I will do another suggestion as viewpoint, and is to talk about the matches in the sense of different "scenarios".
So you can have a team full of 9* players but you never will have all team with a 9 as rating, because in my opinion the game do a ranking of the better-worst player in % of shoots and so in the team...

Then the game will work in 1 sense if you attend or if you don't. If you attend you have to decide between different actions to affect some different "scenarios" let's say, a match in what you are more aggresive and you can avoid a red card doing a change, a match against a worst Q. team that, is in 8th position but is winning in the 1st half, so you have to change of strategy or do a change to try to affect to the result.

And with all these factors, what I wanna explain is that "maybe" in some "scenarios" the captain have some meaning, but I don't know if affects the team in defensive/attacking mode depending of the player, or, affects in a result simply appearing in some actions, or, in another sense that we really have to "study" more deep.

I say that because as we know there are some factors that affect in "slightly" to the game, slightly in the sense of = in a little %.
For example player in wrong position affect to the possession yea, but team can play better with a ST as AMC.
Red card affects but sometimes in favour of who plays with 10... teh bonus of victory too, affect slightly in some sense.... and usually I talk about more things like these but now we are in the morning and don't have all these stuffs in ma mind but, just will say that lots of things affect sligthly to the game and the captain is 1.


If I have to say in my opinion what can affect more in a result between 2 teams of same Q. I will say that are:
1- Select the correct man for corners and fouls when season starts, because that's usually = 1 goal x chance.
2- Attend the match and substitute players that fail continously or, don't appear.
3- Change mentality.
4- The Bonus.


And till here I writte and I gonna go for ma brekfast. Today seems that raining sttopped and sun is shinning so will stay away enjoyying