Skoooby

Does anybody have a good system for evaluating players?

What I do is a comparison system. I set up a T-Account on paper and put the incumbent player (player I'm looking to replace) on the left-side column and the challenger (player I'm evaluating for transfer/loan/signing etc) on the right-side column. I then go through five or so key attributes/skills for the position I need them to play and see who is superior in each category and then assign the difference in their numbers to the winner into their column.

For example, if Player A (incumbent) has 10 in Tackling and Player B (challenger) has 8 in Tackling, I put a +2 in the left-column.

At the end I tally up the numbers and see who is net ahead. It's not the best system as outliers can distort the comparison, but it's a rough guide to who is better and can reveal where my existing player might be very weak compared to his peers.

retired_elpata

Why not just use the in game comparison?

retired_meggan14

Theres a little question for you Cleon or anyone else that can help 3 posts above. Think you might have missed it

retired_elpata

I saw it just don't have the time to do it sorry. Alrhough all u have to do is look at some of the better players in your league and judge by that.

retired_meggan14

Well would i be right in saying P-15
C-13
L1-11
L2-10
C-9
CN/S-8?

The only reason i ask is i normally manage in league 1 and above so when you make the fall to ConfN/S it is difficult to gauge how good your squad is because i don't no what a good player is at that level.

retired_elpata

Along them lines yeah

retired_matfritz

Nice post Cleon! Real helpful.

But to turn things around a bit: What stat do you not want high ratings for?

For exampel: For GK I don`t want to see to high stats for eccentricity and tendency to punch.

Does this make any sense or am I way off?

retired_elpata

Hmm, depends on you really. I quite like a tendency to punch slightly high rating of around 13 or something. It helps in difficult situations where he can't catch the ball but still comes out.

retired_matfritz

Ok. So tendency to punch is not necessarily a bad thing?! How about eccentricity? Does a high value here give GKs how behave like Jens Lehmann IRL?

retired_badtzb3b3

Regardless of position, as an LLM, I always try and sign players with 10+ for Passing, Stamina, Work rate and Pace.

I can't always attract them, so I'll usually sacrifice passing before the other 3.