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What I'm going to talk about is something I've never seen mentioned anywhere on forums, guides etc. so I decided to open this thread just for fun.
And it could perhaps sound absurd, but I would like to hear your opinion anyway.
Ok so let me explain my point.
Let's say you have this lineup:
See player number 39?
You are tasked with deciding who is gonna play on that position and you have two choices, player 39 himself or player 7:
Now, I'll give you my choice, I'd choose 39, because he fits the wing play system better. I want someone who can deliver aerial passes there.
I think this is pretty straightforward.
Now, hear me out.
If I pick player 7, my strikers will score me.
Yes. That's what you heard. He might suck at aerial passing, but his aura will make the strikers score more.
But aura aside I'll explain why — and that's the part where you might disagree.
I believe that, for every match, your team each attribute carries an average value (apart from the individual attributes for each player).
So, if you have two strikers A and B, they will score more when 7 plays in comparison with whenever 39 plays, because 7 has more shooting and somehow boosts the entire team in regards to shooting.
Similarly, if 39 plays, the entire team gets a boost in aerial passing.
This also works for some other attributes I observed like passing, ball control and tackling.
I'll even give another example to clearly get my point across.
Let's say you are playing some random formation with 2 strikers, and both strikers have 8 shooting. And you also have 3 totally random defenders with 9 tackling and 0 in all other attributes (doesn't matter).
There is somebody halfway around the world who has a team identical to yours. Exactly the same strikers with 8 shooting and same defenders. But this time all three defenders have 9 tackling and also 10 shooting (unrealistic situation, but just imagine it for a second).
Well you know what's on my mind. The second team will score more despite the strikers being identical. Because they are being aided by those unrealistic defenders!
You can call me crazy if you want, but that's what I noticed the most when watching after watching some 2d/3d managerzone footage.
Once, I shared this "theory" with a person and then I was immediately asked if a striker with 10 keeping would impact keeper performance. Well, I have to say I'm not sure, it's hard to test. But at first I said 'yes'. This could even explain why some keepers are such wankers when it comes to stopping shots.
And then there is speed/stamina, never noticed any difference for those.
And finally, play intelligence and experience boosts other attributes, according to Managerzone holy bible. So, the more PI and XP a player has, the higher the true value of his skills would be, in such a way that a 10 PI player could dramatically impact the entire team.
And that also leads us to a well known fact: players with high amount of total balls are incredibly impactful. Most experienced and NT managers know about that, but I never seen anyone explaining why. It's always "yeah let's play this guy with 69 total balls because he has so many balls", but no explanation was ever given. fumin' right?
So, that's it...
And I have some stories too.
When I was a newbie, I was trying to play wing play for the first time.
We know that wing play is basically a bunch of stupid defenders that get red-carded all the time spamming aerial passing to a braindead winger. So, the only two things your defenders and cdms know how to do when you choose such a system are tackle + aerial passing or intercept pass + aerial passing.
So, I thought: cool, I just need to give my defenders and cdms aerial passing.
But the harsh reality is: I failed miserably. Because my entire midfield lacked aerial passing. And, once I corrected that, things started working.
The thing is... most of the aerial passes will come from the cdms and defenders (especially the ones closer to the winger). However, players that won't even touch the ball that much or deliver aerial passes during the match also make a difference.
In other words, for unknown reasons, if those players who rarely engage in aerial passing are good at aerial passing, it makes your defenders, who are actively using them, perform them better.
And let's not talk about wing play only. I noticed the same for short passing. Once I used a 10 short passing dude. The impact he had on my team was beyond belief. I mean, I was expecting to be good at passing, but even my shitty strikers with 1, 2 passing started passing like Michael Laudrup and Iniesta had a kid. (Ok this is a stretch, but they were really passing better.)
Also noticed this conspiracy theory kicking in when taking a look at Malaysia National Team, both senior and U21. I can't share any players attributes but it's so clear... the stuff that happens... when you change some stuff here and there... I'm just gonna say that Malaysia U21 lacks decent players on all positions, but somehow it's doing very well on this competition (playing against some stacked squads):
The biggest reason is because the strikers are incredibly efficient (and do I need to explain why? if you understood this thread, you know why!)
I'm tired of writing
