Season 117 - Are you ready?

[Nebu]

Yup, i noticed my ball winning positions getting more yellows in recent seasons too. But with 2 reds in 2 cup matches, conspiracy theories come to mind. Haha cant help it. What Nebu mentioned i have also experienced. In one season, i had a DMC that got 2 reds. But his next season was back to normal, a few yellows but no reds.

I used to have this MC, plays well but was always picking cards, then one day I noticed he has high numbers in aggression - it may have been the highest in the team then.

[talisman]

I used to have this MC, plays well but was always picking cards, then one day I noticed he has high numbers in aggression - it may have been the highest in the team then.

Aggression isn't a white skill for MCs so whatever training regime you give them it will be depreciated over time. My MCs don't have particularly high aggression % compared to those players who have it as a white skill and are higher than the MCs and don't get yellows/reds on any level of the frequency of those unforunate MCs.

I try to attend all my matches, and when players get yellow cards I leave them on the pitch for a while. If they foul again but get a referee lecture or other let off then I'll sub them off. Occasionally they'll get a quick second yellow and thus red, but it's a small risk and you can't really do anything about that. After about 20 minutes or so I'll sub the yellow card holder anyway, and it's amazing the number of times that later in the match the substitute that has come on will also get a yellow card...

Nouvion FC have just picked up a cheap spare MC from the Transfer Market as cover for the midfield positions. There are two players suspended for the next Cup match the 2nd best MC and a lower-Q DC who has already got a higher-Q replacement on the books but would have made a very useful bench player. In the League match this morning the red-carded MC got injured for 4 days so the MC hazard is getting bigger...

[Nebu]

Aggression isn't a white skill for MCs so whatever training regime you give them it will be depreciated over time. My MCs don't have particularly high aggression % compared to those players who have it as a white skill and are higher than the MCs and don't get yellows/reds on any level of the frequency of those unforunate MCs

If you are saying that aggression is not a reason for red or yellow cards. I beg to differ, give the game some credit, T11 is actually run by a high calculator (computer), even the amount of luck you get or suffer from is calculated by a luck percentage attached to a player shown to us as variables in percentiles.

[talisman]

If you are saying that aggression is not a reason for red or yellow cards. I beg to differ, give the game some credit, T11 is actually run by a high calculator (computer), even the amount of luck you get or suffer from is calculated by a luck percentage attached to a player shown to us as variables in percentiles.

I'm saying it's not the ONLY reason for the yellow cards. I believe there is a causal relationship between the field position and the occurrence of the yellow and red cards that are being incurred, as the cards appear no matter which player is occupying the position. I once swapped the two MCs over a half time of a match, one of whom had got a yellow card in the first half. The player without the yellow card got one in the second half. I would need to do this a few more times to get a meaningful statistic, but the number of time that a substitute player has got a yellow card that would have got the original player a red card is telling...

My other point still stands though. I have players with higher (much in some cases) aggression % than my MCs and they don't receive anything like the number of yellow cards that the MCs do. If I looked properly at my match statistics I would say that the MCs get at least as many yellow/red cards as the rest of the side put together.

[Nebu]

I'm saying it's not the ONLY reason for the yellow cards. I believe there is a causal relationship between the field position and the occurrence of the yellow and red cards that are being incurred, as the cards appear no matter which player is occupying the position. I once swapped the two MCs over a half time of a match, one of whom had got a yellow card in the first half. The player without the yellow card got one in the second half. I would need to do this a few more times to get a meaningful statistic, but the number of time that a substitute player has got a yellow card that would have got the original player a red card is telling...

My other point still stands though. I have players with higher (much in some cases) aggression % than my MCs and they don't receive anything like the number of yellow cards that the MCs do. If I looked properly at my match statistics I would say that the MCs get at least as many yellow/red cards as the rest of the side put together.

Okay.