I believe players are being overrated
just played a 0×0 friendly, and here are the ratings:

G Orlando Carvalho 10.0
D Raul Pessoa 10.0
D Adalberto Nascimento 7.2
D Euclides Ventura 6.8
D Mauro Cotrim 9.1
M Jeremias Gaspar 10.0
M Adílson Cunha 10.0
M Lourenço Guimarães 8.7
A Félix Rios 5.8
A Felipe Bernardes 10.0
A Duarte Araújo Player_yellow_card 4.2

G Inácio Batista 7.1
D Orlando Marinho 9.9
D Sandro Brito 10.0
D Vítor Reis 10.0
D Cristiano Salazar 10.0
D César Lousada 9.7
M Cristóvão Nóbrega Player_yellow_card 10.0
M Tomás Pacheco 10.0
M Manuel Bernardes 5.9
M Fábio Amado 10.0
A Bento Pedroso 9.8

just saw this was addressed in a “suggestion” message.

I was about to talk about the game engine, but i wasn’t sure where to put it (bugs or suggestions) as i’m sure you guys are aware that it needs tweaking. Browsing random matches i found a friendly between Bilbao and Barcelona where Bilbao had 41 shots lol. Im not saying it’s impossible, but it’s kinda unrealistic.
Player’s ratings have already been adressed, and they’re way too high. A couple of 10’s per match wouldn’t be that bad, even though imho it should only be used in some special cases.
Reading the “2 results for the same match” thread i got aware of the 6-0 that turned into a 10-0. Scores like that happen, i’m not denying it, but they’re rare, and usually are between a “Manchester-like” team against amateurs. We only have 2 divisions in each country here, so it seems way off to me.

I’m not sure where your main focus is right now in what matters to improvements, but besides the stuff that takes only a couple of minutes to implement, i think you should focus on the tactics and match engine. That’s what makes a football game great, after all. :)

Just my 2 cents.
Cheers.

yes i agree. i was looking at some fixtures and noticed something quite odd.

in brazil div1 the only CPU team left in that div. i looked at the teams first two games and realized they won both games 12×0 and 10×0. thats kinda far fetched. on top of that, they took 44 shots… now i know it doesn’t compare to my 45shots that i just got this past tick :P but that seems kinda far fetched as well.

i also agree that ratings are definitely either too high or way too low. (from 10.0 to 0.1)

I’d say that those two features (strategies and match engine) are top priority, but take a little longer to be improved. The number of fouls is very low, maybe when we make that more realistic the number of shots will be reduced. By the way, nobody shoots a fould directly to the goal right now. In the meanwhile we’ll try to implement other important but easy features as you mentioned.

Just a funny thing, during our testing we had Albnia as one of the countries, but the players sucked, much more than on MS (skills around 10 or 20). A friendly between an albanian team and a brazilian one ended up 71-0 for the brazilian team :D

About the 12×0 and 10×0 results, AI teams put their best players even on friendlies and their opponents in those matches didn’t do this, that may explain the results. But I agree that less goals would still be more realistic.

Lol just lost 7×0 and even so my keeper got 10.0! (it was 38 shoots, could’ve been 38×0 otherwise :d)
but the other keeper, who didnt took a goal, was given a 8.0 rate

It’s because even though 7 goals were scored, he managed to defend a lot of shots :-)

I know, it’s a bit unrealistic…

I often see whole sets of D’s with ratings over 9, and yet the tackle rate is under 50%. I know DMs are supposed to tackle a lot, but it still makes one wonder. ;)

Adding to the huge number of shots is, on the same team, more than 20 offsides. Imagine 40 shots and 20 offsides for the same team… it’s only 90 minutes, they had to make one good offense every 1 1/2 minutes. Well, my team could do that because i’m an excellent coach, but i’m talking about the bigger picture lol

Hahaha!

I guess our players are too fast.

I’ve just won a game agains Barueri (4 × 0). These are the rates of Barueri:

“Barueri

G Adriano Clementino 9.4 <——-
D Adílio Nunes 8.8 <——-
D Manuel Peralta 10.0 <———
D Rafael Freitas 10.0 <——-
D Graciliano Azambuja 6.8
D Gregório Fogaça 9.9 <——-
M Leandro Antunes 10.0 <——-
M Lucas Fernandes 7.0
M Pedro Paz 10.0 <——-
A Armando Ramalho 8.8 <——-
A Gilberto Sintra 10.0 <——
A Oscar Marques 9.9 <——"

My team, however, got only 6 players above 8.0 ….

That is a bug, no?

I’ve won by 4 x0 my last game and one of my strikers scored 3 goals. His rating? 2.3. My goalkeeper? 5.3 …

I guess the fouls are reducing too much the player ratings. By reducing the number of fouls as we have planned should work.