Live Forever

I dont trust the stats anyway, the player with the best stats dont always do best

Craig0

Personally i look at their stats and what my scout says. Although i agree with Live Forever. I had a striker who was young and didn;t have great finishing/heading etc and he was my top scorer for two seasons.

iajafer

LLM's not about making the game artificially difficult for yourself, it's about being "realistic".

Taipan

Yup, totally agree with Craig & Live. Stats only tell 1/2 the story, and sometimes that story is pure fiction.

Some of my best players over the years have been players whom on paper look like they would only be good enough to shine the boots of the Reserve side.

Cosmo-poof

Although I do not tend to make the game more difficult for myself, that's what I'm playing most of the time. I do not have much time for playing, so in order to see some progress I try to make my game as fast as possible. Looking a lot at stats takes too much time

Sometimes I get a glimpse at the stats, and it gives me some additional flavour when trying to imagine how my topscorer is playing like. For decisions like who is taking free kicks and corners, I actually do consult the stats though.

iajafer

You wouldn't know the Billy Whizz has 16/20 for dribbling and 20/20 for pace, per se, but you'd certainly know that he was a sight better than your DC Dobbin McDonkey at taking on the opposition in a mazy run.

Juanseba

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Live Forever:
I dont trust the stats anyway, the player with the best stats dont always do best <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Agree, that's where the 'compare players' option has really helped in deciding who is better.

In Swedish D2 I found a young 'keeper with not particularly good stats, but he was well recommended by my scouts and when compared, miles apart from my current no 1... he was only 1 'star' worse than one of the Swedish U-21's keepers ! Positioning 8 and reflexes 5 though !

Nobby_McDonald

I don't use compare players. It's like a superior being telling you that Coppedone Indenads is better than Mohammed Hasabiggun for example.

Robbo#

I suppose you can argue player stats are unrealistic in the first place.

Maybe it'd be cool if every player had stats based on what your coaching staff think (some sort of average), so the same players would look slightly different to different staff. So poor LL staff would make more misjudgements, although they'd still obviously know the Mohawk Spice Boy has good crossing, or the Fat Welshie has a powerful shot on him.

Church

Right, I am off to buy the following

Billy Whizz
Dobbin McDonkey
Coppedone Indenads (as he is better than Mohammed Hasabiggun)
Mohawk Spice Boy
the Fat Welshie
and a Goalie from the Swedish 2nd division

Can someone suggest a good left back to fit with this team. I don't want one with good stats obviously.