Subject: Questions & Answers

Basicly i think you are right with your idea of how the strenght is calculated. But i dont think they just take the average of all players secondary skills for calculating the individual strenght. For instance the passing of a midfield has a higher influence on calculation than the passing of the goalkeeper.

Exactly, it can't be as simple as novakoni says. Of course individual strength for the team has to be an average somehow but also needs to be varied by the field position of a player.
But average IS says not all about a match. As the guide tells us it at most determines ball possession and the number of offensive plays a team gets. And as vlady said several times these individual plays are calculated with a contribution of some stats of individual players. Shooting et.al. against Goalkeeping for example. Of course vlady could be wrong but for the time being I believe him.

Well, I really hope you are right - but I am afraid it's not a case.

I know managers that training shoot to defenders and they have pretty high Ind Skill.

I hope that next game engine improvements will be in direction of involving individual plays.
Why there is no assists or number of passes or goal chance passes or crosses or .... in the game statistics ??
I think the reason for that is - there is no individual plays in game engine. Every calculation goes with average values and only the scorer is randomly picked - with largest chance for attacker to be the one.

just wondering why i lost this match

soccer.powerplaymanager.c...

your opponent has a slightly stronger team and had home advantage.

and played at home.

just because the display of individual skill takes into account the average of the whole starting lineup, doesnt mean that this number is used in the engine itself. As a matter of fact it isnt. The team strength indicators are only for your guidance and they are output from the game calculation rather than input.

Oh, that's good and nice to know

But better involving of individual plays is something that missing (my opinion). I really hope it's something that we will see in next months.

When you have good match engine than quality live coverage and match report is piece of cake

So the success depents merely from the player who is in action (and his skills) and the direct opponent (and his skills) ??

in a nutshell

The team strength indicators are only for your guidance

seeing these indicators hardly ever change (except when playing with different players) due to training or playing a different tactic or whatsoever.. it is not really a guidance at all.

I would really love to see a result based on our actions. At the moment I do not have a clue whether I lose/draw matches due to tactic, bad luck, worse players, etc.

You sometimes mention a win/draw/lose percentage when someone whines about his loss.. these percentages are based on info we cannot see, nor need to see.. but it would be nice to know these percentages to know whether we lost due to bad luck or not.

Like in Hockey - there are counter-tactics in soccer...
Well, to my knowledge anyway.

Kinda like Paper-scissors-rock, but on a more advanced level!!

why is my defense rating sooo low even though my TOP players are actually defenders

but my offense rating is pretty high although i only have 1 crappy forward
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are there any penalties for playing with a non-symmetric formation?

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for now just these two questions

isn't there a contradiction in the guide about speed and forwards?

in the guide, player section, you can see in the table that for Forwards the most important skill is speed but in the definition about speed it states that speed is more used by side players

i can understand this for the wide forward but why is it most important secondary skill for a central forward?

Only logical explanation I heard from IzzaX:

- speed for central forward represents his positioning in offensive plays.