Quote Originally Posted by gkassimis View Post
mates we are complaining about the same things many months now. as i have allready wrote to older threads i believe that the problem is that the results are predetermined before they games start. thats probably the reason that you cannot do changes the last 3 minutes before the match. think about it. how can they solve these bugs if the engine decides the result in advance? so there is another question. why they do not change this and let the results be decided during the match. probably they can't handle the data because of the requirements.
Another conspiracy theory. Seriously? If you don't believe that you can influence the result of a match, why are you bothering to play at all? Some elements of how a game will play out will be influenced by what happens before it starts, this is the same IRL - formation, fitness, form etc.

BUT, changing formations, tactics, substitutions during the game do affect play, because otherwise how would a sub get injured/sent off/score a goal if that was all decided before the start?