Quote Originally Posted by nash123 View Post
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.