Quote Originally Posted by IImaestroII View Post
From the beginnig i believed that these things matters , tall st or tall gk or short winger/inside foward etc.. but the problem is that we can't see this things in the animation ( if we have 3D we will notice something for sure ) but the engine "seems" to put this data in calculation . Btw 1.80m is not short ^^ ( personally i'm 1,91m) you can call Messi short.

"even if had the correct foot and a benefit for his position", I partially agree with this, AMR and AML they perform better with the opposite foot cause they often cut it and shoot ( personally i prefer players capable with both ), instead is good to have a DL, MR ( or DR , MR opposite ) with left foot beacuse their duty is only (mostly) to cross the ball
But there are already dozens of factors that the game count, there's no space for more info xD still the fact that dev's answered this question in 2012-2013