Quote Originally Posted by nikolgiorgos View Post
That is very close to my theory I post in some threads , like
Mytbusters #18-21
http://forum.topeleven.com/top-eleve...-eleven-2.html
is one of them.
- Individuals skils don't matter
- The three main categories is questionable how

It doesn't make a different if we train and keep adding q in a player's skill like crossing and make him a corner specialist.
We 're doing training, developing the 3 main categories and each one of them contributes to the three main categories of the team.
There , among other factores who affect the calculation (game proccess), comes also the bonus to add some more.
Yeah, I have been thinking a lot about this. I think in relation to the bolded part, Moi's explanation gives us a pretty good understanding, and I think three key facts can be drawn from it:

Quote Originally Posted by Moi View Post
You have your 11 players in the pitch. Some of them add more contribution to the Defense rating than others, ie, strikers don't contribute at all, and defenders contribute the most.
Somehow, we don't know how, the ability of our team -- besides factors like the formation we use, bonuses and what not -- affects the outcome of a game. That is a sade assumption, at least when Tactician is not around...

Confirmed fact 1: The total ability of your team matters.

But we also as a fact learned something more. Not only does the total ability of your team value, it also matters if this ability is for example defensive. We get a "defensive rating" like Moi put it. For example, if someone just ran physical drills, his team would get a low defensive and offensive rating and a high physical rating, right? From this it must be safe to assume that a high offensive rating means that you perform better offensively. Right?

So does this mean that it actually -- contrary to what you say -- that the individual creation of a player's ability matters when it comes to how that individual player performs? No, it does not confirm that, it don't confirm that that isn't the case either. It is still unclear, right? But, it confirms that the total offensive ability of a team impacts how the team will perform offensively, right? Correct me if I you think I am wrong!

Hence:
Confirmed fact 2: It matters if a players has high defensive/physical/offensive abilities. Maybe not on an individual level, but at least on a team level.

And this is not all, we learned a third thing too! High defensive ability on a defender has a bigger impact than high defensive ability on a striker or AMC and so forth. Right? Moi say that straight out.

So this adds another level. A team with a striker that has Defensive ability: 100; Physical ability: 50; Offensive ability: 50; and a Central Defender that has Defensive ability: 50; Physical ability: 50; Offensive ability 100 will -- perform worse -- than a team that has the opposite division, ie. a stirker with Defensive ability: 50; Physical ability: 50; Offensive ability: 1000; and a Central Defender that has Defensive ability: 100; Physical ability: 50; Offensive ability 50. Right? The high offensive ability on the striker will matter more than the high offensive ability on the Central Defender. That must be the only conclusion, right?

So:
Confirmed fact 3: How the ability of a player is divided over the categories Defense, Physical and Offense does matters.

What I think is still unclear is two central questions:

(1) does it matter how ability within a category is divided? Like, will a team with for example two strikers that has the shooting ability 100 and the passing ability 50 score on more shots than a team with two strikers that has the shooting ability 50 and the passing ability 100)? We don't know, but I don't think its far fetched that that would be the case.

And to further complicate this, it should be pointed out that the answer to this question could be everything from No it does not matter to Yes it does matter but the impact in the end is marginal or even irrelevant because so many factors matters to Yes it does matter a lot.

(2) does it matter -- on an individual level -- how the ability of a team in a certain area is divided. Like in short, if a team has two Strikers, X and Y, where striker X has the ability 100 all over the board and striker Y has the ability 50 all over the board, will striker X perform better in games than striker Y? I have seen some say that it doesn't matter and some say that it does. I don't know.

What do you guys think about this?