No. Somehow only those along the midfield line positions are counted as midfielders.
Calculation is based on the first position of the player, unless the player has placed into a totally different line.
Eg. ML/AML pushed up to AML position would not get more % in attack, unless the player is played very high up as wide forwards (say originally 4-5F-1, with both ML & MR being ML/AML & MR/AMR. Both wide players will be counted as attackers if formation shows they move forward enough to qualify as 4-3-3); and vice versa for AML/ML that they will be counted as attackers even as AML, unless they move back enough to qualify as midfielders being a ML in a saved formation.
So theoretically, if the engine uses this number as part of the calculation for matches, we should buy ML/AML(R) if our existing attackers are better or buy AML/ML(R) if our existing attackers % are worse if we want to push up the attack %.
Very good experiment and idea there as I never thought about these % in such a way before! (So I will probably prefer buying ML/AML(R) from now on).![]()