid defence, so if your keeper doesn't need to make any saves and gets a 5 rating, don't worry.

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What about other positions? I have got a DMC getting a lot of 5s as well...

But now I am more inclined to believe that ratings are lies...

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Originally Posted by Peter Lewis

What about other positions? I have got a DMC getting a lot of 5s as well...

But now I am more inclined to believe that ratings are lies...

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It could be down to the formation you play him in, also you cant expect every player to get 7+ every game, what formation do you play your DMC in? I play mine in 3-1-4-2.

For me rating is important. Player who have note of 6, don t play with me !!! And when i win it´s when i have good rating for players!

I would like to know why I have ratings for a player I have barely used this season.

http://i57.tinypic.com/330ealt.png

Look at #4 at the bottom, 5-5-5-5-5. I have used him ONCE this season and yet he has ratings. I look at the stats of this single player and the ratings are blank except for one cup game.

http://i57.tinypic.com/24dq1k2.png

so stats are reset evey season except for career stats and as far as I know, ratings are not career stats.

is this another fubar thing on Nordeeus?

I dunno, but I think this just shows that ratings are bogus and just assigned to a player.

If this is true, what a boondoggle.

yep, meant match ratings is a lie, not player ratings. my english was glitchy there. player rating is the only thing important

heres an example for ye non believers that took place ever so many moons ago
won the game by at least 7 goals (think the final score was 10ish - 3ish)
CAM got a hattrick assist but got a 6
CF got a hattrick goal but got a 7
RB (who i didnt read once) got an 8
LB, who i read just once on a failed counter, got a 9
im guessing all the other players were averageish since i dont remember the other ratings

just believe in your players and not some number

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Originally Posted by vinniekrak

I would like to know why I have ratings for a player I have barely used this season.

http://i57.tinypic.com/330ealt.png

Look at #4 at the bottom, 5-5-5-5-5. I have used him ONCE this season and yet he has ratings. I look at the stats of this single player and the ratings are blank except for one cup game.

http://i57.tinypic.com/24dq1k2.png

so stats are reset evey season except for career stats and as far as I know, ratings are not career stats.

is this another fubar thing on Nordeeus?

I dunno, but I think this just shows that ratings are bogus and just assigned to a player.

If this is true, what a boondoggle.

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I think they are his last five games anyway including previous season.

I have had terrible trouble with this in the past seasons and believe it does matter, as one, or two under performing players can make your team perform badly but don't ask me how to fix this as still try to figure that out.

In my experience, ratings seem more linked to positions rather then individual players. If I had problems with match ratings of my MC, then it didn't matter who was playing there, they'ld all get bad ratings on that position. I've had the same with injuries a few times. Thats how all of my ST got injured in the first few days of this season in one team.

Totally Agree! And ratings for a position are probably determined by Formation being played
It is the reason why, when you play a bad form player out of position, sometimes improves ratings
...Why a GK can play as a striker and score goals and get good ratings...
...Why there is a belief that you should always put your best 11 on the field and play them in a legal(?) :-) formation - not necessarily in their positions

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Originally Posted by fugazi

In my experience, ratings seem more linked to positions rather then individual players. If I had problems with match ratings of my MC, then it didn't matter who was playing there, they'ld all get bad ratings on that position. I've had the same with injuries a few times. Thats how all of my ST got injured in the first few days of this season in one team.

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Originally Posted by Cat Harrison

I think they are his last five games anyway including previous season.

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which is a bit odd dont you think? they dont carry over the stats from last season, what makes you think they actually keep them