JohnShaft

These are just so wrong, year in, year out. They don't seem to have been changed in years. They bare little resemblance to what you'd see in the paper.

Prime example just happened to me:
We're at home, absolutely torturing the opposition. They hardly see the ball. They have 5 shots, three of them from long range and charged down by the defenders.

They have two shots on target, and score from both.

And my keeper gets an 8. An EIGHT. For letting two from two in.

Stuff like this has existed for far too long. In the paper he'd get 6 tops. And never more than a 7.

It's just W R O N G

Nomis07

Did you watch the full match?

Stomalomalus

Was the reason they only had 5shots because your keeper cut out all their crosses?

SWaRFeGa

The ratings you see on FM shouldn't be confused with "newspaper ratings".

Nomis07

I ask because your keeper acting as a sweeper and stopping 3 through balls and collecting 10 crosses, but being caught out by 2 unstoppable shots may add up to an 8 rating. If you don't watch full match you don't actually know how good he is and so you don't actually know if the ratings system doesn't work.

Nomis07

Especially when Lawro and Motty were going on about how good Rooney was against the USA then the Sun gave him a 5 and the Express gave him 8.

JohnShaft

You're all replying like Keepers haven't been rated based on how well the team does for the last five years.

You'll be telling me they react as real life keepers do on penalties next. Or has that not been HOPELESSLY flawed for the last 5 years?

Nomis07

I've drawn a match with the keeper getting 8 and everyone else getting 6 or below so I don't think it is based on how the team does.

Bit of an issue, but basically they still save penalties from time to time. So as I see it if they are going to save it they will move and if they can't save it they don't move, so no big deal.

jake_robinson

I think the ratings seem a bit of a joke on my FMO8 (not updated).
Pretty much every game 80% of my players are rated 7. I've had CB's who been given a near constant 7.00 for 6 seasons. For a player to exceed a 7 they must have either scored or had 2 assists which is completely un life-like because players can have huge impacts in games without actually being the man playing the final pass or tapping the ball in but they will still get a 7.
And you basically have to score a hat-trick to get a 9, so defenders and midfielders have no chance

Nomis07

8.0.0 was pretty awful, if you update it you will see a drastic improvement.