What is wrong

[khris]

Do roles get reassigned at the start of each season? It seems to they are since players act different at the start of a new season even though there are no changes to the squad except for the addition of a few academy players.

Isnt the role exactly, is the Power which changes when a new player joins your squad, the Dominance power in this case, which means that a old good performer can be eclipsed by a new signing, if this have more Dominance power assigned, meaning that he'll take more animation slots than other players, that may have, better effectivity ratio % (so, contributive power, what is effectivity in the chances) so a player can be vanished and eclipsed due this.

The game works per lists, it fills spaces basically, so the more dominance power, the better place in the list/tab.

Then, once a match starts the process is, that the game do the 2 lists, to assign the Attack and Defensive animations to some players, the game never simulates defensive style playing, as the settings exist to give the attack chances to 1 team, so, basically, if a player have a lot of dominance power and you control the match, your attack can feel so stuck and you barely will score 1-2 goals.

Its about recognize the roles, and balance the lines and powers...