Hi, looking at the team of the season. Every outfield player is now a gold star (fair enough) apart from my defender! Frans Holwerda who has stayed silver! How is this?

The formulas for the team of the season award and the star calculation is similar but not exactly the same. It is true that often team of the season players end up becoming gold star players, but as you can see this is not always the case.

Star calculation takes into account player match rating adjusted by a “natural” star factor each player has that can make it harder or easier for them to get a star. In order to earn points towards gold, silver and bronze stars the player has to achieve a minimum match rating. When deciding the gold players for example we only compare the points earned towards the gold star rating and ignore the others

World team of the season looks into the same ranges of rating for gold, silver and bronze star, but takes ALL of them into account with different weighs, making it possible for a silver player (like yours) to receive the award instead of a gold player in the same position.

Hopefully I have clarified it a bit instead of confusing you even more :-)

Ok thanks for that! Thought it was a possible bug. :)