Originally Posted by
vad
I think, you are heavily overestimating the impact of whatever you do on the game. For instance, I have yet to see a game where upon my changing from hard defending to hard attacking (or anything in between) would have any visible effect on the movements of the players. I'm pretty sure that all those settings that we are allowed to specify, are no more than cosmetics for our entertainment.
Equally, everybody who played for a while knows that once in a while there will be a game where the players will just not perform at all. One would think that this is exactly what had to be reflected in their morale, by the very definition of the morale, but it's not the case.
Equally, if you look closely, there's no much relation even between the condition and the result. Again, I'm pretty sure that once in a while everybody has a case where you just did not have time to get to the team between two games on the same day, so the players all had 60-70% condition, but still beat an equal team.
Or, when the player who "broke the leg" and was "stretched from the field", if not replaced, keeps playing just fine, and even occasionally scores. In fact, if anything, you may even notice some boost for your team.
We sure like to tell ourselves that our movements and preparations and training and morale and formations and watching the game and bonus do matter, but I'm pretty sure that if someone ran statistics on big numbers of games, it would be revealed that in the end, they don't. Or maybe some negligible effect.