I hadn't noticed the free kicks being an inverse of fouls against but I did see the FK's had gone up to a realistic looking level rather than only counting those in a threatening position.

I am not sure how I feel about the change. While it was stupid to see 1-2 FK's in a game with 15 fouls I don't like that it made it more difficult to track the effectiveness of my FK specialist(s).

If they were going to make this change they should have added a category for FK's from dangerous area??


Has anyone else seen their CK's become less effective the past 2 seasons or is it just me? I have a LW/LAM with over 100 career assists in going on 4 seasons but his first 2 seasons he was getting 35-40 and now its been cut in half the past 2 seasons. The talent around him hasn't gotten any worse, There hasn't been a massive drop in goals scored in general although the past week or so my offense has slumped worse than any point in 5 seasons.

I just seem to be getting more goals from open play and less from set pieces without any real change in tactics, talent vs opp talent ratio, etc.



The last week since these few changes started popping up has me very worried though. I was on pace to shatter my single season goal record and now I won't come very close unless I avg 7 per game the rest of the way. I have been shutout twice in this span when that hadn't happened a single time since season 2. (almost 3 full seasons).

There has been an across the board drop in form like I have never seen. I went from having just over half my players getting 8/9 every game to getting 2-3 and 1-2 6's where there had been maybe one 6 every 2-3 games.