Many say Quality is not the factor in this game, even the admin also say that, but...

[nash123]

Quality doesn't matter, if it's close enough. I think, range is around 20-30%. Everything else is just luck and tactic.

Look at this... Chri is a FA member and RL-friend. He is the weakest active manager... but do you think, 5 points to 3.place is only luck? Btw... he made 4 points vs the strongest team, Znan (beside me).
He made 3 points vs 4th (2nd game isn't played)
He made 4 points vs 5th
He made 3 points vs 6th
He made 3 points vs 7th (2nd game isn't played)
and so on.

[Albator1]

Quality doesn't matter, if it's close enough. I think, range is around 20-30%. Everything else is just luck and tactic.

Look at this... Chri is a FA member and RL-friend. He is the weakest active manager... but do you think, 5 points to 3.place is only luck? Btw... he made 4 points vs the strongest team, Znan (beside me).
He made 3 points vs 4th (2nd game isn't played)
He made 4 points vs 5th
He made 3 points vs 6th
He made 3 points vs 7th (2nd game isn't played)
and so on.

In the league i could even agree with you but CL and cup...no.

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[czero]

In my case it's the other way round.
It is very difficult to compete in all three competitions at the same time. Either you perform well in the league or in the cups. Unless you have a significantly better team than the rest of the opponents (sth like 30-40% more in overall quality).

That's why winning the treble is so rare.

[Albator1]

In my case it's the other way round.
It is very difficult to compete in all three competitions at the same time. Either you perform well in the league or in the cups. Unless you have a significantly better team than the rest of the opponents (sth like 30-40% more in overall quality).

You should pay more attention on players performance grades while purchasing new player. I allways chose better performance grades then the abilities.

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[Al Svanberg]

Quality doesn't matter, if it's close enough. I think, range is around 20-30%. Everything else is just luck and tactic.
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Yeah, but who would win, Chris at 120% vs Chris at 90%?

I think ability matters a lot, but so does tactic and preparation.

I think it would be very hard to win like 5+ games of 10 against a extremely good manager with 30% advantage. Sure 1-2 of 10, but 5 would be tough.

The more I play the game, the more I get the impression that skill matter pretty much. Its always hard to compare these things, so much can impact it. But if I look at my MLs for AL FC for example, this is how they has performed:

Season 2: 6 stars -- 34 goals in 42 games; 0,8 GAG
Season 3: 7 stars -- 19 goals in 29 games; 0,65 GAG
Season 4: 6 stars -- 21 goals in 30 games; 0,7 GAG
Season 5: 8 stars -- 28 goals in 29 games; 0,98 GAG
Season 6: 8 stars -- 29 goals in 30 games; 0,99 GAG

And the trend is definitely the same looking at the other high scoring positions for Al FC and HFF. HFF got a very high scoring AMC, I have had the same player there all the time. The No's have been tremendous at 7-8 stars, but during season 2 and 5 he was only 6 stars and the No's did drop pretty much. Both Al FC and HFF only play with a DMR on the right side with an offensive arrow, depending on how many stars this player has, it feels like it really impacts my entire team. When I have an 8 star player there, they score a ton and plays really well. When I have a 6 star player there, my team struggles and that side can be exposed.

I fully agree that a player with 200% speed won't run twice as fast as a player with 100% in speed. There are a bunch of ways to make a 8 star Striker score less than a goal every 5th game or whatever, its not hard. But if you look at like a sample size of a full season -- I definitely think ability matters to a pretty great extent.

With this said, I also think that there is a contiguous affect to ability. Sometimes I have had like a great team but worthless DL, but the DL has scored more than ever. If you train a player hard every day and rest him before game, I also think he will perform worse than if he is trained much less.