Quote Originally Posted by talisman View Post
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.